Catalogue description THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S relation.

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Details of 8ANC7/164
Reference: 8ANC7/164
Title: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S relation.
Description:

--" Concerning the apple whiche was founde at Whitehall, November 5, 1613, and how easily it might bee sent from John Cotton.

 

" Mr. Lieutenant being demanded before the Kinge's majesty whither John Cotton had any apples in his chamber in the Tower, hee said that hee had apples to putt into his wine, and that hee himselfe had bene a little before in Cotton's chamber, and there seene a bigge apple sett over his chimney. He acknowledged also that Cotton had penne, inke, and paper: for the free permission whereof hee was reprooved before the Kinge. Being asked whither Cotton did not sometimes walke out of his chamber, hee said that hee did, and that his walking was upon the leads over his chamber. Being demanded what place was underneath when Cotton was upon the leads, his answere was that it was a common garden, whereinto every man came that would.

 

" This being then delivered in the presence of his Majesty, it appeered afterward by the examinations of Talbot the Irish lawyer and John Cotton himselfe, that Cotton ordinarily did at his pleasure walke upon a long tarrase which adjoyned to the garden, and that the said Cotton and Talbot had frequently and at pleasure conference together. For permitting heereof Mr. Lieutenant turned away Cotton's keeper.

 

" And it is evident by the examinations of Sir George Cotton, and of the warder who afterward kept John Cotton, that Sir George Cotton went often to the Tower, and spake diverse times with John Cotton, the one beinge on the walke, and the other in the garden below, wheere any thinge might bee cast up and downe in a hatt, and the lead in all probability was putt on the apple to preserve it from breaking, when it was cast downe, being wrapped in paper.

 

" Now it is well knowne, that Sir George Cotton was John Cotton's brother, and dwelt not farre of from Whitehall, whither he oftentimes repaired, and so might be a fitt meanes to convay any thinge to John Cotton in the Tower, or from John Cotton to Whitehall. And what his disposition in religion was, it is sufficiently knowne, hee being an obstinate recusant, convicted at Newgate Sessions for denying to take the othe of allegeance, for the which hee remained in prison till hee dyed."

 

Signed by the Archbishop.

Date: [After 1613.]
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1¼ pages.

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