The following very graphic account, written by a very devoted friend of Buckingham, Sir Dudley Carleton, presents, in several details, a somewhat different delineation of this scene of murder, to that which has been related, collected from various sources, although, in various instances, it is confirmatory of the statements usually received.[124] Footnote 124: It shows in what manner the Duchess was informed of her husband’s death. "S^R--If y^e ill newes we have heard (doe not as their use is) out flye these lres,[125] they will bring you y^e worst of y^e strangest I think you ever received: sure I am, whatever passed my pen. Our noble Duke in y^e midst of his army he had ready at Portsmouth as well shipping as land forces, in y^e height of his favour with our Gracious Master, who was herd by at this place and in the greatest joy and alacrity I ever saw him in my life at y^e newes he had received about of y^e clock in y^e morning on Saturday last of y^e relief of Rochell, in that fort, that y^e place might well attend his coming, wherewith he was hastening to y^e King, who that morning had sent for him by me upon other occasions;--at his going out of a lower parlour where he usually sat, and had then broken his fast in presence of many standers by (Frenchmen with Monsieur de Soubise, officers of his army and those of his own Trayns) was stabbed unto y^e heart a little above y^e breast with a knife by one Felton, an Englishman, being a Reformed Lieutenant, who hastening out of y^e doore and y^e duke having pulled out y^e knife which was left in y^e wound and following him out of y^e parlour into y^e hall, with his hand putt to his sword, there fell down dead with much effusion of bloud at his mouth and nostrils. The Lady Anglesea,[126] then looking down into y^e hall out of an open Gallery, which crossed y^e end of it, and being spectator of this tragical fight, went immediately with a cry into y^e Duchesses Chamber, who was in bed, and then fell down on y^e floor, so surprized y^e poor Duchesse with this sad ... matin....[127] The murderer in y^e midst of y^e noise and tumult, every man drawing his sword and no man knowing whom to strike, nor from whom to defend himself, slipt out into y^e kitchen and there stood with some others unespyed, when a voyce being currant in the court to w^{ch} y^e window and doore of y^e kitchen answered (a Frenchman, a Frenchman), and his guilty conscience making him believe it was “Felton, Felton” (who being otherwise unknown and undiscovered might well have escaped) he came out of y^e kitchen with his sword drawn, and presenting himselfe, said, I am the man: some offering to assayle him and one running at him with a spit, he flung down his sword and rendered himselfe to y^e company, who being ready to handle him as he deserved by tearing him in pieces I took him from them, and having committed him to y^e custody of some officers, when I had taken y^e best order I could for other