[96]. Probably by Mons. St. Antoine, the equerry to M. Henry. He was engaged as a riding-master, as we find by Endymion[Endymion] Porter’s letters, (State Paper Office, Domestic) to many persons of condition.
[97]. Nichols’s Progresses, 7, 1, iii., 131.
[98]. Gifford. Ben Jonson’s Works.
[99]. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 210.
[100]. Birch’s MS., British Museum, 4176.
[101]. Of the mode of this discovery, differing accounts are given. According to Carte, Winwood derived the information of Somerset’s guilt, from Archbishop Abbot, who detected it in some papers found in a trunk, which was brought to the Archbishop by a servant of Overbury’s. See Carte’s Hist. Eng. vol. ii. p. 43. Sir Symonds D’Ewes declares that the foul deed was disclosed by Sir Thomas Elwis, Lieutenant of the Tower, to Secretary Winwood, acknowledging and excusing his own connivance in the affair, and laying the instigation of it to the account of Somerset and his wretched wife.—D’Ewes’s[D’Ewes’s] MS. Journal in Bishop Goodman’s Life, vol. iv., p. 144.
[102]. Published in Somers’s Tracts, vol. ii.
[103]. Somerset was even accused of having poisoned Prince Henry; but Coppinger, a former servant of his, who accused him of that crime, was said to be “cracked in his wits.” State Papers, vol. cxxxvii., p. 27.
[104]. Amos’s Great Oyer of Poisoning, vol i., pp. 31 and 33.
[105]. Bacon’s Works, vol. ii., p. 183.