vol. viii.]

The inquiry lasted till June, and much was learnt from those who had
not Throgmorton's courage. Matters came out implicating Lord Bray and
Lord Delaware. Lord Bray was arrested and examined; Lord Delaware was
tried and found guilty. But they were powerful, and had powerful
friends.[567] The court were forced to content themselves with smaller
game. Successive batches of the conspirators were despatched, as their
confessions were exhausted or despaired of. Throgmorton, silent to the
last, was sentenced on the 21st of April, and suffered on the 28th. On
the 19th of May, Captain Stanton was hanged; on the 2nd of June,
Derick followed--his cowardice had not saved him--with Rosey and
Bedyll. On the 7th of July, Sir Henry Peckham was disposed of, and
with him John Daniel, who was guilty, if not of worse, yet of having
concealed machinations dangerous to the state.[568]

[Footnote 567: Swift to Lord Shrewsbury: Ibid.,
vol. i.; Machyn's _Diary_.]

[Footnote 568: Daniel was supposed, like
Throgmorton, to know more than he had told; and to
quicken his confession he was confined in a
dungeon, of which he has left his own description
in an appeal to the mercy of the commissioners. "I
beseech your honours be good to me," he wrote, "for
I am a sick man, laid here in a dungeon where I am
fain to do ---- and ---- in the place that I do lie
in, and if I do lie here all this night, I think I
shall not be alive to-morrow. Mr. Binifield
[perhaps an examiner] as he cometh to me is ready
to cast his gorge, so he saith; and I have no light
all day so much as to see my hands perfectly. Pity
me, for God's sake--Your honours' footstool, John
Daniel. Good Master of the House, good Mr.
Controller, good Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, good Mr.
Englefield, good Mr. Waldegrave!"

Again in another letter, he writes:--

"For God's sake, be my honourable masters, and rid
me out of this dungeon, for I do lie here a man
sore pained with the stone, and among the newts and
spiders. For the love of God