Once, indeed, Father Gerard proffers evidence which appears to bring the accusation which he has brought against Salisbury nearer home. He produces certain notes by an anonymous correspondent of Anthony Wood, preserved in Fulman's collection in the library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. "These remarkable notes, he tells us,[6] have been seen by Fulman, who inserted in the margin various questions and objections, to which the writer always supplied definite replies. In the following version this supplementary information is incorporated in the body of his statement, being distinguished by italics."[7] The paper is as follows:-- "I should be glad to understand what your friend driveth at about the Fifth of November. It was without all peradventure a State plot. I have collected many pregnant circumstances concerning it. "'Tis certain that the last Earl of Salisbury[8] confessed to William Lenthall it was his father's contrivance; which Lenthall soon after told one Mr. Webb (_John Webb, Esq._), a person of quality, and his kinsman, yet alive. "Sir Henry Wotton says, 'twas usual with Cecil to create plots that he might have the honour of the discovery, or to such effect. "The Lord Monteagle knew there was a letter to be sent to him before it came. (_Known by Edmund Church, Esq., his confidant._) "Sir Everard Digby's sons were both knighted soon after, and Sir Kenelm would often say it was a State design to disengage the king of his promise to the Pope and the King of Spain to indulge the Catholics if ever he came to be king here; and somewhat to his[9] purpose was found in the Lord Wimbledon's papers after his death. "Mr. Vowell, who was executed in the Rump time, did also affirm it so. "Catesby's man (_George Bartlet_) on his death-bed confessed his master went to Salisbury House several nights before the discovery, and was always brought privately in at a back door."