(2) Poulson says, in his account of the Wrights, of Plowland (or Plewland) Hall, in his “_History of Holderness_,” vol. ii., p. 57, that Christopher Wright “was the first who ascertained that the plot was discovered.” (3) Christopher Wright was possibly being harboured by Thomas Ward in or near Lord Mounteagle’s town-house in the Strand during a part of Monday night, the 4th of November, and during the early hours of Tuesday, the 5th. Or, if Christopher Wright were not being so harboured, then it is almost certain he must have been taking such brief repose as he did take at the inn known by the name of “the Mayden heade in St. Gyles.”[A] For there is evidence to prove that this conspirator’s horse was being stabled at that hostelry in the afternoon of Monday, the 4th of November. [Footnote A: The Strand is not far from the Church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. This well-known church has now two district churches, Christ Church, Endell Street, and Holy Trinity, Lincoln’s Inn Fields. (Communicated by Mr. J. A. Nicholson, Solicitor, York.) In 1891 the population of St. Giles’s Parish was 15,281.] This we know from the testimony of William Grantham, servant to Joseph Hewett, deposed to on the 5th of November, 1605,[B] taken before Sir John Popham, the Lord Chief Justice of England. [Footnote B: See Appendix.] Moreover, the Lord Chief Justice Popham[C] reported to Lord Salisbury on the 5th of November as follows: “Christopher Wright, as I thyncke, lay this last night in St. Gyles.”——“_Gunpowder Plot Book_,” Part I., No. 10. [Footnote C: Of the Leyborne-Pophams, of Littlecote, Co. Wilts.] (4) Again; from the following passage in “_Thomas Winter’s Confession_” it is evident that Christopher Wright, at a very early hour in the morning of Tuesday, November 5th, must have been _in very close proximity to Mounteagle’s residence_, in order to ascertain so accurately——either directly, through the evidence of his own senses, or indirectly, through the evidence of the senses of some other person (presumably of Thomas Ward)——what _there_ took place a few hours after Fawkes’s midnight apprehension by Sir Thomas Knevet. Thomas Winter says:—— “About five o’clock being Tuesday came the younger Wright to my chamber and told me that, a nobleman[A] called the Lord Mounteagle, saying, ‘Rise and come along to Essex House, for I am going to call up my Lord of Northumberland,’ saying withal ‘the matter is discovered.’ [Footnote A: It was Edward Somerset Earl of Worcester, Master of the Horse, I believe, an ancestor, lineal or collateral, of the Duke of Beaufort. Worcester was a Catholic.] “‘Go back, Mr. Wright,’ quoth I, ‘and learn what you can at Essex Gate.’ “Shortly he returned and said, ‘Surely all is lost,[123] for Leyton is got on horseback at Essex door, and as he parted, he asked if their Lordships would have any more with him, and being answered “No,” he rode as fast up Fleet Street as he can ride.’