[Footnote A: St. Winifred’s Well is at Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, and is sacred to St. Winifred of Wales, an early British Virgin and Martyr. Her “Life” will be found in Butler’s “_Lives of the Saints_,” under date November 3rd, her Feast Day. The waters of the Well are of healing quality, very copious and icy cold. There is an elegant mediæval stone Chapel built over the Well. (I visited this ancient shrine of a British Maiden——who still rules human hearts——in September, 1897, on my return from Ebbsfleet, where the thirteenth Centenary Commemorations had been held in honour of the spiritual grandsire and sire of the English race, the Italian Pope Gregory the Great and the Italian Benedictine Monk Augustine.)] GUNPOWDER PLOT BOOKS——NO. 153. [Abstract.] ii. Dec. 1605 [In Cal. 11 Dec. 1605.] “Th’examination of James Garvey serv^{t} to S^{r} Everard Digby * * * * * “Saieth about Bartholmew tide last his ladie roade to St. Wenefred’s Well from Gotehurst: first daie to Deyntrie:[A] 2 to Grantz:[B] 3 to Winters:[C] 4 to Mr. Lacon’s:[D] 5 to Shrewsberie: 6 to holte:[E] 7 to the well: they staied at the well but one night: and retorned the first day 2 to holt 2 to Mr. Banester’s at Wen[F] 2 to Mr. Lacon’s againe and so retorned to Gotehurst. [Footnote A: Daventry, Northamptonshire.] [Footnote B: John Grant’s, at Norbrook, Snitterfield, Warwickshire.] [Footnote C: Huddington Hall, near Droitwich, Worcestershire.] [Footnote D: Most probably at Kinlet Hall, about five miles from Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.] [Footnote E: Holt, in Denbighshire.] [Footnote F: Wem, Shropshire.] “Saieth ther were in that jorney the ladie Digby, Mrs. Vaux,[B] Mr. Brookysby and his wief Mr. Darcy[C] one Thomas Digby[D] a tall gentleman: one fisher[E] a little man: S^{r} frauncis Lacon and his daughter and two or 3 gentlemen more went with them from Mr. Lacon’s to the well, &c., &c. [Footnote B: Miss Anne Vaux.] [Footnote C: An alias of Father Garnet; Farmer was another of Garnet’s aliases.] [Footnote D: An uncle of Sir Everard, belike.] [Footnote E: An alias of Father Percy, afterwards famous for his historic controversy with Archbishop Laud.] (Endorsed) “11 Dec. 1605. “The Exam^{n} of James Garvie srv^{t} to S^{r} Everard Digby.” GUNPOWDER PLOT BOOKS——No. 121. [Abstract.] “Th’examination of William Handy servaunte to S^{r} Everard Digby taken the xxvij^{th} of November 1605 * * * * *