[31] Hatfield Papers.
[32] State Papers, Foreign.
[33] Hatfield Papers, part i., p. 88.
[34] Desiderata Curiosa.
[35] King Edward’s Journal, printed in Burnet.
[36] There is, however, a memorandum in the Cotton MSS., Titus B 11, (printed in Ellis’s original letters) which proves that, though Cecil may not have been publicly prominent in the condemnation of Somerset, his acumen and diligence were, as usual, made use of to that end. The document is entirely written by Cecil, and is a list of fifteen questions to be put to Somerset in the Tower, all of them of a leading character and calculated to compromise the prisoner. In Cotton, Vesp. 171, will be found the minutes of the Council which discussed the execution of Somerset. Cecil has written thereon, as if to exonerate himself from all responsibility, that the minutes are in the King’s hand.
[37] State Papers, Dom.
[38] State Papers, Foreign.
[39] Ibid.
[40] Strype.