Note 611 — Chapter XIV

Ibid., 505. “Tuesday the 30th June Wm. West esquier calling himself De La Ware was arraigned at the Guildhall in London for treason. But in the beginning of his arraignment he would not answer to his name of Wm. West esquier, but as Lord de la Ware, and to be tried by his peers, which the judges there with the heralds proved he was no lord, because he was never created nor made a lord by any writ to the Parliament, nor had any to show for his creation, wherefore that plea would not serve, and so had like to have had judgment without trial; but at last he answered to the name of Wm. West esquier, and so was tried by twelve men, and condemned of treason, as consenting to Henry Dudley and his adherants; and so had judgment as traitor” (Wriothesley, Chronicle, vol. ii., p. 135).