On the following day, however, "he beinge shewed by the L{s} his follye and faulte in denyinge that w{ch} was so manyfest and beinge toulde that both Tho. Wynter had speach w{h} him of the pticulars, concerninge the plot of the powder to blow upp the K. in the Parliament house, and being confronted w{th} Mr Faucks who charged him to have discoursed w{th} him thereof abowte a weeke before the 5th of November at his house in Buck.shyer," he confessed more freely. Fawkes had been tortured,[346] and most likely, when he charged Sir Everard in this way, he did it in order to escape being tortured again. So many of the conspirators were now known by the others to be in the Tower, and each was so much afraid of what the others might have confessed, that they became terrified and confessed freely when examined. Neither of them knew which of his companions had been tortured in order to induce him to incriminate his friends; and each feared that he might, at any moment, be himself laid upon the rack. [346] The King wrote:--"The gentler tortours are to be first usid unto him, _et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur_, and so God speede youre goode worke." S. P., James I., Dom., Vol. xvi. n. 17, Nov. 6. CHAPTER XIII. Sir Everard says, in a letter from the Tower,[347] that, at one of his examinations, "they did in a Fashion offer me the torture, which I wil rather indure then hurt any body"; but it was only a threat; for, although torture was used to priests and Jesuits in connection with the Gunpowder Plot, it does not[348] appear to have been brought to bear upon any of the actual conspirators except Guy Fawkes. Lord Dunfermline, however, strongly urged Salisbury to expose them to it.[349] "Recommends that the prisoners be confined apart, in darkness, and examined by torch-light, and that the tortures be slow and at intervals, as being the most effectual." On the other hand, a tract, printed in 1606,[350] says of the conspirators, that "in the time of their imprisonment, they rather feasted with their sins, than fasted with sorrow for them; were richly apparelled, fared deliciously, and took tobacco out of measure, with a seeming carelessness of their crime." [347] _Letters of Sir E. D._, Paper 7. [348] A modern Jesuit thinks otherwise (see _The Month_, No. 367, p. 8), quoting Cecil's letter to Favat (Brit. Museum MSS. Add. 6178. fol. 625). "Most of the prisoners have wilfully forsworn that the priests knew anything in particular, and obstinately refuse to be accusers of them, _yea, what torture soever they be put to_." Cecil may have referred to Fawkes only when he mentioned torture; but the Jesuit Father may be right, and he gives other evidence in support of his theory. [349] Cal. Sta. Pa. Dom., 1603-10, p. 258. [350] _Somer's Tracts_, Vol. ii. p. 113.