_Ralegh._ "I never gave it him, he took it off my table. For I well remember a little before that time I received a challenge from Sir Amias Preston, and for that I did intend to answer it, I resolved to leave my estate settled, therefore laid out all my loose papers, among which was this book." _Ld. Howard._ "Where had you this book?" _Ralegh._ "In the old Lord-Treasurer's study, after his death." _Cecil._ "Did you ever show or make known the book to me?" _Ralegh._ "No, my lord." _Cecil._ "Was it one of the books which was left to me or my brother?" _Ralegh._ "I took it out of the study in my Lord-Treasurer's house in the Strand." Then Cecil explained that after his father's death Ralegh was allowed to search in the library for cosmo-graphical descriptions of the Indies. Again he referred to his great love for Ralegh, and said he thought it a little unkindly done on Sir Walter's part to remove the book without his knowledge. It was a book in manuscript on which the Lord-Treasurer had written, "_This is the book of Robert Snagg_." Brooke burned it; the most was made of this incident. Popham asked, "Wherefore should this book be burnt?" _Ralegh._ "I burned it not." _Serjeant Philips._ "You presented your friend with it when he was discontented. If it had been before the queen's death it had been a less matter, but you gave it him presently when he came from the king, which was the time of his discontentment." _Ralegh._ "Here is a book supposed to be treasonable; I never read it, commended it, or delivered it, nor urged it." _Coke._ "Why, this is cunning." _Ralegh._ "Everything that doth make for me is cunning, and everything that maketh against me is probable." _The point was then raised_ about Captain Keymis, who had been rigorously examined. He was well known to be friendly to Ralegh. He proved, however, a faithful friend. Cobham said that Keymis came to him with a letter torn. But of this nothing came; Keymis had been too staunch to add anything to the truth, and the matter was dropped. More testimony of Cobham was then read concerning letters to Arabella, and again Ralegh insisted on Cobham's presence. "Let me speak for my life," cried Ralegh; "it can be no hurt for him to be brought; he dares not accuse me. If you grant me not this favour, I am strangely used. Campian was not denied to have his accusers face to face." _Popham._ "Since he must needs have justice, the acquitting of his old friend may move him to speak otherwise than the truth." _Ralegh._ "If I had been the infuser of all these treasons into him--you Gentlemen of the Jury, mark this, he said I have been the cause of all his miseries, and the destruction of his house, and that all evil hath happened unto him by my wicked counsel--if this be true, whom hath he cause to accuse and to be revenged on, but on me? And I know him to be as revengeful as any man on earth." _Coke._ "He is a party, and may not come; the law is against it."