g up Raleigh's 'Main' with the 'Bye,' in
spite of the distinction which he himself had drawn. Raleigh appealed
against this once or twice, and at last showed signs of impatience. Coke
then suddenly turned upon him, and cried out, 'To whom, Sir Walter, did
you bear malice? To the royal children?' In the altercation that
followed, Coke lost his temper in earnest, and allowed himself to call
Raleigh 'a monster with an English face, but a Spanish heart.' He then
proceeded to state what the accusation of Sir Walter really amounted to,
and in the midst of the inexplicable chaos of this whole affair it may
be well to stand for a moment on this scrap of solid ground. Coke's
words were:

You would have stirred England and Scotland both. You incited
the Lord Cobham, as soon as Count Aremberg came into England, to
go to him. The night he went, you supped with the Lord Cobham,
and he brought you after supper to Durham House; and then the
same night by a back-way went with La Renzi to Count Aremberg,
and got from him a promise for the money. After this it was
arranged that the Lord Cobham should go to Spain and return by
Jersey, where you were to meet him about the distribution of the
money; because Cobham had not so much policy or wickedness as
you. Your intent was to set up the Lady Arabella as a titular
Queen, and to depose our present rightful King, the lineal
descendant of Edward IV. You pretend that this money was to
forward the Peace with Spain. Your jargon was 'peace,' which
meant Spanish invasion and Scottish subversion.

This was plain language, at least; this was the case for the
prosecution, stripped of all pedantic juggling; and Raleigh now drew
himself together to confute these charges as best he might. 'Let me
answer,' he said; 'it concerns my life;' and from this point onwards, as
Mr. Edwards remarks, the trial becomes a long and impassioned dialogue.
Coke refused to let Raleigh speak, and in this was supported by Popham,
a very old man, who owed his position in that court more to his age than
his talents, and who was solicitous to be on friendly terms with the
Attorney. Coke then proceeded to argue that Raleigh's relations with
Cobham had been notoriously so intimate that there was nothing
surprising or improbable in the accusation that he shared his guilt. He
then nimbly went on to expatiate with regard to the circumstances of
Cobham's treason, and was deft