. The Roxburghe ballads. ey defended himself,couusel not being at that time allowed to plead for persons in his situation, wegive some few particulars on later pages (452 and 453). The one weak point ofhis defence seems to be his dependence on the Prosecution not having sufficientproof that the alleged treason-papers were composed and written by him. Wehave no reason to doubt that they were in his actual handwriting and expressed hissentiments in his own language. Their similarity to his handwriting was sworn,and he did not absolutely deny that he had written them, but neither did he admitit.
. The Roxburghe ballads. ey defended himself,couusel not being at that time allowed to plead for persons in his situation, wegive some few particulars on later pages (452 and 453). The one weak point ofhis defence seems to be his dependence on the Prosecution not having sufficientproof that the alleged treason-papers were composed and written by him. Wehave no reason to doubt that they were in his actual handwriting and expressed hissentiments in his own language. Their similarity to his handwriting was sworn,and he did not absolutely deny that he had written them, but neither did he admitit. He indicated that they could not have been recent, by the faded ink : there-fore, he cannot have suspected that they were newly fabricated, to pass forgeriesfor his genuine autograph and ensure his ruin. Better to have fully admitted hisauthorship of them, as having been written long ago, consequently pardonedby the act of indemnity. Without papers, Howard alone would have been apowerless witness against Algernon 429 Coilonel £>itmt?s lamentation, ano last JFaretoei to tge motlb. Tune of, What name. [Sic, see Note on p. 428.]
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