of those that killed Godfrey, and that, if he would confess, he could make great discoveries. Upon which the Lords obtained his pardon of the King, and went on Monday with it to the dungeon, where they were a considerable time: my Lord Winchester, Lord Essex, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Grey.
"The King went to my Lord Winchester, and asked him what they had discovered. He answered, not anything, that the fellow seemed to be an idle fellow, and contradicted himself, which very well satisfied the King, but they had entered into a solemn oath not to discover anything; and, on Monday night, they obtained a warrant from Secretary Williamson to search Somerset House,[1] where they found all the people, save one, that he told them of, and they seized them. This made a great noise yesterday; and this fellow, who is a silversmith, and used to clean the plate at the Queen's Chapel, was brought before the King and Council, and, upon search made, they are now satisfied that the murder was done at Somerset House. The King himself begins to believe it. My Lord Bel-
- ↑ Somerset House had been the Jointure House of the Dowager Queen Henrietta Maria. It was at this time occasionally the residence of Queen Catherine.
