Concerning the poysoning of the Lord Marquess Hamelton.

The Marquis of Hamilton being also poysoned, he was no sooner dead, but the force of the poyson overcame the force of his body, and it began to swell in such sort, That his Thighes were swolne six times as big as their naturall pro∣portion: his belly became as big as the belly of an Oxe, his armes as the naturall quantity of his Thighes his neck so broad as his shoulders, his Cheeks over the top of his Nose, that his Nose could not be seene or distinquished, the skin of his fore-head, two fingers high swelled, the haire of his beard eye-browes and Head, so farre distant one from mother, as if an hundred had been taken out betweene each one, and when one did touch the hair it came away with the skin as easily, as if one had pulled hay out of an heap of hay he was all over his neck, breast, shoulders, armes, and brows I say of divers colours full of water of the same colour, some white, some black, some red, some yellow, some green some blew, and that as well within his body as without.

Also the concavities of his liver green, his stomack in some places, a little purpvrated with a blew clammy water adhering to the sides of it, his mouth & nose foming bloud mixt with froth mightly, of divers colours a yard high.