[Footnote A: The seat of Walter Carlile, Esquire, as has been already mentioned. I have to thank this gentleman for his courteousness in informing me that Gayhurst (formerly Gothurst) is three miles from Newport Pagnell. An excellent picture, together with descriptive account, of Gayhurst, is given in the “_Life of Sir Everard Digby_,” by one of that knight’s descendants. Gothurst contained a remarkable hiding-place, which was probably constructed by Nicholas Owen, the lay-brother of Father Garnet. According to Father Gerard, the friend of Digby, Gothurst was ten miles from Great Harrowden, the seat of the young Lord Vaux.] Now, who was Henry Garnet, whom the Attorney-General, Sir Edward Coke, described in Westminster Hall as “a man——grave, discreet, wise, learned, and of excellent ornament, both of nature and art;” but around whose name so fierce a controversy had raged for well-nigh 300 years? He was born in 1555, and brought up a Protestant of the Established Church; his father being Mr. Briant Garnet, the head master of the Free School, at Nottingham; his mother’s name was Alice Jay. Henry Garnet was a scholar of Winchester School, and the intention was to send him to New College, Oxford. However, he resolved to become reconciled to the Pope’s religion, and in 1575 joined the Jesuit Novitiate in Rome, where the great Cardinal Bellarmine was one of his tutors. Now, to the end that the claims of Truth and Justice, strict, severe, and impartial, may be met in relation to this celebrated English Jesuit, it will be necessary to repeat that as far back as about the beginning of Trinity Term (_i.e._, the 9th June, 1605), Catesby, in Thames Street, London——_outside the Confessional_——had propounded to Garnet a question, _which ought to have put the Jesuit expressly upon inquiry_. For that question was, in case it were lawful to kill a person or persons, whether it were necessary to regard the innocents which were present, lest they also should perish withal. And this the rather, when Catesby on that very occasion “made solemn protestation that he would never be known to have asked me [_i.e._, Garnet] any such question as long as he lived.”——See “Hatfield MS.,” printed in “_Historical Review_,” for July, 1888, and largely quoted in the Rev. J. Gerard’s articles on Garnet, in “_Month_” for June and July, 1901. On the 24th of July, 1605, Garnet had sent a remarkable letter to Rome, addressed to Father Aquaviva, the General of the Jesuits.——See “Father Gerard’s Narrative,” pp. 76, 77, in “_Condition of Catholics under James I._,” edited by Rev. John Morris, S.J. (Longmans, 1872).