James Bottled It. Francis Howard Was Pardoned

Bacon was thoroughly convinced of somerset's guilt. But the actual evidence, inconveniently enough, was skinny in the extreme. There was no firm evidence he had known about the plot. No evidence he had been involved in administering or supplying poisons. By the time he was able to make his defence, it was late in the evening,. The weakness of his case was that he couldn't really provide an answer as to why overbury had died - but als why he had destroyed all those papers in a blue funk. He managed to present a good, powerful case to his peers, but in the end, it was not enough, and the lords found him guilty.