CHAPTER XXV

THE BISHOP'S MOVE Sir Thomas Overbury was ill in body and in mind, and it may well be that his bodily sickness derived from his mental distemper. Denied exercise or visitors, or communication of any kind with the outside world--saving only my Lord Rochester--he was treated, as he violently complained to the new Lieutenant, with as much rigour as if he had conspired against the State or plotted against the life of the King. Sir Gervase Elwes, that grave, dull man, gave a stolidly courteous attention to his plaints, …