"And, as they were working, they heard a rushing in the cellar, which grew by one[52] Bright's selling of his coals,[53] whereupon this examinant, fearing they had been discovered, went into the cellar, and viewed the cellar[54] and perceiving the commodity thereof for their purpose, and understanding how it would be letten,[55] his master, Mr. Percy, hired the cellar for a year for 4_l._ rent; and confesseth that after Christmas twenty barrels of powder were brought by themselves to a house, which they had on the Bankside in hampers, and from that house removed[56] the powder to the said house near the Upper House of Parliament; and presently, upon hiring the cellar they themselves removed the powder into the cellar, and covered the same with fagots which they had before laid into the cellar. "After, about Easter, he went into the Low Countries (as he before hath declared in his former examination) and that the true purpose of his going over was, lest, being a dangerous man, he should be known and suspected, and in the mean time he left the key of the cellar with Mr. Percy, who, in his absence caused more billets to be laid into the cellar, as in his former examination he confessed, and returned about the end of August, or the beginning of September, and went again to the said house, near to the said cellar, and received the key of the cellar again of one of the five,[57] and then they brought in five or six barrels of powder more into the cellar, which also they covered with billets, saving four little barrels covered with fagots, and then this examinant went into the country about the end of September. "It appeareth the powder was in the cellar placed as it was found the 5 of November, when the Lords came to prorogue the Parliament, and sayeth that he returned again to the said house near the cellar on Wednesday the 30 of October. "_He confesseth he was at the Earl of Montgomery's marriage, but, as he sayeth, with no intention of evil having a sword about him, and was very near to his Majesty and the Lords there present._[58]