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The arraignment, tryal and condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex, and Henry Earl of Southampton, : at Westminster the 19th of February, 1600. and in the 43 year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth: for rebelliously conspiring and endeavouring the subversion of the government, by confederacy with Tyr-Owen, that popish traytor and his complices; of whom, these following, viz. Sir Christopher Blunt Sir Charles Danvers Sir Gillie Merrick and Henry Cuffe were the 5th of March following, by a special commission of oyer and terminer, arraigned, condemned, and executed. The peers had to their assistance the learned judges. Counsel for the Queen. Sir Henry Yelverton, the Queens Serjeant. Sir Edward Cook, the Queens Attorney General; afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England. Mr. Bacon, afterwards Lord Chancellor