Another notable specimen of the way in which reason and probability were cast to the winds is afforded by two letters written from Naples in 1610, one to King James and the other to Salisbury, by Sir Edwin Rich,[464] who announced that Father Greenway--who of all the Jesuits was said to be most clearly convicted as a traitor--intended to send to the king a present of an embroidered satin doublet and hose, which, being craftily poisoned, would be death to him if he put them on. FOOTNOTES: [458] "And so by degrees to the uttermost." [459] These instructions furnish an interesting specimen of the king's broad Scotch, _e.g._, "Quhat Gentlewomans Letter it was y^t was founde upon him, and quhairfor doth she give him an other Name in it y^n he giues to himself. If he was ever a papiste; and if so, quho brocht him up in it. If otherwayes, hou was he convertid, quhair, quhan, and by quhom." The following passage is very characteristic of the writer: "Nou last, ye remember of the crewellie villanouse pasquille y^t rayled upon me for y^e name of Brittanie. If I remember richt it spake something of harvest and prophecyed my destructi[=o] about y^t tyme. Ye may think of y^s, for it is lyke to be by y^e Laboure of such a desperate fellow as y^s is." [460] _The Arraignment and execution of the late traitors_, etc., 1606. [461] See, for instance, _London and the Kingdom_ (mainly from the Guildhall Archives), by Reginald R. Sharpe, ii. 13. [462] P. 9. [463] Lewis Owen, _Unmasking of all popish Monks_, etc. (1628), p. 49. [464] _Dom. James I._ lvii. 92-93, October 5th. APPENDIX M. _Sir William Waad's Memorial Inscriptions._ IN a room of the Queen's House in the Tower, in which the conspirators are supposed to have been examined by the Lords of the Council, Sir William Waad has left a series of inscriptions as memorials of the events in which he played so large a part. Of these the most noteworthy are the following: I. Jacobus Magnus, Magnæ Britanniæ rex, pietate, justitia, prudentia, doctrina, fortitudine, clementia, ceterisq. virtutibus regiis clariss'; Christianæ fidei, salutis publicæ, pacis universalis propugnator, fautor auctor acerrimus, augustiss', auspicatiss'. Anna Regina Frederici 2. Danorum Regis invictiss' filia sereniss^a, Henricus princeps, naturæ ornamentis, doctrinæ præsidiis, gratiæ Muneribus, instructiss', nobis et natus et a deo datus, Carolus dux Eboracensis divina ad omnem virtutem indole,[465] Elizabetha utriusq. soror Germana, utroque parente dignissima Hos velut pupillam oculi tenellam providus muni, procul impiorum impetu alarum tuarum intrepidos conde sub umbra. [This is evidently intended for a Sapphic stanza, but the last two words of v. 3 have been transposed, destroying the metre.] II.