Note 586 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

James made it a merit with the court of Madrid, that he had put to death a man so capable of serving him merely to give them satisfaction. Somers Tracts, ii. 437. There is even reason to suspect that he betrayed the secret of Raleigh's voyage to Gondomar, before he sailed. Hardwicke, State Papers, i. 398. It is said in Mr. Cayley's Life of Raleigh that his fatal mistake in not securing a pardon under the great seal was on account of the expense. But the king would have made some difficulty at least about granting it.