Note 252 — Chapter XIV

“And whereas your lordship doth write that, in case the consciences of such persons as did acquit Levening should be examined, the fear thereof might trouble others in like case, the King’s Majesty considering his treason to be most manifest, apparent, and confessed, and that all offenders in that case be principals, and none accessories, doth think it very necessary that the means used in that matter may be searched out, as a thing which may reveal many other matters worthy his Highness’s knowledge; and doth therefore desire you not only to signify their names, but also to travel all that you can to beat out the mystery.”—Privy Council to the Duke of Norfolk: Hardwicke State Papers, Vol. I. p. 46.