76 Account of Infcnpttons difcovered on the Walls of
realm, and to move the fubjedls to ryfe and rebell againft the queene, and to make the faid Skottyme queen queen of this realme, and to depofe our fovereign ladye. Item, that the feyd Skottiih queen, after me hadd been fo pre- ferred to the crowne of this realme, fhould create the fayd Arthur Pole duke of Clarence. Item, yt is farther founde by the feyd indytements, that after the fayd confpyrators had arryved in Flanders, they wolde lende letters to one Goldewell, late bifhopp of St. Afaphe, then being at Rome, to be meane to the pope, for his ayde in theis confpyracies, with promyfe of reftitufion of relygion within this realme of Inglandt, for fuch his ayde and helpe. Item, yt is founde that Preftall and Coiyn, two of the fayd con^ fpyrators, dyd invocate a wicked fpryte, and demaunded of him the beft waye to bring all their treafons to pafle : and that An- thony Fortefcue, one of the feyd confpyrators, dyd open unto the French embaflador and unto the Spanim embafTador, the feyd tra- terous devyces, by the confente of the fayd Arthur Pole, and the refydue of the feyd confpyrators ; with requeft unto both the fame embafladors to hand their letters unto the French king, and to the feyd duke of Guyfe, for their ayde in performance of the fayd trea- fons ; declaringe unto the fame embafladors the juft title which the feyd Arthur Pole hadde to the feyd dukedom of Clarence. Item, yt is further founde, that the faid Preftall and Coiyn, to the intents aforefcyd, dyd goe into the feyd partes beyonde the feas; and that the feyd Anthonye Fortefcue, by the confente of the feyd Arthur Pole, and the refidue of the feyd confpyrators, dyd hyer a boate to be brought unto St. Olyve's ftayres, nyghe unto London Brydge, to the intente to convey in the fame the fayd Fortefcue and other of the fame confpirators, being left behind after the departure of the feyd Preftall and Coiyn, unto a Flemilh hoye, beingc uppon the