tJpon  which  the  doctor  said,  That  belief  of your's

1  do  not  now  question ;  but  I 'desire  to  know  of

joo,  whether  you'  do  not  believe  that  the  late

earl  of  Essex  did  indeed  cut  his  throat  ?  and

presaing  the  soldier  for  his  answer  tbereunto,

thatunbappy  spidier  did  thereupon  say,  Sir.  I

-wiU  not  aay  1  do  bebcfve  it ;  aqd,  thereupon  the

doctor  informed  the  governor,  of  what  was  said

by  that  soldier,  who  was  thereupon  piit  in

prison,  and,  tor  a  fortnight,  fed  upon  bread  and

water,  and,  when  the  governor  was  out  of  the

Tower,  lieutenant  colonel  Nicholson  ordered

the  barbarous  whipping  abovo-mentioned  to  be

inflicted.    And  the  more  effectually  to  prevent

any  discourse,  that  might  give  the  least  cre-
dit to  my  lord's  being  murdered,  the  then  arbi-
trary proceedings'^  of  those  days,  punish ci  oq»

of  my  lord's  coroner's  jury,  because  he  declared

his  di8satistigu:tion  in  tiudmg  my  loridy!^  de  m.
This  juryman  was  one  Mr.  Colston,  who  had

many  years  taught  writing,  and  the  mathema-
tics. Upon Tower-hUl.    And  some  time. after

my  lord's  death,  ^his  juryman  was  giving  'some

persons  an  aocoont  of  the  several  irregularities

which  had  been  practised,  relating  to  my  lord's

body,  before  they  of  the  coroner's  jury  had

seen  the  body,  and  that  juryman  declar«l  that

these  jurymen  were  not  permitted  to  make

those  mquiries,  which  were  necessary  to  dis-
cover the  true  manner  of  my  lord  s  death.
