Note 269 — Chapter XIV

“Immediately tofore Sir Robert Constable should receive his rights, it was asked of him if that his confession put in writing was all that he did know. To which he made answer that it was all. Notwithstanding he knew, besides that, sundry naughty words and high cracks that my Lord Darcy had blown out, which he thought not best to shew so long as the said lord was on life, partly because they should rather do hurt than good, and partly because he had no proof of them.

“But what these words were he would not declare, but in generality. Howbeit, his open confession was right good.”—MS. State Paper Office, first series, Vol. I.