Catalogue description CONJECTURES, touching the letter found in the apple.

--"The very first thing which he doth is, that he falleth upon Cotton as most pressing him. If Cotton be altogether a stranger to him, why doth he call him generosum modestum.

His putting populum in the neuter gender like vulgus, hoc populum, and schismam, and Evangelium libertinum, sheweth him, as to be a gentleman scholler, so to remaine in a place, where he hath no use of bookes. His mentioning of Baldwine so unfitly, intimateth that he is neere, and so best remembreth him.

Why is he so earnest to have Baldwine and Cotton so hastily sett at liberty, since their punishments are for different causes?

The titles which he giveth Baldwine may argue him to be an admirer of the Jesuits, for he termeth him illustrissimus, when he entitleth the King but insignissimus: and such a one is Cotton.

But why will he bestow his life for Cotton and Baldwine, if Cotton be a meere stranger unto him?

From the 14 of June to the 5 of November he is silent: why did he not in all this time seeke to free Cotton, if he loved him so well, and were at libertie himself?

Ut vult Deus, as God will, is one of Cotton's very ordinary phrases in his common speech.

How did the King proscribe this man as a traytor, if this be not Cotton?

Why should he say, that his owne ultimus dies appropinquat, unlesse he do feare his owne execution for his fact, since he neither mentioneth age nor sicknesse?

His Dixi in aeternum doth declare, that although he hath given this second adventure to free himself out of prison, yet it is so dangerous, that he will do so no more: whereas if he were a man at libertie, he might dare to play these tricks twenty times.

How could any man so well know that the Archbishop had delt in this business, as Cotton who was so oft examined by him?

He both formerly and now protesteth that the matter of his Balaam's Asse was knowne to no creature but himself: but he doth not so of this, because he was forced to use another man's help, to bring it to the court.

Endorsed by the Archbishop.