Letter to James after his Condemnation Sir Walter Raleigh Noah Millstone Principal Investigator MPESE Sebastiaan Verweij Co-Investigator MPESE Richard Bell Research Associate Victoria Anker BRIHC Research Impact Fellow Mike Jones Research Software Engineer Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE) 2017 United Kingdom London British Library Additional MS 22601

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1604 English Latin letter Sir Walter Ralegh

Enuseth the lettre of Sir Walter Rawleigh to the Kinge after his Arraignment

The life which I had moste mighty Prince the lawe hath taken from me, and I am nowe but the same Earth & duste, of whiche I was made: yf my offence had any quantity with your Majesties vnmea= =surable goodnes, I mighte hope; but yet your great Majestie must Iudge both & not I. Anie bloud, gentility, birth or Estate I haue none, no not so muche as a beinge, no not so muche as vita plante : I haue only a penitent Sowle in a bodie of Iron whiche moueth towards the Loadestone of death, and cannot be with -held from touchinge it, except your Majesties mercy turne the point towards me which expelleth it. Lost I am for hearinge a vaine man, for hearinge only, and neuer belieuinge or acceptinge, and so little accompt I made of that speache of his which was my condemnation, as the liuinge God doth truly witnes yt I neuer remembred any suche thinge vntill it was at my triall obiected a= =gainst me: So did he repaye my Care, who cared to make him good, which I see no care of man can effect. But for my offence to him yt layed this heauy burthen on me miserable and vnfortu= =nate wretch yt I am, but not for louinge you my Soueraigne, hath God layed this sorrowe on me: For God knoweth, with whomme I may not dissemble, that I honored, your Majestie by fame, and loued & a admired your Majesty by knowledge; so as whither I dy or liue, your Majesties true and louinge Seruaunt I will die or liue. If I nowe write what doth not become me? (moste mercifull Prince) vouchesaue to ascribe it to the Counsell of a dead hart which sorrow hath broken: but the more my miserie is, the more is your Majesties great mercy, if you please to behold it; and the less I can deserue, the more liberall is your guifte: God only, your Majesty shall immitate herein, both by giuinge freely to suche a one, from whomme there can be no retribution, but only a desire to paie againe a lent life with the same greate loue which the same great goodnes shall pleas to bestowe it. This beinge the first lettre which euer your Majesty receiued from a dead man, I humbly submitt my selfe to the will of my supreame Lorde and shall willingly & paciently suffer, whatso= =euer shall please your Majesty to laye on me./