The Fatall houre being come that my Lord marquesse de= ceased, your Petitioner entreated them that were present to suffer noe man to touch his Bodye vntill that he retourned to see it opened, for then he protested earnestlye, that all the time of his Sicknes, he iudged himselfe to be poysoned, and in all con= sultacions vrged Antidotes to be administred. But this poyson was such and soe farre gon, that none could helpe. Neuerthelesse to haue the matter concealed Buckinghams Folkes would haue had him buryed that same daye night in Westminster Church, & the Ceremonyes of the Buriall to be made afterwards, saying that such delicate bodyes as his could not be longe kept. But his Freindes taking hold of the caveat given them by your Petitioner refused soe to doe, and replyed that they would haue him (as became him) buryed in Scottland in his owne Chappell, where his Ancestors haue bine buyed about these 400: yeeres agoe, and that his Bodye must be first visited by his Phisitions. /

Noe sooner was he dead, when the force of the Poyson had overcome the Forces of his Bodye, but it began to swell in such sort, that his thighes were as bigg as sixe times the naturall Proporcion his Bellye became as bigg as the bellye of an Oxe, his Armes as Bige, as the naturall quantitye of his thighes, his Necke soe broade as his Shoulders, his Cheekes over the topp of his Nose, that his Nose could not be seene or extingui shed, the Skynne of his Forehead over his Eyes, and the same skinne with all the rest of the skynne of his head two fingers highe swelled, his haire of his beard Eyebrowes & head soe farre distant one from another as if an hundred had bine taken out betwixt everye one, and when one did touch his haire it came awaye with the Skynne as easilye as if one had pulled hay out of A heape of haye, He was all over his breast Necke, Shoulders and Armes blistered with Blisters as bigge as ones Fist, with Blisters I saye of sixe divers colours full of Waters of the same colours, some whit, some Blacke, some red, some yellowe, some greene, some blewe, and that as well within his bodye as without. Allsoe the Carities of his Liver greene, his Stomacke in some places a litle purpurated, with a blewish calamine matter adheringe to the sides of it, his mouthe and Nose fominge bloude mixt with Froth of divers collors a yard high

your Petitioner being sent for to come visitt his Bodye, and his Servants all flocking about him, sayinge, see, see pre= sentlye weepinge said he was poysoned, and that it was a thing not to be suffered. Moreover he said that albeit his speech might cost him his liffe, yet seeing his sorrowe had extorted that speech out of him, hee would make it manifest, and would haue a Iury of Phisitians present. Some of my Lord Marquesse of Hameltons Freindes saide, wee must send to my Lord duke that hee maye send his Phisitians. But your Petitioner replyed, what haue wee to do with the dukes Phisitians. Let vs haue indifferent men. Captaine Hamelton hearinge your Petitioner soe boldlye take take excepcions at Buckingham, and iudging that he had good reason for what he had spoken, said, for all that let vs send to the duke, and signifye that they all whoe see the Marquesses body both Phisitions and Surgions and others, thinke that he is poysoned, & that his Freindes desire more Phisicons out of the Colledge of London besides the dukes Phisitions to beare wittnes in what case the marquesses bodye is in, and then if the dukes conscience be guiltie (said the Captaine) it will shewe itself, which indeed it did, For the duke being advertised thereof, sent for his owne Phisicions and others out of London, whom he caused first to be brought to him before they went to see the marquesses bodye giveinge them his direccions in these wordes. My masters there is A bruite spread abroade that the marquesse of Hamelton is poysoned. Goe and see, but beware what you speake of Poyson (which he said in A threatning forme of deliverye) for nowe everye Nobleman that dyeth must be poysoned. If his conscience had not bine guilty should he not haue comaunded the Phisitions to enquire by all meanes possible, and make it knowne rather then to suppresse the speech of the poysoninge. These Phisitions being come, your Petitioner with the one hand leading doctor More to the Table wher the marquesses bodye was layd to be opened, and with the other hand throwing of the Clothes from the Bodye, said to him, looke you heerevpon this pittifull spectacle. At the sight whereof doctor Moore lifting vpp both his handes, and his Hatt, and his eyes to the Heavens astonished, said Iesus blesse mee, I never sawe the like I cannot knowe him, I cannot distinguish A Face vppon him, And in like manner all the rest of the doctors and allsoe the Surgions affirmed that they never sawe the like, albeit they had travelled and practised throughe the greatest parte of Europe, Onlye one that sawe my Lord of Southamptons bodye opened in Holland (which Lord was allsoe one of Buckinghams opposites) said that my Lord of Southamptons bodye was blistered all within the breast as my Lord Marquesses was. doctor Lister one of my Lord of Buckinghams Creatures, seeing doctor Moore and others soe amazed at the sight of my Lords Bodye, drewe first him aside, and then the others one after another, and whispered them in the Eare to silence them. Where vpon manye went awaye without speaking one word, the others whoe remayned acknowledged those accidents of the dead bodye could not be without poyson, but they said the could not know how such A subtile art of poysoning could be brought into England your Petitioner replying that monye could bringe both the Arte and the Artist from the farthest partes of the world into England. From whence since your Petitioner daparted, hee hath conferred with the skillfullest Pestmakers that could be found, whoe visitt the bodys of those that dye, of the Venim of the Pest, They all admire the discripcion of my Lord Marquesses bodye, and testifye that never anye of the Pest haue such accidents, but Carbuncles, bubons, or the Spotts, noe such huge blisters with waters, and such huge vnifirme swellinge to such dimensities about sixe tymes the naturall proportion proportion. But he hath mett with some whoe haue practised the poysoning of doggs, to trye the forces of some Antidotes, & they haue found that some poysonns haue made theire doggs sicke for A Fortnight or more, without anye swelling, vntill they were dead, and then they swelled above measure, and became blistered with waters of divers colors, and the haire came awaye with the skynne when it was touched

The Phisitions then whoe remayned were willing to tes= tifye with their owne hand written that my Lord marquesse was poy soned, but your Petitioner tould them it was not needfull, seeing wee must attend Gods leasure to discover the Author, the matter being soe apparent and soe manye hundreds having seene his body to wittnes it, for the dores were kept open for everye man to behold & to be wittnes whoe would, The duke of Buckingham making some counterfeited shewe of Sorrowe to men of great quallitie, found noe other shift to divert the suspicion of the poysoning of the marquesse from himselfe, but to laye it vppon his master the King, say= inge that the marquesse for his person, Spirritt and carriage, was such, that he was borne worthye to raigne, but the Kinge his master hated him to deathe, because he had A Spirritt too much for the Comon wealth, whereby the duke shewed himselfe noe good sub= iecte of the kings, whoe made the kings humor to be tyrannicall & the King a bloudthirstie murtherer, and A most vild dissembler, haueing heaped soe manye honors daylye vpon the marquesse even to the verye last, making him Lord high Steward of his majesties house and Iudge of the Verge Court, whom he had made before vic roye of Scotland, for the time of Parlyament in Scotland, Earle of Cambridge, A Privye Counsellor in England, & Knight of the Garter, as yf he had raysed him to all these honors, that the murtheringe of him might be the lesse suspected to proceed from him

The Kings nature hath bine allwayes observed to bee soe gratious and soe free harted to everye one, that he would neuer haue wished the Marquesse anye harme, vnlesse that Buckingham had put great feares & iealousies in his mynde, for yf anye other had done it, he would haue acquainted his Favorite therewith, & then was it Buckinghams dutie to remove from the Kinge such sinister conceipts of the marquesse, as the Marquesse hath often done for Buckingham, vpholding him in all occasions, & keeping the Kinge from giving waye to introduce anye other Favorite Wherefore Buckingham in that divercion of that cryme from himselfe hath not onlye made the Kinge, but allsoe himselfe guiltie of the marquesses death, But Buckinghams Falshood & evill intention long before was rightlye discouered, when he did what he could to make the Earle of Nithesdale and my Lord Gordon both neere kinsmen to my Lord Marquesse soe incensed at him, that they had likelye all three killed one another, yf it had not bine that my Lord Marquesse by his wisdome did let them all knowe howe they were abused, yf anye dissimulation be greater then Buckinghams lett anye man iudge, For when my Lord Marquesses Bodye was to be transported from whit hall to his house at Bishopsgate, Buckingham came out mufled and furred in his Coache, giving out that he was sicke sicke for sorrowe of my Lord marquesses deathe, But soe soone as he went to his house out of London before his Cominge to the kinge he triumphed and deminered with his Faction soe excessively as yf he had gayned some greate victorye, & the next daye comming to the kinge, put on A most lamentable & mournefull countennance for the deathe of the Marquesse of Hamelton, Noe greater victorye could he have gott to his Mynde then to haue distroyed that man, who could and would haue fetched his head from his Shoulders, yf he had out lived kinge Iames, to have knowne his carriage in the poysoning him in his sicknes, wherefore he thought it necessarye to remove the marquesse before hand, The same daye that my Lord marquesse dyed, Buckingham sent my Lord marquesse his sonne out of the towne keeping him as A Prisoner, that none could haue private conference with him, vntill his mariage of Buckinghams Neece was compleat, but all wayes either my Lord Denbighe, or my Lady Denbighe or my Lord of Buckingham or the Countesse of Buckingham, or the Dutchesse of Buckingham was present, that none could lett him vnderstand how his Father was mur= thered, yea your Petitioner himselfe when he went to see him within some fewe daies after his Fathers death, was intreated not to tell him of the poysoning of his Father, which he did conceale at his first mee= tinge, because their sorrowe was too recent, Neither would Buckingham suffer the younge Lord to goe into Scottland to his Fathers funeralls and to take order with his Freindes concerninge his Fathers estate, for feare that their intended marriage should be overthrowne. This Captivitye of the Lord Marquesse lasted soe longe vntill that Buckingham caused his Majestye King Charles to take the young Lord with himselfe & Buckingham into Saint Iames Parke, discharging all others to follow them & there to perswade and vrge the young Lord without anye more delay to accomplish his marriage with Buckinghams Neece, which instantlye was performed, soe that Buckingham trusteth & presumeth, that albeit the young Lord should vnderstand how his Father was poysoned by his meanes, yet being marryed to his Neece, should not stirr to revenge it. To all which is observed before, it is worthie to be added, that the bruite went thro throughe London long before my Lord Duke of Richmonds deathe, or his Brothers, or my Lord of Southamptons, or the Marquesses that all the Noblemen that were not of Buckinghams faction should be poysoned, & soe removed out of his waye, Allsoe A Paper was found in kingstreete about the tyme of the Duke of Richmonds death, where in the names of all those Noblemen whoe haue dyed since were ex= pressed, and your Petitioners name allsoe sett next to the Lord Marqus of Hameltons name, with these wordes to embalme him. This paper was brought him by my Lord Oldbarres daughter cosen germaine to the marquesse. Likewise A Mountebanke about that time was great lye countenaunced by the Duke of Buckingham, & by his meanes procured lettres Patents & recommendacion from the kinge to practise his skill throgh all England whoe comming to London, offered to sell poysons to kill men or Beasts within a yeare, or halfe yeare, or two yeares, or a month or two, or what tyme prefixed anye man desired, in such sorte that they could not be helped nor discovered, Moreover the Christmas before my Lord marquesse his death one of the Princes Footemen saide That some of the great ones at Courte had gotten poyson in his bellye but he could not tell whoe it was

Heere your honors considering the premisses of my Lord of Buckingham his ambitious and most vindicative nature, his frequent quarrells with with my Lord marquesse after soe manye reconciliacions, his threat= ning of him, his threatning of the Phisitions to speake of poyson, his triumphinge after my Lord marquesses death, his deteyninge of his Sonne, allmost as A Prisoner vntill the Marriage compleate with his Neece, the preceeding bruite of poysoning Buckinghams Adversaryes, the paper of their names found with sufficient intimation of their deathe by the conclusicon of the word Embalminge, the poyson monger mounte= bancke graced by Buckingham, maye suffice for ground to take him & tor= ture him, yf he were A private man, And heerein your Petitioner most humblye & most earnestlye demaundeth Iustice against that Traytor, seeing by Act of Parlyament it is made Treason to conspire the death of a privye Councellor, Out of this declaracion Interrogatories maye be drawne for examination of wittnesses, wherein more is discovered to begin withall, then was laid open at the beginning of the discoverye of the poysoninge of Sir Thomas Ouerbuye /

❀ Conserning the poyso= ninge of Kinge Iames of happye memory King of greate Brittaine &c ❀ The duke of Buckingham being in Spaine advertised by letters howe that the kinge began to censure him in his absence freelye, and that manye spoke boldlye to the Kinge against him, and how the Kinge had intelligence from Spaine of his vnworthie carriage in Spaine, & how the Marquesse Hamelton vpon the suddaine newes of the Princes departure had noblie reprehended the Kinge for sending the Prince with such a young Man without experience, and in such A private & suddaine manner without acquainteing the Nobillitye or Councell therewith, wrote A verye bitter Letter to the Marquesse of Hamelton, conceaved newe ambitious courses of his owne, and vsed all the Devises he could to disgust the Princes mynde of the Matche with Spaine soe farr intended by the kinge, made hast home, where when he came, he soe carryed himselfe that whatsoeuer the kinge comaunded in his Bed-Chamber, he controwlled in the next Chamber, yea a receaved packetts to the king from forraine Princes, & dispatched Answeres without acquainting the kinge therewith not in a great tyme there= after, whereat perceaving the king highlye offended, & that the kings mynde was beginning to alter towards him, suffering him to bee quarelled and affronted in his majesties presence & observing that the kinge receaved my Lord of Bristall to bee A rodd for him, vrging daylye his dispatch for Fraunce, and expecting the Earle of Gondomar his coming into England in his absence, feared much that that the Earle of Gondomar, whoe as it seemed was greatlye esteemed & wonderfullye credited by the Kinge, would second my Lord of Bristalls accusations against him, He knowing allsoe that the kinge had vowed that in dispight of all the Divells of hell he would bring the Spanish matche about againe, and that the Marquesse of Enechosa had given the kinge badd impressions of him: By whose Articles of accusations of him the kinge himselfe had examined some of the Nobillitie and privye Councell, & found out in the examinacion that Buckingham had said after his comming from Spaine. That the king was an old man, it was now tyme for him to be at his rest, and to be confined to some Parke, to passe the rest of his time in hunting, and the Prince to be crowned. The more the kinge vrged him to be gone to Fraunce the more shifts he made to stay, for he did evidentlye see the king was fullye resolved to ridd himselfe of the oppresion wherein he held him /

The kinge being sicke of A tertian Ague & that in the springe, which was of it selfe never found deadlye. The Duke tooke his opportunitie when all the kings Doctors were at Dinner, vpon the mundaye before the kinge dyed, without their knowledge or consent, offered a whit powder powder to the kinge to take, the which the kinge longe time refused, but overcome by his flatteringe oppertunitie, at length tooke itt, dranke it in whit wine, and ymediatlye became worse and worse falling into manye soundings and paynes or violent Fluxes of the Bellye, soe tormenting that his majestye cryed out alowd O this whit powder this whit Powder, would to God I had never taking it, it will cost mee my liffe, In like manner the Countisse of Buckingham my Lorde of Buckinghams Mother vpon the Frydaye thereafter, the Phisicions allsoe being absent & at dinner, & not made acquainted with her doings, applyed A Plaster to the Kings harte & breast, wherevpon his majestye grewe fainte, shorte breathed & in greate agonie. Some of the Phisitians after dinner re= tourned to see the kinge, by the offensive smell of the Plaster, perceaved some= thinge to be about the kinge hurtfull vnto him, & searched what it could be, found it out, & exclaymed that the kinge was poysoned. Then Buckingham entering comaunded the Phisicons out of the Roome, caused one to be comitted prisoner to his owne Chamber, and another to remove from Courte, quarrelled with others of the kings servants in the sicke kings owne presence, soe farre that he offered to drawe his sworde against them in the Kings sighte, And Buckinghams mother kneeling before the kinge with A brazen face cryed out Iustice Iustice Sir I demaund Iustice of your majestye, The kinge asking her for what? shee answered for that which their lives is noe suffi= cient satisfaccion, for saying that my Sonne and I haue poysoned your majestye, Poysoned mee said the kinge, with that he turninge himselfe sounded, The Sunday thereafter the king dyed, & Buckingham desired the Phisicians whoe attended the kinge to signe with their hands, writts, A testimonye, that the Powder which he gave the kinge was a good suffi= cient and safe medicine, which they refused to doe; Buckinghams Creatures did spread abroad A rumor in London that Buckingham was soe sorrie at the kings deathe, that he would haue dyed, that he would haue killed him= selfe yf they had not hindered him, which your Petitioner purposelye in= quired of them that were neere him at that time, whoe said, that neither in the time of the kings sicknes, nor after his deathe, hee was any more moued then yf there had neither happened either sicknes or deathe to the kinge. One daye when the kinge was in great extremitie, hee rode post to London to pursue his sister in lawe, to haue her stand in sack Clothe at Paules for Adulterye, Another time in the kings Agony, he was busie contriving & concluding a maryage for one of his cosens, yme= diatlye after the kings death, the Phisitian which was comaunded to his Chamber was sett at libertie with A Caveat to hold his Peace, the others threatned if they kept not good tonges in their heades. But in the meane tyme the kings Bodye and head swelled aboue measures, his haire with the skinne of his head stucke to the Pillowe, his nayles became loose vpon his Fingers and Toes, your Petitioner needeth to saye noe more to vnder= standing men. Onlye hee one thinge he beseecheth, that taking the traytor whoe ought to be taken, without anye feare of his greatnes the other matters be examined, the Accessaries with the guiltie punished/

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