[114] Gardiner. _History of England_, Vol. x. p. 364. [115] Gardiner's _History of England_, Vol. i. p. 249. Sir Everard visited a good deal at the house of Lord Vaux's mother, Mrs Elizabeth Vaux. This was a house in Buckinghamshire at Stoke Poges, that had been built by Sir Christopher Hatton,[116] the Lord Chancellor, who had died childless. It was let for a term of years to Mrs Vaux, and she not only established Father Gerard in it as her chaplain, but had hiding-places and other arrangements made, so that he could receive priests and Catholic laymen, as he might think well, for the good of the cause of religion. Here Sir Everard was probably thrown a good deal with Catesby and Tresham, as they were both related to his young host. Lord Vaux's two aunts, Miss Anne Vaux and Eleanor, the wife of Edward Brooksby, lived with him and his mother, and Miss Anne was one of those who had serious misgivings as to the mysterious conduct of her cousin, Robert Catesby.[117] "Seeing at Winter's and Grant's"--Grant was a popular Warwickshire squire, a Catholic, and celebrated for his undaunted courage--"their fine horses in the stable, she told Mr Garnet that she feared these wild heads had something in hand, and prayed him to talk to Mr Catesby and to hinder anything that possibly he might, for if they should attempt any foolish thing, it would redound to his discredit. Whereupon he said he would talk to Mr Catesby." [116] It was to this Sir Christopher Hatton, that Sir Everard's father had dedicated his book _A Dissuasive from taking away the Livings of the Church_. [117] _Father H. Garnet and the Gunpowder Plot_, Pollen, p. 20. P.R.O., March 11. Another account of what was probably the same interview was given by Father Garnet himself, in his examination of March 12th, 1605. [118] "He sayth that Mrs Vaux came to him, eyther to Harrowden or to Sir Everard Digby's at Gothurst, and tould this exam{t}. that she feared that some trouble or disorder was towards [them], that some of the gentlewomen had demanded of her where they should bestow themselves until the burst[119] was past in the beginning of the Parliament. And this exam{t}. asking her who tould her so, she said that she durst not tell who tould her so: she was [choked] with sorrow." [118] S. P. Dom. James I., Vol. xix. n 40. See _Records S.J._, Vol. iv. p. 157. [119] This could not mean the projected "burst" of gunpowder, of which she could have known nothing, but an attempt of some sort, about that time, to obtain relief for the Catholics by force of arms, which she appears to have expected, or rather, to have feared.