Treason And Plot; Struggles for Catholic Supremacy in the Last Years of Queen Elizabeth
Treason And Plot; Struggles for Catholic Supremacy in the Last Years of Queen Elizabeth
Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847-1910
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Philip by this time was incapable of moving, a mere mass of vernun and repulsive wounds." From the beginning of July until his death he was quite disabled. *' The pain of his malady was so intense that he could not even endure a cloth to touch the parts, and he lay slowly rotting to death for fifty-three dreadful days without a change of garment or the proper cleansing of his sores." This is the textual account given by an eye-witness of the King's last days, and of itself is a sufficient refut...ation of Stanley's absurd story of his long interview with Philip on the 5/1 5 th August 1598. ' State Papers, Domestic Examinations of John Stanley, October 1598. ANOTHER "MURDER PLOT" 321 means of the rack, upon which Squire suffered for five hours at a stretch/ a story was torn out, which, if true, surpasses all the rest in unavailing villainy, and, what was more important still, coupled the name of Essex with that of the Queen as the intended victims of a Jesuit plot. Squire, it appears, had been captured from Drake's fleet, and was im- prisoned in Seville.
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