her,
or we should trouble ourselves in this Court with him? which I protest
were sufficient for the greatest Cardinal in Rome, if in this case he
should be tried. No, Mr. Garnet, it is not for your cause that you are
called hither, but to testify to the world the foulness of your fact,
the errors of your religion," etc. Lord Salisbury's Speech at the Trial.
(Gerard). When at the trial, rebuking Garnet for untruthfulness in his
previous examination before the Council, Salisbury said: "You stiffly
denied it upon your soul, reiterating it with so many detestable
execrations, _as our hair stood upright_" (Jardine).]

[Footnote 32: The Act for the Attainder of the Conspirators ("Statutes
of the Realm," 3 James I., c. 2). Coke himself characterized the treason
at the trial as "beyond all examples, whether in fact or fiction, even
of the tragic poets who did beat their wits to represent the most
fearful and horrible murders." And in the prayer to be used in the
Anniversary Service for the Fifth of November it is described as having
been attempted "in a most barbarous and savage manner, beyond the
examples of former ages. From this unnatural conspiracy, not our merit,
but Thy mercy; not our foresight, but Thy providence, delivered us,"
etc.]

[Footnote 33: In the previous century, in a case where a more severe
penalty was desired to be inflicted, the offender was, by Act of
Parliament, publicly _boiled alive_ ("Statutes of the Realm," 22 Henry
VIII., c. 9).]

[Footnote 34: Coke worked hard for some months in thoroughly preparing
the evidence for the trial, so that little would escape him. As he wrote
to Salisbury: "If your lordship knew what pains have been taken herein,
your lordship would pity the old attorney" (Hatfield MSS.).]

[Footnote 35: Vavasour's falsehood respecting Mrs. Tresham had nothing
to do with the treason. Coke seems to mention Vavasour's guilt as if
antecedent to the writing of the letter to Salisbury.]

[Footnote 36: This work is merely the identification of the writer of
the anonymous letter only, and makes no attempt to answer the much more
difficult question of what the arrangement was between Salisbury and
Monteagle, or between Monteagle and Tresham, respecting the sending of
the letter; but with regard to Coke, it is unlikely, from what is known
of their intercourse and their frequent differences in court, that he
would be admitted to any particular confidence with Salisbury in the
matter.]

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