Besides the above there is a prolix description of the Plot, devised against the best of sovereigns, "a Jesuitis Romanensibus, perfidiæ Catholicæ et impietatis viperinæ autoribus et assertoribus, aliisq. ejusdem amentiæ scelerisq. patratoribus et sociis susceptæ, et in ipso pestis derepente inferendæ articulo (salutis anno 1605, mensis Novembris die quinto), tam præter spem quam supra fidem mirifice et divinitus detectæ." There is, moreover, a sentence in Hebrew, with Waad's cipher beneath, and a number of what seem to be meant for verses. The following lines are evidently the Lieutenant's description of his own office: "Custodis Custos sum, Carcer Carceris, arcis Arx, atque Argu' Argus; sum speculæ specula; Sum vinclum in vinclis; compes cum compede, clav[=u] Firmo hærens, teneo tentus, habens habeor. Dum regi regnoq. salus stet firma quieta, Splendida sim Compes Compedis usque licet." This is considerably more metrical and intelligible than some of the rest. In 1613 Waad was dismissed from his post, one of the charges against him being that he had embezzled the jewels of Arabella Stuart.[467] In Theobald's _Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh_ (p. 16), Waad is described as "the Lieutenant of the Tower, and Cecil's great Creature." FOOTNOTES: [464] _Dom. James I._ lvii. 92-93, October 5th. [465] At the time of the Plot Charles was not quite five years old. [466] Erskine. [467] _Dom. James I._ lxxii. 129. APPENDIX N. THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. A. _The draft, November 8th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 49). *** Passages between square brackets have been cancelled. Those marked * have been ticked off for omission. _The Confession of Guy Fawkes, taken the 8 of November, 1605._ HE confesseth that a Practise in generall was first broken unto him, agaynst his Majesty, for the Catholique cause, and not invented or propounded by himself, and this was first propounded unto him about Easter last was twelvemonth, beyond the seas in the Low countreyes, by an English Lay-man, and that English man came over with him in his company into England, and they tow and three more weare the first five mencioned in the former examination. And they five resolving to do some thinge for the Catholick cause,--a vowe being first taken by all of them for secrecye,--one of the other three propounded to perform it with Powder, and resolved that the place should be,--where this action should be performed and justice done,--in or neere the place of the sitting of the Parliament, wherein Religion had been uniustly suppressed. This beeinge resolved the manner [of it] was as followeth. THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. B. _As signed by Faukes, November 17th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 101). *** Square brackets indicate an erasure. Italics an addition or substitution. The [deposition] _declaration_ of Guy Fawkes prisonner in the Tower of London _taken the 17 of Nov. 1605, acknowledged before the Lords Commissioners._[468]