I readily allow that it is difficult to believe that neither Salisbury, nor Suffolk, nor anybody (not even a bird-like-eyed Dame Quickly of busy-bodying propensities residing in the neighbourhood) knew of this powder, which had been (at least some of it) in Percy’s house and an outhouse adjoining the Parliament House. Still, even if they did know (whether statesmen or housewife) of the _Gunpowder_, it does not follow, either in fact or in logic, that they knew of the _Gunpowder Plot_. For they might reasonably enough conclude that the ammunition was to carry out “the practice for some stir” which Salisbury admits that he knew the recusants had in hand at that Parliament.——See “_Winwood’s Memorials_,” Ed. 1725, vol. ii., p. 72.——Moreover, for such a purpose, in the natural order of things, I take it, the powder would be brought in first, then the shot, muskets, armour, swords, daggers, pikes, crossbows, arrows, and other ordnance. (_The barrels, empty or nearly so, would be carried in first._) Sir Thomas Knevet, of Norfolk, was created Baron Knevett, of Escrick, near York, in 1607. He died without male issue. He went to the Parliament House on the night of November 4th, 1605, as a Justice of the Peace for Westminster.——See Nichols’ “_Progresses of James I._,” vol. i., p. 582.——Escrick is now the seat of the Lord Wenlock.] [Footnote 100:——“_Hatfield MS._,” 110, 30. Quoted in “the Rev. J. H. Pollen’s S.J., thoughtful and learned booklet, entitled “_Father Garnet and the Gunpowder Plot_” (Catholic Truth Society’s publication, London).] [Footnote 101:——See Jardine’s Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Feb., 1841, in “_Archæologia_,” vol. xxix., p. 100. This letter should be carefully read by every serious student of the Plot.] [Footnote 102:——Sir William Stanley, of Hooton (in that strip of Cheshire between the Mersey and the Dee), was not seen by Fawkes between Easter and the end of August, 1605, when Fawkes went over to Flanders for the last time in his career so adventurous and so pathetic. Sir William knew nothing of the Gunpowder Plot. It was said that he surrendered Deventer in pursuance of the counsel of Captain Roland Yorke, who to the Spaniards had himself surrendered Zutphen Sconce. These surrenders to the Spaniards on the part of two English gentlemen were strange pieces of business, and one would like the whole question to be thoroughly and severely searched into again. As to Roland Yorke, see Camden’s “_Queen Elizabeth_.”