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solicited by Gifford to kill the Queen and the Earl of Leicester. Furthermore, divers other proofs were brought forth by confession of others, all agreeing to Savage's confession.

Sir C. Hatton.—"Savage, I must ask thee one question: was not all this willingly and voluntarily confessed by thyself, with- out menacing, without torture, or without offer of any torture?"

Savage.—"Yes."

Clerk of the Crown.—"John Ballard, Anthony Babington, John Savage, Robert Barnewell, Chidiock Titchburne, Thomas Salisbury, and Henry Donn, hold up your hands; which being done, he said, before this tune you were indicted before Sir Edmund Anderson, knight, and others, &c. by virtue of her majesty's commission, &c. That whereas Barnardino de Mendoz, aSpaniard, and Charles Pagget, the 26th day of April, 1586, at Paris, in France, did maliciously and wickedly devise by what ways and means this realm of England might be invaded, and by what ways and means Mary Queen of Scots might be delivered: it was concluded then, that thou the said John Ballard should go into this realm of England, to understand and know what ports and landings might be procured and provided for the enemy's invasion, and for to Jearn by what means and ways the said Mary Queen of Scots might be delivered from the custody wherein she was. And that thou the said John Ballard, coming into this realm of England; you the said Anthony Babington, John Savage, Robert Barnewell, Chidiock Titchburne, Thomas Salisbury, and Henry Donn, as false traitors against the crown, and the queen's most excellent majesty, your true and natural sovereign ; intending to put away the love of her majesty's most loving subjects, the 5th day of June, in the 28th year ofthe reign of our sovereign lady Queen Elizabeth, by the grace of God, &c. at St. Giles's in the Fields, within the county of Middlesex, did falsely, horribly, traitorously and devilishly, conspire, conclude and agree, the queen's most excellent majesty not only from her royal crown and dignity to depose, but also her to kill and slay; and sedition, insurrection, and rebellion to stir up and procure, and the government of this realm, and the true and christian religion therein planted to subvert, and the whole state thereof for to destroy; and for to raise and levy war within the realm. And thou the said John Ballard, the 17th day of June, in the 28th year aforesaid, at St. Giles's aforesaid, in the county of Middlesex aforesaid, didst go to have speech, and confer with thee the said Anthony Babington, by what means and ways your false traitorous imagined practices might be brought to pass. And that thou the said Join Ballard didst oftentimes declare of an army of the pepe, and the King of Spain, for to invade this realm; and didst also declare that Pagget and Mendoza required them the said Babington, Savage, &c. to procure means how this realm of England might be invaded. And that there thou the said