‘… Raleigh still maintained his innocence “but with a mind the most dejected that ever I saw.” Two days later, he again spoke of Raleigh's “so strange a dejected mind” and said that “his fortitude is [not] competent to support his grief.”’

‘… yet one afternoon, whilst divers of us were in the Tower, examining some of these prisoners, he attempted to have murdered himself: whereof when we were advertised, we came to him and found him in some agony, seeming to be unable to endure his misfortunes, and protesting innocency, with carelessness of life; and, in that humour, he had wounded himself under his right pappe, but no way mortally, being, in truth, rather a cut than a stab, and now very well cured both in body and mind.’

‘… I cannot live to think how I am derided, to think of the expectation of my enemies, the scorns I shall receive, the cruel words of lawyers, the infamous taunts and despites, to be made a wonder and a spectacle! Oh, death! hasten thee unto me, that thou mayest destroy the memory of these, and lay me up in dark forgetfulness! Oh, death! destroy my memory, which is my tormentor; my thoughts and my life cannot dwell in one body.’

‘… Sr Walter Rawley his hurte wyll be whn [within] these two days pfectly hoole; he doth styll contyneue pplexed as you leffte hym. … his spirites ar exceeding muche declined, hisgrowne passionate in lamentatyon and sorrowe …’