the river Thames syx myles beyonde Gravesende, to the intente to transporte the same Anthonie Fortescue, Arthur Pole, and the resydue of the conspirators left behinde, into Flaunders, to the intente to performe the seyd trayterous conspiracyes.
Item, yt is further found, that the same Arthur Pole, and other the conspirators abovenamed, being lefte behinde in Englande, came into the sayd boate so provyded: and therein layd dyvers armures and certeyn munytyon for warre, and sommes of money, and other things necessarye for theyr sayd journey: and also remayned in a certen inne called the Dolphyn, for opportunyty of tyme, to be conveyed by the same boate into the seyd hoye, and therein to be transported into Flaunders to the entents aforeseyd. And hereuppon the same indytemente concludeth with this effecte uppon all theis matters aforeseyd, layd together, that the seyd conspirators dyd compasse and ymagyne the deposinge, death, and fynall destruction of our soveraigne ladye the queen."
The above is a copy from the Cecil MSS.
The parties indicted upon this matter, were, by the whole consent of the judges of the realm then in being, arraigned and adjudged traytors at Westminster: but the queen, of her clemency, and perhaps from the consideration of their being, at least the Poles, of the blood royal, spared their lives.
It should seem, however, that both Arthur and Edmund Poole were confined during their lives in the Tower: for in the register of the Tower chapel there remain between the years 1565 and 1578 the two following entries:
"Mr. Arthur Poole buried in the chappell."
"Mr. Arthur Poole's brother buried in the chappell."
Plate VII. Miscellaneous arms, ciphers, and inscriptions.
"En Dieu est mon Esperance."
I suppose this to have been done by Henry the VIIIth earl of
