It is beyond all doubt, however, in the well-known handwriting of Hariot, and is presumed to be the ‘note of remembrance’ _for_ the speech, made in the Gate House, probably from dictation, during the night before the execution. It appears as if hurriedly penned with a blunt quill, and is on a narrow strip of thin foolscap paper such as Hariot used. It is about twelve inches long and nearly four inches wide, about one-third of the lower part of the paper being blank. There is no heading, date, or anything else on the paper. It is rather difficult to read, but every word, letter and point have been made out, and the whole _Note_ is here given, line for line, and verbatim, the heading and press-mark only being added : [SIR WALTER RALEIGH’S ‘NOTE OR REMEMBRANCE’ _for his speech on the Scaffold_ Oct. 29 1618.] Two fits of an agew. Thankes to god. of calling god to witness. note That He Speake iustly & truely. I.) Concerning his loyalty to _ye_ King. French Agent, & Comission fro ye french King. 2.) of Slanderous fpeeches touching his majty. a french man. Sr L. Stukely. 3.) Sr L. Stukely. My lo: Carewe. 4.) SrL. Stukely. My lo: of Danchaster. 5.) Sr L. St: S’ Edward Perham. 6.) Sr L. St. A letter on london hyway l0000li. 7.) Mine of Guiana. 8.) Came back by constreynt. 9.) My L. of Arundell. 10.) Company ufed ill in ye Voyadge. 11. Spotting of his face & counterfeiting sicknes. 12 The _E. of_ Eflex. Lastly, he deiired ye company to ioyne with him in prayer. &c. _[Brit. MM. Add._ MSS. 6789.] Every paragraph of the speech is noted, but not quite in the order of the speech as variously reported by those who witnessed the execution and heard it. Circumstances occurred after Sir Walter began to speak, which may have caused the slight change in the order as here set down. This argues in favor of its being a note prepared beforehand. If so It must have been written shortly before the speech, because the order for the execution was not given in the King’s Bench Court till the afternoon of the 28th, and the execution was fixed for early the next morning. There is a little confusion of the tenses, but this is not strange considering that the note was penned by a third person. The last two lines, below the number 12, may have been added by Hariot afterwards, as they are in the past tense and third person, and are separated from the rest of the note by a dash. This point is not numbered. It is possible that thefirst five lines were also added subsequently, as they are not numbered, and are placed near the top of the paper, as if interpolated, but they are in the same handwriting, and apparently were written with the same pen and ink.