examined by Lords of the Council,189;accused of complicity by Cobham,191;inquiries by Waad,192;attempt at suicide,194;an apocryphal letter of farewell,195-8;absurd statement by de Thou; Cobham's remorse and retractations,201-3;a combination of enmities,203-5.The indictment,207;journey to Winchester; brutish mob fury,208;the trial,209-20;Coke's insults,212;rules of evidence in treason prosecutions,213-5;Cobham's renewed charge,217;Ralegh's 'amazement,'218;produces Cobham's letter to himself,219;verdict of guilty, and judgment,220;noble demeanour,221.Legally innocent,222-5;and morally,225-8;general admiration,229-30.The hero abased,232;the explanation,234-6;preparing for death; farewell to wife,237;reprieved,239-40.The legal penalties,241;their mitigation,243;vain prayers for freedom,245;bodily ailments,246-7;his Tower home and household,247-9;petty tyranny of Waad,249-50;suspected implication in Gunpowder Plot,251;other imputed crimes,252;favour of Queen Anne,254;of Prince Henry,255;the Savoy Marriages,256;naval construction,257;Cecil's death,257;Prince Henry's,260;loss of Sherborne,260-4.Scientific,265-7,and literary pursuits,267-70;'no slug,'273;History of the World,270;collaborators,273-5;date of publication,275;defects,276;merits,277-9;applause from all,279;except the King,280-81;cause of interruption of the work,282-4;Prerogative of Parliaments,284-6.Visions of Guiana gold mines,287-92;the opportunity,292-3;payments to Edward Villiers and William St. John,294;enlargement,295;fable of meeting with Robert Carr297.Equipment of ships for Guiana,299;commission with omissions,301;Lord Keeper Bacon's view of the superfluity of a pardon; alleged avowalof designs upon the Plate Fleet,303;Gondomar's protests,304;James's deference to them,305;the French envoy's visit to Ralegh's flagship,307;further negotiations with France,307-10;and with Savoy,310-11.Departure of the fleet from Plymouth,313;stay at Cork, and Boyle's hospitality,314-5;panic at Lancerota,315;secession of Captain Bayley; the Lady of Gomera,316;sickness in the Fleet,ibid.;arrival in Guiana, and organisation of expedition to the mine;317;Ralegh's ignorance of the position of San Thome,318;his instructions,319;despatch of Walter and George Ralegh, with Keymis,320;at Puncto Gallo; hears of Walter's death in the San Thome skirmish,323;angry reception and death of Keymis,324-5;deserted by Whitney and Wollaston,326;writes to Winwood and Lady Ralegh from St. Christopher's,328-9;arrives at Kinsale from Newfoundland,330.Meeting with Lady Ralegh at Plymouth, June 21,331;Sir Lewis Stukely directed to arrest him and his ship,334;escape planned, and abandoned,334;journey, with Stukely and Manourie,335;malingering at Salisbury; and composition ofApology,336;Manourie's treachery,338;interviews with French Agents,338-9;flight, and return to the Tower,341-2.Last interview with Stukely,343;examined by the Privy Council,344;Sir Thomas Wilson's endeavours to extort evidence from him,346-52;Sir Allen's and Lady Apsley's kindness,347-8;appeals to the King and Villiers,349-51;dilemma of the Government,355-7;recourse to the Main Plot,357.A quasi-trial,359-64;the decision,364-5;execution granted by the King's Bench,366-7;testamentary note,369.At the Gate-house,371;'fearlessness, with reverence and conscience,'372;farewell to his wife,373;and to life,374;on the scaffold,375-8;on the block,379.Burial,380;popular wrath, and vengeance,386-9.Durability of the national sympathy,394-8;contradictions in character and career,398-400.Ralegh, Wimund,1.— Elizabeth Throckmorton, Lady,30,88-91,104,110,119,144,151,163,169-70,175-6,237,243,248,250-52,254,261-2,288,305,311,317,329,331,334-6,351-2,358,368-9,373,380-2,384-5.Ralegh's, Sir Walter, Ghost,395.Ralegh, City of,46.Ramsay, John, Viscount Haddington, and Earl of Holderness,290,314.Reeks, of Ratcliff,315,331.Register, Oxford,8,31.— Stationers',31,275.Registers, Middlesex,13.Rehoboam,278.Revenge, The,83.Reynerson, Albert,51.Rich, Sir Henry, Captain of the Guard, and, 1624, Earl of Holland,375.Richard the Second,134.Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de,306-7.Rimenant, battle of,11.Roche, Maurice, Viscount Roche and Fermoy,18.— David, Viscount Roche and Fermoy,314.Roe, Sir Thomas,299.Ros, William Lennox Lascelles, Lord de,248.Ross, Alexander,275,281.Royal Navy, and Sea Service,257,267.Royal Society anticipated,55.Rushworth, John,186,385.Russell, Sir William,146,148.Rutland, Elizabeth Sidney, Countess of,266.Sackville, Sir Edward,375.St. John, Sir Oliver, Lord St. John, and Earl of Bolingbroke,330.— Sir William,294,302,340-2.St. Leger, Sir Warham,20.— Sir Warham, junior,300,318,357,364.Samson's foxes,211.Sampson, the chemist,266.— Captain,252.Sancroft, William, Archbishop of Canterbury,271.Sanderson, William,36,242,371.— Sir William,243,371.Sanderson's History, Observations upon,230,243,280,294,302.Sandys, William, Lord,157.Sassafras,170.Savage, Sir Arthur,156,174.Savoy, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of,255-6,310.Savoy Marriage,255-6,267.Scaramelli,188,194.Scarnafissi, Count,310-11.Sceptic, the,268.Schomburgk, Sir Robert H.,119,121,307.Scott, Sir Walter,23.Sebastian, King of Portugal,142.Selden, John,371.Semiramis,280.Seymour, Lord Henry,160.Sharpe, Rev. Dr.,387.Sheffield, Edmund, Lord Sheffield, and Earl of Mulgrave,375.Shelbury, John,242,248.Sherborne Castle,88,101-3,163-7,195.243-4.260-4,335,381-2.Ships, Invention of,257,267.Shirley,137.— John,258,273.Shrewsbury, Countess of,359.Sidney, Algernon,274,284.— Sir Philip,57,77.— Sir Robert,146,156,177.Simier,32.Simon, Pedro,321.Sixtus Senensis,275.Skory, Sylvanus,329.Sloane, Sir Hans,265.Smerwick massacre,17.Smith, Captain,319.— Robert,242.— Thomas,47.— Widow,112,126.Snagge,167,215.Snedale, Hugh,2.— Margaret,36,243.— Mary,2.Sommers, or Summers, Captain George,112,119.Soul, The,268.Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of,89,143-4,184,192.Southey, Robert,55,113.Southwell,127.Sparrow, Francis,117.Spedding, James,14,304,360-61,364,393.Spence, Rev. Dr. Joseph,278.Spenser, Edmund,17,26,71.Stafford, Sir Edward,89.Standen, Sir Anthony,132.Stanhope, Sir John,49,209.State, Maxims of,267,286.Steele, Sir Richard,269.Stewart, Dugald,398.Stow, John,146.Stowell, Sir John,38.Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of,382.Strype, Rev. John,66.Stuart, Arabella (Grey),63,172-3,207,211,216,250,295.Stukely, John,45.— Sir Lewis,30,45,150,334-43,362-3,369,377,383-4,386-9,395.— Thomas,142.Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, duc de, Baron de Rosny,156,184,254,295.Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of,23,33.Swale, M.P.,159.Talbot, John,248,316.— Mrs.,369.Tarleton, Richard,59.Taxis, Juan de,240.Tempest, the Jesuit,142.Temple, Middle,12,103.Tenures before the Conquest,269.Thome, San, or St. Thomas,123,290,318,320-23,332,350-51,353-5,357,393.Thomond, Donogh O'Brien, 4th Earl of,330.Thou, Jacques Auguste de,199,227.Throckmorton, Sir Arthur,91,129,131.— Sir Nicholas,88,213.Thynne, Captain,82.— Francis,372.Tichborne, Sir Benjamin,157,221,239-50.Tillage Act,158.Tissaphernes,204.Toparimaca,115.Topiowari, King,115,117,123.Torporley,295.Tounson, Robert, Dean of Westminster, and Bishop of Salisbury,372-6,378-9,395.Tower-hill,248,289.Tower of London,88,246-7,342-3,387.— Beauchamp-tower,248.— Bloody-tower,194,247,249,265,297,347.— Brick-tower,94,348.— Wardrobe-tower,348.— White-tower,248.Treason, law of,213-4.Trelawny, Mayor of Plymouth,313.Triangle Islands,317.Tubus Historicus,282.Tunstall, Cuthbert, Bishop of London, and of Durham,104.Turner, Dr. Peter,230,247-8,363.Tyringham,345.Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill, Earl of,125.Tyrwhit, Robert,300.Tytler, Patrick Fraser,198.Udal, Rev. John,55.Ulloa, Julian Sanchez de,360,364.Vera, Domingo de,110,123.Vere, Edward de, 17th Earl of Oxford,57,155.— Henry de, 18th Earl,375.— Sir Francis,126-8,130-1,134,138.Villiers, Sir George, Duke of Buckingham,30,263,293-4,328,347,350,360,367-8,370,395,397.— Sir Edward,294,302.Virginia,44,48,101,288-9.Vyne, the,157.Waad, or Wade, Sir William,192-3,199,208-9,217,249-51,255,266.Walsingham, Sir Francis,11,14,19,22,37,42,45,57.— Lady,144.Walton, Izaak,78.Wanchese,44-5.War by Sea, Art of,257,284,385.War in General,267.War with Spain,31.Warburton, Mr. Justice, Sir Peter,209.Warner, William,295.Warwick, Lady Anne Russell, Countess of,62.Watson, Rev. William,186,193,208,215,229,236.Watts, Sir John,290.Weekes,387.Welldon, or Weldon, Sir Anthony,217,255.West Indies, Treatise of the,270.Westwood,120.Whiddon, Captain Jacob,50,111,113.White, Captain John,46-7.Whitelocke, Captain,251.Whitney, Aubrey's cousin,249.