[63] _G. P. B._, No. 49. In the Stowe copy the names of the Commissioners are omitted, and a list of fifteen plotters added. As the paper was inclosed in a letter to Edmondes of the 14th, these might easily be added at any date preceding that. [64] _Gerard_, p. 268. [65] _Stowe MSS._, 168, fol. 223. [66] _Gerard_, p. 170. [67] _Gerard_, p. 169. [68] _S. P. Dom._ xii. 24. [69] _Gerard_, p. 175. Coke's questions are in _S. P. Dom._ xvi. 38. [70] The handwriting is quite different. [71] This declaration, therefore, was not, as Mrs. Everett Green says, 'made to Salisbury.' [72] If anyone chooses to argue that this examination was drawn up regardless of its truth, and only signed by Fawkes after torture had made him incapable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, he may be answered that, in that case, those who prepared it would never have added to the allegation that some of the conspirators had received the Sacrament from Gerard the Jesuit to bind them to secrecy, the passage:--"But he saith that Gerard was not acquainted with their purpose." This passage is marked for omission by Coke, and it assuredly would not have been found in the document unless it had really proceeded from Fawkes. [73] About whom more hereafter. [74] Gerard afterwards denied that this was true, and the late Father Morris (_Life of Gerard_, p. 437) argues, with a good deal of probability, that Fawkes mistook another priest for Gerard. For my purpose it is not a matter of any importance. [75] This should be John. [76] Probably, as Father Gerard suggests, what would now be known as a coursing match. [77] _Proclamation Book, R.O._ p. 117. [78] A late postscript added to the letter to the Ambassadors sent off on the 9th (_Winwood_, ii. 173) shows that before the end of the day Salisbury had learnt even more of the details than were comprised in the Sheriff's letter. [79] Nov. 5. [80] Nov. 6. [81] Nov. 7. [82] Nov. 8. [83] The question whether Winter or Keyes was one of two workers will be subsequently discussed. [84] Mrs. Everett Green suggests Nov. 8 (_G. P. B._ No. 133), but this is merely a deduction from her mistaken date of the examination of the 17th (see p. 17, note 1). In Fawkes's confession of the 9th Keyes's Christian name appears to have been subsequently added. [85] Extracts from the Council Registers, _Add. MSS._ 11,402, fol. 108. The volume of the Council Book itself which recorded the transactions of these years has been lost. [86] _G. P. B._ No. 101. There is a facsimile in _National MSS._ Part iv. No. 8. [87] See pp. 18, 20. [88] _Gerard_, p. 174. [89] _Gerard_, p. 268. [90] The erasure of Winter's name, and the substitution of that of Keyes, will be dealt with later. [91] _Gerard_, p. 168. [92] Father Gerard appears to show his dislike of Salisbury by denying him his title. [93] All Saints Day.