3rd. He was one of the commissioners on the trial of Garnet and others; and told him, as he stood in a box made like a pulpit—
"Sir, you have this day done more good in that pulpit wherein you now stand, than you have done in any other pulpit all the days of your life."—Archæologia, vol. xv.
His coffin-plate has been engraved somewhere, and, if his will exists, it might probably settle the question.
Q. D.
Lord Howard of Effingham (Vol. iii., p. 185.).—There is some proof that he was a Protestant in the letter of instructions to him from King James (Biog. Brit., p. 2679.):
"Only we forewarn you, that in the performance of that ceremony, which is likely to be done in the King's (of Spain) chapel, you have especial care that it be not done in the forenoon, in the time of mass, to the scandal of our religion; but rather in the afternoon, at what time their service is more free from note of superstition."
May Lord Effingham have changed his religion between the Armada and his mission to Spain?
C. B.