Abstract
N explanation of a curious kind of mercy occurs in Secretary Robert Cecil's letter to Sir Ralph Winwood on December I2, i603, from the Court at Wilton. It will be remembered that *ffiX He Sir Walter Raleigh had defended himself against the charge of high treason, chiefly against the imputations of the Attorney General Sir Edward Coke in the trial held at Winchester on the preceding i7th of November. Yet Sir Walter and Lord Cobham with the others were nevertheless convicted. Two priests were executed on November 2gth; George Brook, the younger brother of Lord Cobham, was executed on December 5th; these were the conspirators named in the so-called Bye-Plot. But there remained the execution of the conspirators in the Plot of the Main, alleged in the case of rich Lord Cobham to have accepted a relatively paltry bribe from the Spaniards, the involvement thereby of Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Grey, and Sir Griffin Markham. Cecil's letter is rather long, but two excerpts from it, dealing with mercy, follow:
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