[Footnote 36:——So that the Plot was first hatched about Easter, 1604.——See Dr. S. R. Gardiner’s “_What Gunpowder Plot was_,” as to the decisive causes of the Plot.——Jardine, in his “_Narrative_” (pp. 45 and 46), thinks that the Star-Chambering of that aged but charming Roman Catholic gentleman, Thomas Pounde, Esquire, of Belmont, Hampshire, contributed to the causes of the Plot. This is very probable. Pounde was first cousin to the father of the Earl of Southampton, the patron and friend of Shakespeare. Pounde was a devoted friend of Campion, and himself a Jesuit lay-brother. He spent a large part of his life in prison. He was attired in prison as became his rank and fortune, and was, besides being a “mystical” Catholic, a most accomplished Elizabethan gentleman.——See “_Jesuits in Conflict_” (Burns & Oates).] [Footnote 37:——_I.e._, according to Winter, about two months after.] [Footnote 38:——See pp. 269 and 271 of the Rev. John Gerard’s, S.J., work, “_What was the Gunpowder Plot?_” (Osgood, McIlvaine, & Co., 1897).] [Footnote 39:——_I.e._, a Prayer Book. Sir Everard Digby appears to have been sworn in by Robert Catesby on the cross formed by the hilt of a poniard.——See “_Life of Sir Everard Digby_.”] [Footnote 40:——It is also said that Catesby “peremptorily demanded of his associates a promise that they would not mention the project, even in Confession, lest their ghostly fathers should discountenance and hinder it.”——See “_The Month_,” No. 369, pp. 353, 4.——This would be to make assurance double sure. But, happily, the “best laid schemes o’ men gang aft agley.” “For there is on earth a yet auguster thing, veiled though it be, than Parliament or King”——the human conscience, which is “prophet in its informations, a monarch in its peremptoriness, a priest in its blessings and anathenas” (John Henry Newman). Also, “Conscience is the knowledge with oneself of the better and the worse” (James Martineau).] [Footnote 41:——See Jardine’s “_Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot_,” p. 41.] [Footnote 42:——The Most Hon. the Marquess of Ripon, K.G., Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the Marchioness of Ripon, C.I., of Studley Royal, near Ripon, are descended from this leile-hearted and chivalrous Yorkshire race, in whom so many idealistic, stately souls, of a long buried Past, claim kindred.