"John Johnson." To this he adhered through two more examinations. "How old are you?" "Thirty-six." This was true. "Where were you born?" "In Netherdale, in the county of York." "How have you lived hitherto?" "By a farm of thirty pounds a year." "How came those wounds in your breast?" "They are scars from the healing of a pleurisy." The treatment of pleurisy in the seventeenth century was apparently rather severe. Fawkes went on to reply to the articles demanded, that he had never served any man but Percy--though he had been in the service of Anthony Browne, Lord Montague, a few months before: that he obtained Percy's service "only by his own means, being a Yorkshire man"; that he had learned French in England, and increased it when abroad; that he was born a Papist, and not perverted--which was false. Being asked why he was addressed as "Mr Fauks" in a letter (as he alleged) from Mrs Colonel Bostock, which was found in his pocket, Mr "Johnson" replied with the coolest effrontery, that it was because he had called himself so in Flanders, where Mrs Bostock resided. This letter was subsequently discovered to come from Anne Vaux. Thus far went King James's queries: in respect of which the King desired "if he will no other ways confesse, the gentle tortours to be first used unto him, _et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur_; and so God speede your good work!" It was not, however, necessary to urge a confession: Mr Percy's man seemed anxious to make a clean breast of it, and promised to tell everything. He proceeded accordingly to lead his examiners astray by a little truth and a good deal of falsehood. He gave a tolerably accurate account of the hiring of the house and the cellar, the bringing in of the powder, etcetera, except that he refrained from implicating any one but himself. There was, at first, a certain air of nobility about Fawkes, and he sternly refused to become an informer. He declined to admit his summer journey abroad, and would not allow that the spring excursion had any other object than "to see the country and pass away the time." "What would you have done," asked the examiners, "with the Queen and the royal issue?" "If they had been there, I would not have helped them." "If all had gone, who would have been published or elected King?" "We never entered into that consideration." "What form of government should have succeeded?"