Footnote 560: The Constable to Noailles, Feb. 7: Ambassades, vol. v.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 561: De leur prêtur un peu d'espaule.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 562: Wotton to the Queen: French MSS., bundle 13.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 563: Although they be promised by your means to move the queen's majesty to be gracious lady to them, they know that it is not so meant; but to suck out of others all ye may, and yet thereby to have no mercy shewed.—Thomas White to the Council: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. vii.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 564: Robert Swift to Lord Shrewsbury: Lodge's Illustrations, vol. i.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 565: Walpole's Deposition: MS. Lodge's Illustrations, vol. viii.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 566: Peckham's Confession: MS. Lodge's Illustrations, vol. viii.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 567: Swift to Lord Shrewsbury: Ibid., vol. i.; Machyn's Diary.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 568: Daniel was supposed, like Throgmorton, to know more than he had told; and to quicken his confession he was confined in a dungeon, of which he has left his own description in an appeal to the mercy of the commissioners. "I beseech your honours be good to me," he wrote, "for I am a sick man, laid here in a dungeon where I am fain to do —— and —— in the place that I do lie in, and if I do lie here all this night, I think I shall not be alive to-morrow. Mr. Binifield [perhaps an examiner] as he cometh to me is ready to cast his gorge, so he saith; and I have no light all day so much as to see my hands perfectly. Pity me, for God's sake—Your honours' footstool, John Daniel. Good Master of the House, good Mr. Controller, good Mr. Vice-Chamberlain, good Mr. Englefield, good Mr. Waldegrave!"
Again in another letter, he writes:—