Ralegh. "No, my lord."
Cecil. "Was it one of the books which was left to me or my brother?"
Ralegh. "I took it out of the study in my Lord-Treasurer's house in the Strand."
Then Cecil explained that after his father's death Ralegh was allowed to search in the library for cosmo-graphical descriptions of the Indies. Again he referred to his great love for Ralegh, and said he thought it a little unkindly done on Sir Walter's part to remove the book without his knowledge. It was a book in manuscript on which the Lord-Treasurer had written, "This is the book of Robert Snagg." Brooke burned it; the most was made of this incident.
Popham asked, "Wherefore should this book be burnt?"
Ralegh. "I burned it not."
Serjeant Philips. "You presented your friend with it when he was discontented. If it had been before the queen's death it had been a less matter, but you gave it him presently when he came from the king, which was the time of his discontentment."
Ralegh. "Here is a book supposed to be treasonable; I never read it, commended it, or delivered it, nor urged it."
Coke. "Why, this is cunning."
Ralegh. "Everything that doth make for me is cunning, and everything that maketh against me is probable."