a letter to the king give he a account of Peachams business and some other Jan  it may please your excellent majesty I receive this morning by mr Mrray a  message from your majesty of some warrant and confidence that I shall  advertise your majesty of your business wherein I have part wherein I be first  humble to thank your majesty for your good acceptation of my endeavour and  service which I be not able to furnish with any other quality save faith and  diligence for Peachams case I have since my last letter be with my lord cokee  twice once before mr Scretaries go down to your majesty and once since which  be yesterday at the former of which time I deliver he Peachams paper and at  this latter the precedent which I have with care gather and select for these  degree and order the business require at the former I tell he that he know my  errand which stand upon two point the one to inform he of the particular case  of Peachams treason for I never give it other word to he the other to receive  his opinion to my self and in secret accord to my Commission from your majesty  at the former time he fall upon the same allegation which he have begin at the  Council table that judge be not to give opinion by fraction but entire accord  to the vote whereupon they shall settle upon conference and that this  auricular take of opinion single and apart be new and dangerous and other word  more vehement than I repeat I reply in civil and plain term that I wish his  lordship in my love to he to think better of it for that this that his  lordship be please to put into great word seem to I and my fellow when we  speak of it among our self a reasonable and familiar matter for a king to  consult with his judge either assemble or select or one by one and then to  give he a little outlet to save his first opinion wherewith he be most common  in love I add that judge some time may make a sue to be spare for their  opinion till they have speak with their brother but if the king upon his own  princely judgement for reason of estate shall think it fit to have it  otherwise and shall so demand it there be no decline nay that it touch upon a  violation of their oath which be to counsel the king without distinction  whether it be joint or several thereupon I put he the case of the privycouncil  as if your majesty shall be please to command any of they to deliver their  opinion a part and in private whether it be a good answer to deny it otherwise  than if it be propound at the table to this he say that the case be not alike  because this concern life to which I reply that question of estate may concern  thousand of life and many thing more precious than the life of a particular as  war and peace and the like to conclude his lordship tanquam exit to seek  desire I for the time to leave with he the paper without press he to consent  to deliver a private opinion till he have peruse they I say I will and the  more Willing because I think his lordship upon due consideration of the paper  will find the case to be so clear a case of treason as he will make no  difficulty to deliver his opinion in private and so I be persuade of the rest  of the judge of the king bench who likewise as I partly understand make no  scruple to deliver their opinion in private whereunto he say which I note well  that his brother be wise man and that they may make a show as if they will  give a opinion as be require but the end will be that it will come to this  they will say they doubt of it and so pray advice with the rest but to this I  answer that I be sorry to hear he say so much lest if it come so to pass some  that love he not may make a construction that that which he have foretell he  have wrought thus your majesty see we that as Solomon say going  not tanquam  in hedge in a thorn it catch upon every thing the latter meeting be yet of  more importance for then come arm with diverse precedent I think to set in  with the best strength I can and say that before I descend to the record I  will break the case to he thus that it be true we be to proceed upon the  ancient statute of king Edward the because other temporary statute be go and  therefore it must be say in the indictment to give an image of be et  Compassavit death et Of destruction domini king then must the particular  treason follow in this manner videlicet et quoth and perimplendum  unmentionable propositum suum  to bring together to write together a certain  execrable et venenosum little book sive scribe in quo inter other proditoria  to hold together c and then the principal passage of treason take forth of the  paper be to be enter in haec word and with a conclusion in the end and thought  quoth ligeus a people et Veri to put under domini king cordia they suum love  lord king to draw back et Self owner king to leave behind Guerram et  Insurrectionem contra the dawn to lift up et to make c I have in this former  follow the ancient style of the indictment for brevity sake though when we  come to the business it self we shall enlarge it accord to the use of the late  time this I represent to he be a thing he be well acquaint with that he may  perceive the platform of that be intend without any mistake or obscurity but  then I fall to the matter it self to lok he in as much as I can videlicet that  there be mean or manner whereby the death of the king be compass and imagine  the first by some particular fact or plot the second by disable his Title as  by affirm that he be not lawful king or that another ought to be king or that  he be a usurper or a bastard or the like the three by subject his Title to the  pope and thereby make he of a absolute king a conditional king the four by  disable his regiment and make he appear to be incapable or indign to reign  these thing I relate to your majesty in sum as be fit which when I open to my  lord I do insist a little more upon with more efficacy and edge and authority  of law and record than I can now express then I place Peachams treason within  the last division agreeable to diverse precedent whereof I have the record  ready and conclude that your majesty safety and life and authority be thus by  law inscansed and quarter and that it be in vain to fortify on three of the  side and so leave you open on the four it be true he hear I in a grave fashion  more than accustom and take a pen and take note of my division and when he  read the precedent and record will say this you mean fall within your first or  your second division in the end I express demand his opinion as that whereto  both he and I be enjoin but he desire I to leave the precedent with he that he  may advice upon they I tell he the rest of my fellow will dispatch their part  and I shall be behind with I which I persuade my self your majesty will impute  rather to his backwardness than my negligence he say as soon as I shall  understand that the rest be ready he will not be long after with his opinion  for I S your majesty know the day draw on and my lord chancellor recovery the  season and his age promise not to be too hasty I speak with he on Sunday at  what time I find he in bed but his spirit strong and not spend or weary and  speak whole of your business lead I from one matter to another and wish and  seem to hope that he may attend the day for I S and it be as he say to be his  last work to conclude his service and express his affection towards your  majesty I presume to say to he that I know your majesty will be exceed  desirous of his be present that day so as that it may be without prejudice to  his continuance but that otherwise your majesty esteem a servant more than a  service especial such a servant sure in I opinion your majesty be better put  off the day than want his presence consider the Cause of the put off be so  notorios and then the capital and the Criminal may come together the next term  I have not be unprofitable in help to discover and examine within these few  day a late patent by surreption obtain from your majesty of the great forest  in England worth l under colour of a defective Title for a matter of l the  person must be nam because the patent must be question it be a great person my  lord of Shrewsbury or rather as I think a great than he which be my lady of  Shrewsbury but I humble pray your majesty to know this first from my lord  treasurer who methinks grow even studious in your business God preserve your  majesty your majesty most humble and devote subject and servant the rather in  regard of mr Murray absence I humble pray your majesty to have a little regard  to this letter