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serious and private conference, the Duke, at his Majesty’s departing, embraced him in a very unusual and passionate manner, and in like sort his friend the Earl of Holland, as if his soul had divined he should see them no more. Which infusions towards fatal ends have been observed by some authors of no light authority. On the very day of his death, the Countess of Denbeigh received a letter from him; whereunto all the while she was writing her answer, she bedewed her paper with her tears; and after a bitter passion, whereof she could yield no reason, but that her dearest brother was to be gone, she fell down in a swoon. Her said letter ended thus: “I will pray for your happy return, which I look at with a great cloud over my head, too heavy for my poor heart to bear without torment; but I hope the great God of heaven will bless you.” The day following, the bishop of Ely, her devoted friend, who was thought the fittest preparer of her mind to receive