Part 9 (2/2)

Barnaby at Cadiz, when his bearing was of quite so gallant aair, he foiled James and Philip at one thrust, and conquered the esteem of all posterity It is only now, after two centuries and a half, that history is beginning to hint that there was not a little special pleading and so through land like the blast of a clarion, and which echoed in secret places till the oppressed rose up and claimed their liberty

He spoke for about five-and-twenty enious, as well as eloquent, and directed to move the sympathy of his hearers as much as possible, without any deviation from literal truth

He said that it was true that he had tried to escape to France, but that histo be justly incensed, and thought that frootiate his pardon What he said about the coeniously worded, as to leave us absolutely without evidence fro about La Chesnee's visits, he proceeded to denounce the base Mannourie and his miserable master Sir Lewis Stukely, yet without a word of unseemly invective He then defended his actions in the Guiana voyage, and turning brusquely to the Earl of Arundel, appealed to him for evidence that the last words spoken between theh's return to England This was to rebut the accusation that Raleigh had been overpowered by his ainst his will Arundel answered, 'And so you did!'

The Sheriff presently showing soed to say but a feords more He had been vexed to find that the Dean of Westeneral circulation to the effect that Raleigh behaved insolently at the execution of Essex, 'puffing out tobacco in disdain of him;' this he solemnly denied He then closed as follows:

And now I entreat that you will all join rievously offended, being a man full of all vanity, who has lived a sinful life in such callings as have beento it; for I have been a soldier, a sailor, and a courtier, which are courses of wickedness and vice; that His alive me; that He will cast awaylife--So I takemy peace with God

Proclamation was then made that all visitors should quit the scaffold

In parting with his friends, Raleigh besought theuard his ered so long, that it was Raleigh hio,' he said, and smiled, 'therefore I must take my leave of you' When the friends had retired he addressed hi first announced that he died in the faith of the Church of England When his prayer was done, he took off his night-gown and doublet, and called to the headsh cried, 'I prithee, letpassed his finger along the edge, he gave it back, and turning to the Sheriff, smiled, and said, ''Tis a sharp medicine, but one that will cure me of all my diseases' The executioner, overcoh put his two hands upon his shoulders, and said he forgave him with all his heart He added, 'When I stretch forth my hands, despatch me' He then rose erect, and bowed cereht and then to the left, and said aloud, 'Give me heartily your prayers' The Sheriff then asked hih answered, 'So the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies,' but he chose to lie facing the east The heads the axe Raleigh then lay down, and the company was hushed while he remained awhile in silent prayer He was then seen to stretch out his hands, but the headsh repeated the action, but again without result The rich Devonshi+re voice was then heard again, and for the last time 'What dost thou fear? Strike, man, strike!' His body neither twitched nor tre in prayer At last the headsh he struck twice, the first bloas fatal

Sir Walter Raleigh was probably well advanced in his sixty-seventh year, but grief and travel had orous, however, and the effusion from his body was so extraordinary, that many of the spectators shared the wonder of Lady Macbeth, that the old man had so much blood in him The head was shown to the spectators, on both sides of the scaffold, and was then dropped into a red bag The body rapt in the velvet night-gown, and both were carried to Lady Raleigh By this time, perhaps, she had heard froton, for she presently had it interred in the chancel of St Margaret's, Westminster The head she caused to be e favoured friends, like Bishop Goodh preserved it with a like piety It is supposed now to rest in West Horsley church in Surrey Lady Raleigh lived on until 1647, thus witnessing the ruin of the dynasty which had destroyed her own happiness

No success befell the wretches who had enriched theh's ruin Sir Judas Stukely, for so he was now commonly styled, was shunned by all classes of society It was discovered very soon after the execution, that Stukely had for years past been a clipper of coin of the realet his blood-ht with his guilty fingers at work on soold pieces for which he had sold his master The meaner rascal, Mannourie, fell with hiallows, but the King allowed his, however, they taunted hih, and at last he fled to the desolate island of Lundy, where his brain gave way under the weight of remorse and solitude He died there, a h a less nant one, scarcely survived him Lord Cobhah was in the Canaries, died of lingering paralysis on January 24, 1619 Of other persons ere closely associated with Raleigh, Queen Anne died in the sahahty-nine, in 1624; Bacon in 1629; Ben Jonson in 1637; while the Earl of Arundel lived on until 1646

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Mr Edwards corrects the date to 1580 NS, but this is h was on the Atlanticfor Cork Harbour

[2] Dr Brushfield has found no h later than April 11, 1578 As he was born in 1497, he e

[3] Mr J Cordy Jeaffreson has co discovery, which he has 's Lynn, in Norfolk It appears that the Mayor was paid ten pounds 'in respecte he did in the yere of his maioraltie [between Michaelht and his coe hether about the Queanes affayrs;' the occasion being, it would see forth of a shi+p of war and a pinnace as the contingent froainst the Armada This is an important fact, for it is the only definite record that has hitherto reached us of Raleigh's activity in guarding the coast against invasion

[4] In the first two nuave in full detail the facts and arguh says that he appointed thishim out of prison, because he had all the ancient records of Sherborne, his father having been the Bishop's officer'--_De la Warr MSS_

[6] Mr Edwards has evidently dated this important letter a year too late (vol ii 397-8)

[7] In a letter Raleigh goes still further, and says that he found Meeres, 'co my hand above a hundred ti Sir A Malet's MSS, for instance, we find Raleigh spoken of, so early as April 1600, as 'the hellish Atheist and Traitor,' and we look in vain for the cause of such violence

[9] This date, till lately uncertain, is proved from the journal of Cecil's secretary

[10] This was really the first edition of the _Reh that title does not appear until the third edition of 1657

[11] More exactly, a house at the corner of Wykford Lane, with a sh's brother's seat at Beddington

[12] I gather this date, hitherto entirety unknown, from the fact that in the recently published _Lismore Papers_ Sir Richard Boyle notes on May 27 that he receives letters fro the Bute MSS is a letter fro hi of false faht;'

but Bacon's enmity was unalterable