Catalogue description GEORGE, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, to SIR FRANCIS BACON, Attorney-General.

--"By a letter yesterday received from the Court, I finde that his Majesty is advertised that Talbot and John Cotton, being both committed close prisoners in the Tower, have had speeche together, upon a walke whiche lyeth betweene the lodgings in whiche they two remaine. And thereupon his Majesty thinketh that Talbot is growne more obstinate in his opinions then otherwise hee would have bene. It is therefore the pleasure of his Highnesse, that when you and the rest of his learned Counsel go to the Tower to question Talbot, you should examine severally both the saide Talbot and John Cotton, when, where, and how oft they have seene one the other since their commitment, what speeche they have had together, and how oft, with other circumstances appertaining to suche a businesse. Let not the one of them knowe that the other is examined, and so leave them with charge to Mr. Lieutenant that they bee kept close the one from the other."

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