But, surely, Father Morris’s argument is feeble in the extreme when regard is had to the fact that poor Henry Garnet’s mind, _from the 25th July, 1605, when he first heard from Tesimond, by way of confession, the general particulars of the Plot, down to the 4th of October, 1605_, was a very weltering chaos of grief, distress, and perplexity. And, therefore, the most natural thing in the world was for him to exhibit a trifle of eccentricity in the style of his epistolary correspondence, in such trying circumstances, even with so acute and caustic a critic as Father Parsons. I have said that about the 25th July, 1605 (St. James’-tide), Garnet had, by way of confession, the _general particulars_ of the Plot, because I think that Garnet obtained from Tesimond final details of the Plot at Great Harrowden a fortnight before Michaelmas (11th October); in fact, after the return from St. Winefrid’s Well, in Flintshire, Wales. It is, however, probable that about the 21st of October, at Gothurst, Tesimond may have made a further communication to Garnet, possibly in consequence of Garnet’s sending for Tesimond _after_ he (Garnet) had received “_the friend’s stay in the way_.” For the old tradition was that Garnet _first_ had particulars from Tesimond, by way of confession, about the 21st October. (See the earlier editions of Lingard’s “_History_.”) But, of course, this was an error by _three months_, Garnet first receiving at least general particulars from Tesimond about the 25th of July. (At some future date I may, perhaps, write an essay on “_Garnet after the 21st October, 1605_,” but at present I have not space to pursue this matter further.)] SUPPLEMENTA. SUPPLEMENTUM I. GUY FAWKES. The forefathers of Guy Fawkes almost certainly sprang from Nidderdale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. See Foster’s “_Yorkshire Families_,” under Hawkesworth, of Hawkesworth, and Fawkes, of Farnley. Guy’s grandfather was William Fawkes, of York, who married a York lady, Ellen Harrington.[A] [Footnote A: Ellen Harrington’s father was Lord Mayor of York, in the reign of Henry VIII., in the year 1536.] William Fawkes became Registrar of the Exchequer Court of the Archbishop of York, and died between the years 1558-1565. William Fawkes had two sons and two daughters——Thomas Fawkes, a merchant-stapler, and Edward Fawkes, a Notary or Proctor of the Ecclesiastical Court, and afterwards an Advocate of the Consistory Court of the Archbishop of York. (Certainly it is a strange and bitter irony that an ancestry like this should have brought forth such a moral monster as poor Guy Fawkes afterwards became. But our guiding motto must be: “Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”)