Note 179 — ANNALS (continued 2)

This was also published in Latin and in Dutch. It is reprinted in the Harleian Mis., vol. iii. Throckmorton was put on the rack but made no admissions. Threatened again with the rack, he “voluntarily” made a confession which he afterwards withdrew. But this sufficed. The crime charged against him was “bringing in of Foreigners into England, and deposing the Queen” (Camden, in Kennett’s “Complete History,” ii. 497-8).