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271

See p. 41.

272

Gerard, p. 179. I do not think his argument on this point conclusive, but obviously it would be useless to forge a document unless it was to be used in evidence.

273

Harl. MSS. 360, fol. 96.

274

Gerard, p. 170.

275

Salisbury’s Minute to Favat, Dec. 4, 1605. —Add. MSS. 6178, fol. 98.

276

Gerard, p. 181.

277

An alias for Garnet.

278

Salisbury to Edmondes, March 8, 1606. —Stowe MSS. 168, fol. 366.

279

Harl. MSS. 360, fol. 117.

280

Ib. fol. 113.

281

Add. MSS. 21203, fol. 38 b.

282

A true and perfect relation. Sig. G., 2, verso.

283

Ib., Sig. K., 3.

284

Morris’s Condition of Catholics, 210. A Latin translation of part of the letter was printed in 1610, by Eudæmon Joannes, Ad actionem proditoriam, &c., p. 6.

285

G. P. B., No. 166.

286

See the express words ascribed to Bates at p. 180.

287

See p. 190.

288

Sir E. Digby’s Papers, No. 9, published at the end of Bishop Barlow’s reprint of The Gunpowder Treason.

289

The Saturday or Sunday after the octave of Corpus Christi, i. e., June 8 or 9, old style, which seems to have been used, as the same day is described as being about the beginning of Trinity Term, which began on May 31.

290

Garnet’s Declaration, March 9. —Hist. Rev., July 1888 pp. 510-517.

291

The letter is printed in Tierney’s Dodd, iv. App. cix., where there is an argument in a note to show that the part from which I am about to quote came from a later letter. For my purpose the date is immaterial.

292

Garnet’s Declaration, March 9. —Hist. Rev., July 1888, pp. 510-517.

293

Garnet’s Declaration, March 10. Hist. Rev., July 1888, p. 517.

294

The author of Sir Everard Digby’s life writes: – “I fully admit that if Father Garnet was weak, his weakness was owing to an excess of kindheartedness and a loyalty to his friends that bordered on extravagance.” (The Life of a Conspirator, by ‘One of his Descendants,’ p. 134.) It will be noticed that I am inclined to go further than this.

295

In addition to what has been already said, a letter from the Nuncio at Brussels to Dr. Gifford, written on July 22/Aug. 1, 1604, may be quoted. He says that the Pope ‘paratissimum esse ea omnia pro suâ in Catholicos authoritate facere quæ Serenissimæ suæ Majestati securitatem suæ personæ, et status procurare possunt, eosque omnes e regno evocare quos sua Majestas rationabiliter judicaverit regno et statui [MS. statuti] suo noxios fore.’ —Tierney’s Dodd, App. No. 5.