An attempt was made, later, to represent the name of Vaux to be the same as that of Fawkes:--[120] "Mrs Anne Vaux, or Fawkes, probably a relative of the conspirator;" for which there seems to be no foundation, and certainly there is none for the base imputation, in the same paragraph, of immorality between Anne Vaux and Father Garnet. Even the Protestant historian, Jardine, repudiates this calumny at considerable length.[121] [120] _Somers Tracts_, Vol. ii. p. 108, footnote. [121] _Gunpowder Plot_, pp. 176-8. CHAPTER VI. In the summer of the year 1605, Sir Everard Digby spent a week in London, and stayed at the lodgings in the Savoy of his friend Roger Manners,[122] the eldest brother of Sir Oliver Manners, whose conversion to the Catholic faith has been already noticed. This Roger Manners married the daughter and heir of the famous Sir Philip Sydney, and eventually succeeded his father, as fifth Earl of Rutland. Although Sir Everard stayed with Roger Manners, he "commonlie dieted at the Mearmaid in Bred Streete."[123] He spent much of his time with the excellent Sir Oliver Manners, which was all very well; but, unfortunately, Robert Catesby also "kept him companie" a great deal; without, however, letting him know what was chiefly occupying him in London just at that time. Thomas Winter also came to see Sir Everard whilst he was in London, and his friendship with men who were conspiring to an evil end was endangering Digby without his knowing it. At that time he had no idea that any plot was in existence, although he was doubtless aware that many Catholics were considering what steps could be taken to relieve their condition; and the fact of his staying with Roger Manners proves that he had not come to London with any design of conferring with restless Catholics in a secret or underhand fashion. [122] S. P. Gunpowder Plot Book, Part I, No. 108. [123] _Ib._ After his visit to London, Sir Everard seems to have returned to Gothurst and to have continued his usual innocent country life, with its duties and pleasures. A letter among the Hatfield MS., written to him on the eleventh of June--his eldest boy's birthday by the way[124]--treats of otter-hunting, and it is likely enough that Sir Everard practised this sport in the Ouse as well as in the other rivers and brooks of Buckinghamshire. [124] So it is usually believed, and so wrote Ben Jonson--"Upon his birthday, the eleventh of June";--so, too, Richard Farrar--"Born on the day he died, the eleventh of June." But some authorities give a different date, and the question has been fiercely disputed.