A History of England From the First Invasion By the Romans
A History of England From the First Invasion By the Romans
John Lingard
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dignant at a report so injurious to her honour : she traced it to the lady Lake and her daugh- ter, and immediately appealed for justice to the court of the star-chamber. The defendants produced iir their favour a written instrument, purporting to be a confession of guilt in the hand \vriting of the countess herself; asserted that she had delivered it to them in the pre- sence of lord Roos and his servant Diego, standing at the great window in the long room at Wimbledon; and brought forward Sar...ah Swarton, a servant, who swore that, being con- cealed behind the hanging at the opposite end, she had seen and heard all that passed. James, who prided himself on his sagacity in the de- tection of forgery and imposture, determined to unravel this mystery. He privately dispatched a messenger to lord Roos in Italy, who with Diego, took his oath on the sacrament that the whole tale was a fabrication.*^ With this ground for suspicion, the king compared the leis. written document with the letters of the coun- •^'^^•^t.
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