From Brief Lives by John Aubrey :

“At a consultation in Whitehall, after Queen Elizabeth’s death how matters were to be ordered and what ought to be done, Sir Walter Ralegh declared his opinion, ’twas the wisest way for them a group or cabal of which Ralegh was a member to keep the government in their own hands … It seems there were some in this cabal who kept not this so secret but that it came to King James’s ears; who, where the English noblesse met and received him, being told upon their presentment to his majesty their names, when Sir Walter Ralegh’s name was told ‘Ralegh’, said the King ‘On my soul, man, I have heard rawly of thee’.”