That Father Garnet believed Catesby to have deceived him and to have told untruths about him is evident from one of his letters written in orange juice in the Tower. He says[164] "Master Catesby did me much wrong, and hath confessed that he tould them that he said he asked me a question in Q. Eliz. time of the powder action, and that it was unlawfull. All which is most untrew. He did it to draw in others." Again he writes[165] "I doubt not Mr Catesby hath fained many such things for to induce others," Sir Everard Digby, of course, among the rest. [164] _Records, S. J._, Vol. iv., p. 108. [165] _History of the Gunpowder Plot_, Jardine, Appendix, p. 329. Some of the modern admirers of Father Garnet have maintained that the worse Catesby, the worse Garnet; the better Catesby, the better Garnet. Without suggesting the exact converse, I would venture to point out the danger to Garnet's memory in anything that might tend to show some sort of co-partnership in spirit and intention between himself and Catesby. All the facts lead me to a very different conclusion, and one which is much more to the interest of Garnet's memory, namely, that Catesby deceived him from first to last, and that he was, in fact, the innocent dupe of Catesby. To begin with, Catesby, when, during the first half year of James's reign, Garnet desired him not to join in "some stirring, seeing the King kept not his promise," deceived Garnet by assuring him "he would not."[166] He deceived him in 1604, when, on Garnet's urging him not to take up arms, etc., against the king,[167] "he promised to surcease." He deceived him when he put a case before him on the question of slaying "innocents together with nocents," as if it concerned his projected campaign in Flanders, when it really concerned the Gunpowder Plot. He deceived him at the[168] "house in Essex," when he "assured" him "that all his plans were unexceptionable." He deceived him when he[169] "promised" "to do nothing before the Pope was informed by" "messenger." He deceived him at White Webbs, when he told him that what he had in hand was quite "lawfull." He deceived him at Harrowden when he said that he was going to start for the war in the Low Countries as soon as he possibly could. [166] Examination, March 13. _Records, S. J._, Vol. III., p. 157. [167] _Ib._ [168] _Father Garnet and the Gunpowder Plot_, Pollen, p. 8. [169] _Ib._, p. 10.