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 was or was believed to be most deadly, "to be sure to hit his complexion." The murder was perpetrated with devilish perseverance. It appeared upon the trials that arsenic was always mixed with his salt; once he desired pig for dinner, and Mrs. Turner put into it lapis costitus; at another time he had two partridges sent him from the court, and water and onions being the sauce, Mrs. Turner put in cantharides instead of pepper, so that whatever he took was poisoned.

Overbury made his brags that he had won for Somerset the love of his Lady, by his letters and industryTo speak plainly, says Bacon in arraigning Somerset, Overbury had little that was solid for religion or moral virtue, but was wholly possest with ambition and vain glory,.. he was naught and corrupt,.. a man of unbounded and impudent spirit.

Mrs. Turner's execution affected the fashions.