am, your main accuser,
must come to accuse you. You say he hath retracted: I say, many
particulars are not retracted. What the validity of all this is,
is merely left to the jury. Let me ask you this, If my lord
Cobham will say you were the only instigator of him to proceed
in the treason, dare you put yourself on this?

RALEIGH--If he will speak it before God and the king, that ever
I knew of Arabella's matter or the money out of Spain, or of the
surprizing treason; I put myself on it, God's will and the
king's be done with me.

LORD H. HOWARD--How! If he speak things equivalent to that you
have said?

RALEIGH--Yes, in the main point.

LORD CECIL--If he say, you have been the instigator of him to
deal with the Spanish king, had not the Council cause to draw
you hither?

RALEIGH--I put myself on it.

LORD CECIL--Then, sir Walter, call upon God and prepare
yourself; for I do verily believe that my lords will prove this.
Excepting your faults (I call them no worse), by God I am your
friend. The heat and passion in you, and the Attorney's zeal in
the king's service, make me speak this.

RALEIGH--Whosoever is the workman, it is reason he should give
an account of his work to his workmaster. But let it be proved
that he acquainted me with any of his conferences with Aremberg:
he would surely have given me some account.

LORD CECIL--That follows not: if I set you on work, and you give
me no account, am I therefore innocent?

ATTORNEY--For the lady Arabella, I said she was never
acquainted with the matter. Now that Raleigh had conference in
all these treasons, it is manifest. The jury hath heard the
matter. There is one Dyer, a pilot, that being in Lisbon met
with a Portugal gentleman, who asked him if the king of England
was crowned yet: to whom he answered, 'I think not yet, but he
shall be shortly.' Nay, saith the Portugal, that shall never be,
for his throat will be cut by Don Raleigh and Don Cobham before
he be crowned.

_Dyer_ was called and sworn, and delivered this evidence.

DYER--I came to a merchant's house in Lisbon, to see a boy that
I had there; there came a gentleman into the house, and
enquiring what countryman I was, I said, an Englishman.
Whereupon he asked me, if the king was crowned? And I answered,
No, but that I hoped he sho