[Footnote C: The hostesses would be those valiant women, Elizabeth Dowager Lady Vaux of Harrowden (_née_ Roper), the Honourable Eleanor Brookesby, and the Honourable Anne Vaux. William Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who harboured Father Parsons in 1580-81, had married for his second wife a sister of Sir Thomas Tresham. This Lord Vaux’s eldest son Ambrose, a priest, resigned his title in favour of his half-brother the Honourable George Vaux, afterwards Lord Vaux of Harrowden. The first wife of William Lord Vaux was Elizabeth Beaumont, of Gracedieu, Leicestershire. She was the mother of Ambrose, Elizabeth, and Anne Vaux. Father Garnet for many years lived at Harrowden, from 1586 as the guest of William Lord Vaux, whose son, George Lord Vaux of Harrowden, married Elizabeth Roper, daughter of the first Lord Teynham. This lady was the above-named Dowager Lady Vaux of Harrowden, mother of Edward Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who became as “noble a confessor for the Faith” as were his numerous other relatives. (The present Lord Vaux of Harrowden, whose family name is Mostyn, is descended from the above-mentioned Lords Vaux, through the female line.)] _Here ends the body of the letter._ CHAPTER LII. _After the body of the letter there is a post scriptum._ Now, there are nine words in the _post scriptum_ that suffice to clench the argument of this book. And why? Because, I respectfully submit, those nine words show that between the 4th day of October, 1605, _and_ the 21st day of October, Garnet had received from somewhere _intelligence to the effect that machinery was being put into motion whereby the Plot would be squashed_. For the _post scriptum_ to this letter of Father Garnet is as follows:—— “_21º Octobris._ “This letter being returned unto me again, FOR REASON OF A FRIEND’S STAY IN THE WAY, I blotted out some words, purposing to write the same by the next opportunity, as I will do apart. “I have a letter from Field, the Journeyman in Ireland, who telleth me that of late, there was a very severe proclamation against all ecclesiastical persons, and a general command for going to the churches, with a solemn protestation that the King never promised nor meant to give toleration. “I pray you speak to Claude, and to grant them, or obtain for them all the faculties we have here; for so he earnestly desireth, and is scrupulous. I gave unto two of them, that passed by me, all we have; and I think it sufficient in law; for being here, they were my subjects, and we have our faculties also for Ireland, for the most part. I pray you procure them a general grant for their comfort.” The letter and the _post scriptum_ are alike unsigned. The letter and the _post scriptum_ are still in existence, and, I believe, are preserved in London in the archives of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster.