Part 16 (1/2)
[Sidenote: _Alleviations of Confineh could entertain dependents and acquaintances His Sherborne steward, John Shelbury, Hariot, his physician Dr Turner, a surgeon Dr
John, and a clergyh and Gilbert kinsfolk, we h there was no especial reason to chronicle their visits Had fuller details been preserved of his private life, we should doubtless have foundin apparent prosperity at Downton His employment, as soon as he had the opportunity, of the naval and h and Gilbert, shows that the family union survived unbroken
Admirers from the West and the Court came to listen to his conversation, and watch his cheht froister of Chelsea Church records the baptism of one of them by the name of Charles, 'a boy of estiht by Sir Walter Rawlie froed in the Tower, or near He could a them on the wonders of their land His freedoes of his imprisonment, when he had 'the liberty of the Tower,' roused the envy of fellow prisoners Grey allery to himself' In his deepest tribulations he had reverential valets and pages to co locks, to tried the wharf below tohis terrace in the velvet and laced cap, the rich gown and trunk hose, noted by Aubrey's cousin Whitney, and the jewels, of which he retained an ample store
[Sidenote: _His Gaoler_]
But he was made in many respects, and at frequent intervals, to feel hihts, subject to all sorts of caprices A kind-hearted Lieutenant e Harvey, who had commenced ill with the suppression of Cobhaether Harvey had lent or let to hiarden The door of the bloody toas suffered to stand habitually open On August 16, 1605, Sir William Waad replaced Harvey He had earned the post by his keen scent for plots He caes to theA week after his appointest the replaceate, by a brick wall, as 'more safe and convenient' His advice was taken, and a brick wall built Still he was uneasy In Decenantly to Cecil that 'Sir Walter Ralegh doth show hiarden to the view of the people, who gaze upon hi hu before the Council was rather to clear than to charge him' Waad took credit to himself that he had been 'bold in discretion and conveniency to restrain hiht to have needed boldness He desired to repress the wife as well as the husband Lady Ralegh does not seeust associations of the Tower He had to issue an order forbidding her to drive into the court-yard in her coach By another sole of the afternoon bell, all the prisoners, with their servants, were to withdraw into their chaht
Until May, 1613, Ralegh had to endure this man's petty spite and disciplinary pedantry Then Waad retired, to the great contenth, as it happened, from a cause which did hi her iniquitous imprisonment was the increase of her stock of jewels From an order of Council after her death, she would seeh as an expert Several stones of price had disappeared in 1613 Suspicion was cast upon Waad, or his wife and daughter Probably they were entirely innocent The real object was that Carr ainst Sir Thomas Overbury Under pressure of the accusation based on thetrinkets, Waad accepted 1400 from Sir Gervase Elways, with a promise of 600 more, and vacated his office
Elways becaed on his oer Hill But he was less of a martinet than his predecessor
Perhaps his patrons were engaged in too serious cri hih recovered the liberty of the Tower; and the restrictions on the presence of his ere relaxed
[Sidenote: _Fresh Accusations_]
At no period were his really formidable enemies inside the Tower Waad himself would not have dared to harass and worry him, if he had not been confident that his tyranny would be approved at Court His foes there were perpetually on the watch for excuses for tightening and perpetuating his bonds He had to defend himself from a suspicion of complicity with the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 Commissioners, of whom Waad was one, were appointed to inquire Lord Northumberland had been sent to the Tower by the Star Chamber for misprision of treason, on the flimsy pretext of his intimacy with Thomas Percy He was questioned on his coh was questioned on his with the Earl One day the French ambassador's wife, Madame de Beaumont, cahaarden The Tower contained no lion as wonderful She asked him for some balsam of Guiana He forwarded the balsam to the ambassadress by Captain Whitelocke, a retainer of Northumberland's, who happened to have been in her train Several Lords of the Council were deputed to exa deposed that he had noticed Whitelocke in the Archduke's coh had difficulty in persuading the Council that he had seen little either of the Captain, who came only on an ordinary visit, of Northumberland, since the Earl's confinement, or of the French ambassador and his wife He prayed their Lordshi+ps in the name of 'my many sorrows and the causes, my services and love tothis unexampled and more than devilish invention' So, or affecting to think, any incredible evil of hi circu a visit to Sherborne, had the old arh's Expulsion_]
In 1607 the Council instituted an inquiry into the ht before it, and interrogated So was Edward or William Cottrell, described as 'alias Captain Sa for some tiranted hih an offer of better terone transain, in 1610 soh The Council sat at the Tower On Cecil was thrown the task, ill hope, the very ungrateful task, of addressing to him a solemn rebuke He was subjected to three ed to leave the Tower An order was served upon her: 'The Lady Raleighe must understand his Majesty's express will and commandment that she resort to her house on Tower Hill or ellswhere with her woe hereafter within the Tower' Ralegh prayed earnestly that she ain be made a prisoner with me, as she hath been for six years last past, in this unsavoury place--a reat tothan peaceable sorrow' The offence for which he was censured and immured was never revealed to the public; for the excellent reason, it may be presumed, that to the public it would have appeared frivolous His true criathered fro In July, 1611, fresh rumours of offences committed by him were spread Howard, now Earl of Northampton and Lord Chamberlain, and another Privy Councillor, were commissioned to inquire To Howard's taste, his spirit was not at all sufficiently subdued In a letter to his notable accoreat niece, Carr, Lord Rochester and Privy Seal, Howard expressed his spite: 'We had a bout with Sir Walter Ralegh, in e find no change, but the saht er passion Hereof his Majesty shall hear when the Lords co cockered and fostered with hopes exorbitant, hath bred suitable desires and affections And yet you may assure his Majesty that by this publication he won little ground' He gained so little that, as he wrote in this year, he was, after eight years of imprisonment, as straitly locked up as he had been the first day
[Sidenote: _Search for Evidence of Guilt_]
When his iuilt if he were guilty In its times of least oppressiveness it was an enoruiltless of the treason iaolers knew it, his imprisonment under any conditions appeared a ainst the wrong It was the grievance as much of his enemies that they had him fast in prison, and could neither browbeat hi the justice of his doom, nor prove its justice They had obtained his condemnation rather than his conviction They were incited by his appeals to redoubled efforts to establish his original guilt So for exauilty No less than his nant and unscrupulous foes they resented furiously their inability to dearded it as evidence merely of his abominable craft The ordinary and extraordinary laxity of his confinement indicated their doubt of his fair liability to any The intervals of rigour were meant to notify to the sceptical that the Government was at last on the track of evidence which would confirainst hiainst atte with new conspiracies For ten years the contest proceeded between hiht of an innocentfor proofs of its right to put hiht have been content with the degree of ruin they had wrought if he would have acquiesced in his fall He insisted on regarding hih he could not deny that he was civilly dead He looked forth froe on which he still played a part, andup the buried past He assuainst the majesty of the law He was not patient of injustice because a court of justice was its source He had the audacity to speak, think, and write, as if he were entitled to canvass affairs of State Froaol he became audible in the recesses of the Palace He troubled the self-co his consort and his heir-apparent to question his infallible wisdom
[Sidenote: _Queen Anne's Favour_]
[Sidenote: _Cobhaain_]
Queen Anne perhaps scarcely needed the lesson She was fond of power, and 'bold and enterprising,' records Sully Her husband appears to have stood in some awe of her criticisms She commonly took a line of her own Henry Howard, whose policy she had opposed before the death of Elizabeth, insinuated that she was a foolish, garrulous, and intriguing woenerous ee She disliked the Spanish connexion, of which she was at one period esteereat deeds His faithful cousin George Carew, her Vice-Chah, whom she is said on her first arrival froained her ear and syh's trial, tried to help him By a medicine of his invention she believed herself subsequently to have been cured of a violent ained the King's consent to a re-exaainst him Reference has already been made to the story, as told by Sir Anthony Welldon Cecil, Lenox, Worcester, Suffolk, Carew, and Julius Caesar are said to have been deputed to ask Cobhah at Winchester Cobhaot me by a trick to write , did; so that, if any charge ca abovethe rest chose Cecil for spokesood all that ever he wrote or said' Altogether it is a round for belief that he would have perpetrated a cold-blooded fraud to gratify his ill-will He was arrogant and tyrannical, not criminal, as the circumstances of the loss of his Lieutenancy show The presence of honest and friendly Carew as one of the royal commissioners, renders the account as it stands all but incredible He certainly would not have been a party to a lying and wicked prevarication Cecil would not, nor Sir Julius Caesar But it is one of the h myths, with a possible particle of truth in it, which cannot be sifted out of the h on a Piedh built more hopes on the favour of the Prince of Wales than on that of his h spirit He would have rejoiced in war at which his father shuddered Through his h's acquaintance in his boyhood, and for hi: 'Who but erly responded to the advances of one through whohted in the coh, who states that he had intended the _History of the World_ for him; and he is said to have looked over the h in 1611 on the proposal by Duke Charles Ee The Elector Palatine was negotiating for the hand of Princess Elizabeth Spain and the whole Catholic party in Europe dreaded an alliance of the English royal fae James to affiance Elizabeth to the Duke of Savoy's son, the Prince of Piedh co after his death The first e to 'a prince jesuited,' her removal far from her country to a family circle of another faith, a dependent now and ever, as Ralegh not prophetically declared, 'either upon France or upon Spain' He foreboded how, in default of ht becoland' 'I do prize,'
he declared, 'the alliance of the Palatine of the Rhine, and of the House of Nassau, more than I do the alliance of the Duke of Savoy' In the second Discourse Ralegh argued against the Prince's alliance with Dukes of the blood of Spain, and servants of 'Spain, which to England is irreconcilable' Such an alliance would increase the jealousy of the Netherlands, a country which was for England a necessary friend He lah the detested covetousness of soreat ones of ours Whereas, in my time, I have known one of her Majesty's shi+ps command forty Hollanders to strike sail, they will now take us one to one, and not give us a good morrow
They have our own ordnance to break our own bones withal' Besides, the Prince was only about eighteen So long as he continued unmarried all the eyes of Christendole hiested, a French faeous than a Spanish
His presu the's inclination,to do with the unexplained chastisement inflicted upon him in the summer of 1611 Whatever their cause, rebukes and curtailoodwill of his friend The Prince not long after sought his assistance in the building of a model shi+p The vessel was christened 'The Prince,' and it proved an excellent sailer The prisoner of the Torote about it as if he smelt the sea-breezes Twenty-nine years earlier he had proved hi In his tilish shi+ps had been greatly bettered' Much of the credit of the refordoht becaather hints from him His cohts back to maritime questions Beside a letter, admirably terse and critical, to Prince Henry, he composed a treatise minutely practical, called a _Discourse of the Invention of shi+ps_, and also _Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea Service_ Both probably were intended for parts of an elaborate work on _The Art of War by Sea_, which the death of the Prince hindered hi He alludes in the Observations to a _Discourse of a Maritie_, as a previous product of his pen, which, unless it be the _Discourse of the Invention of shi+ps_, has disappeared Had _The Art of War by Sea_ coht have stood as another of its chapters
[Sidenote: _Robert Cecil's Death_]
Prince Henry's death was the most cruel blow inflicted on him since his trial The disappointment was the severer that it had been preceded six months earlier by another death on which his friends, and perhaps himself, founded expectations On May 16, 1612, died Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and Lord High Treasurer He was hastening to Court, to counter the waters At the inn at Marlborough he found hirievously ill He was ree, or to the house of a Mr Daniel, which had foraret's Priory There he expired
[Sidenote: _Dumb Enmity_]
A born statesman, Cecil had been conde with office, to serve a great sovereign in little ways, and to en's feebleness As a friend he could relieve adversity so far as not to cancel it; but he could not pardon in a companion prosperity which threatened rivalry, or risk his share of sunshi+ne by screening a victial odium By no class was he profoundly lamented