196
Father Greenway’s statement, that while the rebels were in the field, messengers came post haste continually one after the other, from the capital, all bearing proclamations mentioning Percy by name (Gerard, p. 155) is disposed of by the fact that there were only three proclamations in which Percy’s name was mentioned, dated the 5th, the 7th, and the 8th. Percy was killed on the morning of the 8th, and even the messenger who started on the 7th can hardly have known that the sheriff had gone to Holbeche, and consequently could not himself have reached that place while Percy was living.
197
See p. 11.
198
T. Winter’s examination, November 25 (G. P. B. No. 116). Compare Tresham’s declaration of November 13 (ib. No. 63).
199
Jardine’s Gunpowder Plot, p. 91.
200
Add. MSS. 11,402, fol. 109.
201
Smith’s Antiquities of Westminster, p. 41.
202
See p. 31.
203
On this, see p. 110.
204
Gerard, p. 126, note 1.
205
In an earlier part of the letter we are told of ‘Johnson,’ that ‘on Tuesday at midnight, as he was busy to prepare his things for execution was apprehended in the place itself, with a false lantern, booted and spurred.’
206
S. P. France.
207
See p. 31. I give the extract in the form received by Edmondes, that printed in Winwood, ii. 170, received by Cornwallis, being slightly different.
208
i. e. ‘owned.’
209
Gerard, p. 127.
210
Winwood, ii. 170.
211
Chamberlain to Carleton, November 7. —S. P. Dom. xvi. 23.
212
See p. 99.
213
G. P. B. No. 129.
214
Winwood, ii. 170.
215
These words look as if he had been found not in the passage but in the court.
216
He was a favourite dependent of Knyvet’s, who, on April 10, 1604, had recommended him for an office in the Tower. —S. P. Dom. vii. 18.
217
See my History of England, 1603-1642, i. 80, 81.
218
I.e. Guardians.
219
Correspondence of King James VI. with Sir Robert Cecil, pp. 31, 33, 36.
220
Correspondence of King James VI. with Sir Robert Cecil, p. 75.