friends and visitors were cut down to a fixed number. There is a list
among the Burleigh papers in the British Museum by which it appears that
Lady Raleigh, her maid, and her son might visit Sir Walter. For this
they took a house on Tower Hill near the old
fortress, where they lived six years, or as long as this privilege
lasted.

Then Sir Walter was to be allowed two men servants and a boy, who were
to remain within the Tower. Besides these he was permitted to see on
occasion, Mr Hawthorne, a clergyman ; Dr Turner, his physician } Mr
Johns, his surgeon ; Mr Sherbery, his solicitor ; his bailiff at
Sherburne ; and his old friend, Thomas Hariot, with no official
designation.

It needs no ears under the walls of the Tower to tell us what were the
duties of this learned and trusted friend, who had been Sir Walter's
confidential factor for a quarter of a century in all his most important
enterprises. Hariot, it will be perceived, was the only one named, in
this house-list, without an assigned profession. Fortunately there is
still preserved a ' hoggeshead of papers' in Hariot's handwriting,
ill-assorted and hitherto unsifted, which partially reveal the secrets
of this prison-house, and show Hariot here, there, and everywhere, mixed
up with all the studies, toils, experiments, books, and literary
ventures of our honored traitor.

So passed, with tantalizing uncertainty, the year 1605, with many fears
for the future and some hopes; but 1606 brought into the Tower Sir
Walter's old friend Henry Percy, another 'traitor.' With him, at first,
there was considerable liberality on the part of the officials (all paid
for), and both Raleigh and Percy had each a garden to cultivate and walk