"For God's sake, be my honourable masters, and rid me out of this dungeon, for I do lie here a man sore pained with the stone, and among the newts and spiders. For the love of God, I ask it; for I do all things in the place that I do lie in. My good and honourable masters, for God's sake, be good to me, and consider that I did never give my consent to do no evil. Good Mr. Englefield, consider my meaning, and be good master to me, and consider the place I lie in, and the pain of the stone."—Daniel's Confessions: MS. Mary, Domestic, vol. viii.
The effect, however, apparently was what the examiners desired. A note of the council remains to the effect that—
"Daniel being yesterday removed, to a worse lodging, beginneth this day to be more open and plain than he hath been, whereby we perceive he knoweth all, and we trust and think verily he will utter the same."—Privy Council Minutes, Ibid.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 569: Estant en continuel fureur de ne pouvoir jouir de la présence de son mary ny de l'amour de son peuple, et dans une fort grande peur d'estre offensée de sa propre vie par aulcungs des siens.—Noailles to the King of France, May 7: Ambassades, vol. v.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 570: Same to Montmorency, April 21: Ibid.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 571: Foxe. This hideous story was challenged by Harding, the controversialist, in the next reign. He was unfortunate in calling attention to it, for the case was inquired into, and the account was found too certainly true.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 572: Machyn's Diary.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 573: Machyn.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 574: Ibid.[(Back to Main Text)]
Footnote 575: See their stories: Foxe, vol. viii.[(Back to Main Text)]