The name “Vaux of Harrowden” is still to be found in the bead-roll of English Roman Catholic Peers. And, along with such historic names as Norfolk, Mowbray and Stourton, Petre, Arundell of Wardour, Stafford, Clifford of Chudleigh, and Herries, the name “Vaux of Harrowden” was appended to “the Roman Catholic Peers’ Protest,” dated from the House of Lords, 14th February, 1901, addressed to the Earl of Halsbury, Lord High Chancellor of England, anent “the Declaration against Popery,” that Our Most Gracious King Edward VII. was compelled, by Act of Parliament, to utter on the occasion of meeting His Majesty’s first Parliament.] CHAPTER LI. On the 4th of October, Father Garnet wrote a long letter to Father Parsons in Rome, who was then virtually the ruler of the Catholics of England, though that sturdy Yorkshireman, Father John Mush,[A] among secular priests, together with many others, resented being dictated to by Father Parsons, certainly a man of great genius, but indulging too much the mere “wire-puller” instinct and propensity to be reckoned a prince among ecclesiastical statesmen. [Footnote A: Mush may have been of the Mushes, of Knaresbrough, stanch Catholics, but in humble circumstances.——See Peacock’s “_List_.”] This letter of Father Garnet’s, to which reference has been just made, is a remarkable production. It begins as follows:—— “My very loving Sir, “This I write from the elder Nicholas[A] his residence where I find my hostess with all her posterity very well; and we are to go within few days nearer London.” [Footnote A: Father Nicholas Hart, S.J., as distinguished from Brother Nicholas Owen, S.J.] The letter then says:—— “The judges now openly protest that the King will have blood and hath taken blood in Yorkshire.”[B] [Footnote B: The “Venerable” Thomas Welbourn and John Fulthering suffered at York on the 1st August, 1605; and William Brown at Ripon on the 5th September.——See Challoner’s “_Missionary Priests_.” Ed. by T. G. Law (Jack, Edinburgh).] There were four paragraphs at the end of the letter. Now, a short but separate paragraph of three lines is carefully obliterated between the first and the third of these paragraphs. The third paragraph ends thus:—— “_I cease 4th Octobris._” The fourth paragraph then continues:—— “My hostesses both and their children salute you. Sir Thomas Tresham is dead.”[C]