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76 realm, and to move the subjects to ryse and rebell against the queene, and to make the said Skottyshe queen queen of this realme, and to depose our sovereign ladye.

Item, that the seyd Skottish queen, after she hadd been so preferred to the crowne of this realme, should create the sayd Arthur Pole duke of Clarence.

Item, yt is farther founde by the seyd indytements, that after the sayd conspyrators had arryved in Flanders, they wolde sende letters to one Goldewell, late bishopp of St. Asaphe, then being at Rome, to be meane to the pope, for his ayde in theis conspyracies, with promyse of restitusion of relygion within this realme of Inglandt, for such his ayde and helpe.

Item, yt is founde that Prestall and Cosyn, two of the sayd conspyrators, dyd invocate a wicked spryte, and demaunded of him the best waye to bring all their treasons to passe: and that Anthony Fortescue, one of the seyd conspyrators, dyd open unto the French embassador and unto the Spanish embassador, the seyd traterous devyces, by the consente of the sayd Arthur Pole, and the resydue of the seyd conspyrators; with request unto both the same embassadors to hand their letters unto the French king, and to the seyd duke of Guyse, for their ayde in performance of the sayd treasons; declaringe unto the same embassadors the just title which the seyd Arthur Pole hadde to the seyd dukedom of Clarence.

Item, yt is further founde, that the faid Prestall and Cosyn, to the intents aforeseyd, dyd goe into the seyd partes beyonde the seas; and that the seyd Anthonye Fortescue, by the consente of the seyd Arthur Pole, and the residue of the seyd conspyrators, dyd hyer a boate to be brought unto St. Olyve's stayres, nyghe unto London Brydge, to the intente to convey in the same the fayd Fortescue and other of the same conspirators, being left behind after the departure of the seyd Prestall and Cosyn, unto a Flemish hoye, beings uppon the