Nottingham, Earl of, Lord Admiral (Charles Howard), 170 _note_, 265. Oates, Titus, 46, 138. Oath taken by the conspirators, 9. Oldcorne, _alias_ Hall, Father Edward, S.J., captured along with Garnet, 7; never accused of complicity _ib._; Catholic demonstration at his execution, 28 _note_; tortured, 173. Oldmixon (_Royal House of Stuart_), 25 _note_, 46. Osborne, Francis, on Cecil's unpopularity, 25; on the "discovery," 44; on the 5th of August celebration, 232 _note_; on Northumberland and Cecil, 218; his qualifications as an historian, 44. Owen, Captain Hugh, falsely described as a Jesuit, 173 _note_, 185 _note_; particularly obnoxious to the government, 173, 185; evidence fabricated against him, 174; Cecil's instruction respecting him, 116 _note_; efforts made to secure him, 185 _seq._; his intercourse with Phelippes, 112, 185 _note_. Owen, Lewis, 263. Paris, Henry, 162. Parliament, its successive adjournments, 67, 70 _note_, 91, 114, 230; meets on the day of the "discovery," 136; activity against Catholics, 5, 212 _seq._ Parry, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Paris, instructions given to, 28 _note_; intelligence supplied by, 98, 101, 102; account of the discovery furnished to, 126 _seq._ Parry, Dr. William, his Plot, 14, 153. Parsons, Father Robert, S.J., letters to, 29 _note_, 77, 223; his views as to the succession, 249; on Walsingham's "spyery," 77. Percy, Sir Charles, 192 _note_. Percy, Thomas, one of the first and principal conspirators, 9, 64; his antecedents, 36, 37, 148; house hired by him, 60; and "cellar," 75; strange conduct in both transactions, 88; conduct afterwards, 88, 91; undertakes to seize Duke Charles or Princess Elizabeth, 82; his death, 4, 152 _seq_; profession of religious zeal, 148; bigamy, _ibid_; Catholics suspicious of him, 150; alleged secret dealings with Cecil, 151; the case against him, 148-156. _See also_ Conspirators. Phelippes, Thomas, the "decipherer," employed by the government, 111; their devices against him, 112; correspondence with Hugh Owen, 185 _note_. Pickering, Mr., and his horse, 261. _Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith_, 49. Plots under Elizabeth and James I., 14, 15, 153, 157 _note_, 193 _note_; their common feature, 13. _Polititian's Catechism_, 51 _note_, 106, 137 _note_. Pope Clement VIII., interchanges communications with James I., 104. Pope Paul V., represented as an accomplice in the Plot, 5, 239. Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 170 _note_, 197, 266. Raleigh, Sir Walter, Cecil's enmity towards him, 26 _note_, 48 _note_, 198; his ruin, 26, 216; attempt to implicate him in the Powder Plot, 197, 198. Ratcliffe, Ralph, a government spy, 95, 96, 191. Rich, Sir Edwin, 264. Richardot, President, 189.