He was tried and condemned for high treason, yet continued to declare himself ignorant of the plot.

He proved that in the war of Ireland, as well as in Flanders, he had treated the English prisoners with great humanity.

The lords desisted from the prosecution; he obtained a reprieve, and died in Newgate.

On the twenty-ninth day of January, the earl of Nottingham told the house that the queen had commanded him to lay before them the papers containing all the particulars hitherto discovered of the conspiracy in Scotland; but that there was one circumstance which could not yet bo properly communicated without running the risk of preventing a discovery of greater importance.

They forthwith drew up and presented an address, desiring that all the papers might be immediately submitted to their inspection.
The queen said she did not expect to be pressed in this manner immediately after the declaration she had made; but in a few days the earl of Nottingham delivered the papers, sealed, to the house, and all the lords were summoned to attend on the eighth day of February, that they might be opened and perused.