Sloane MSS. 4178, letter 519.
Harl. MSS. 646.
One of the poems written at the time begins:—
The Duke is dead!—and we are rid of strife
By Felton's hand that took away his life.
Another declares of his assassin:—
He shall sit next to Brutus!
The fine, fixed originally at £2000, was mitigated, and the corporal punishment remitted, at the desire of the Bishop of London.
The MS. letter giving this account observes, that the words concerning his majesty were not read in open court, but only those relating to the duke and Felton.
Clarendon notices that Felton was "of a gentleman's family in Suffolk, of good fortune and reputation." I find that during his confinement, the Earl and Countess of Arundel, and Lord Maltravers, their son, "he being of their blood," says the letter-writer, continually visited him, gave many proofs of their friendship, and brought his "winding-sheet," for to the last they attempted to save him from being hung in chains: they did not succeed.
Rushworth, vol. i. 638.