an expeditious and simple manner ; and by proposing various
problems to us, enabled us to exercise our ingenuity in the
profundities of this science.

But time and space beckon. On the 24th of March 1603, set 'that bright
occidental Star,' and ' that mock Sun' fræ the north took by succession
its place. To Raleigh the change was the setting of a great hope, for to
Queen Elizabeth he owed his fortunes, and was proud of the debt. To
Raleigh more than to any other one man, notwithstanding his many faults,
the Queen owed the brilliancy of her Court, the efficacy and terror of
her navy, the enterprise and intelligent energy of her people, to say
nothing of the adventurous spirit of colonization which he awoke in his
efforts in Western Planting. The glory of his achievements today is the
glory alike of England and English America. King James let no man down
so far as he did Raleigh. Perhaps it was because there was no one left
of Elizabeth's Court who could fall so far.

On three trumped up charges which never were, and never could be
sustained with due form of law, Raleigh was with small delay thrown into
the Tower. Several other noblemen and less eminent persons were sent
there also. The Asiatic plague was raging in the City. A moral
pestilence of equal virulence at the same time infested the Court. The
State prisoners must be tried openly, though already secretly condemned.
The Judges of his ' dread Majesty' dared not venture to the Tower as
usual for the trials, forgetting apparently that its precincts were just
as unhealthy for the great prisoners of State as for them, who were
liable any day on the miffs of majesty to change places.

So it was determined that the' traitors' should be carted down to
Winchester for trial. A cold wet November seven-days' journey through