[11] Tresham had died in the Tower, December 22nd. Although he had not been tried, his remains were treated as those of a traitor, his head being cut off and fixed above the gates of Northampton (_Dom. James I._ xvii. 62.) [12] "That which remaineth is but this, to assure you that ere many daies you shall hear that Father Garnet ... is layd open for a principall conspirator even in the particular Treason of the Powder."--_To Sir Henry Bruncard, P.R.O. Ireland_, vol. 218, March 3rd, 1605-6. Also (Calendar) _Dom. James I._ xix. 10. [13] In Lent, 1603-4. Easter fell that year on April 8th. [14] "About the middle of Easter Term."--_Thomas Winter's declaration_, of November 23rd, 1605. [15] "Keyes, about a month before Michaelmas."--_Ibid._ About Christopher Wright there is much confusion, Faukes (November 17th, 1605) implying that he was introduced before Christmas, and Thomas Winter (November 23rd, 1605) that it was about a fortnight after the following Candlemas, _i.e._, about the middle of February. [16] The form of this oath is thus given in the official account: "You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the Sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave." It is a singular circumstance that the form of this oath, which was repeated in official publications, with an emphasis itself inexplicable, occurs in only one of the conspirators' confessions, viz., the oft-quoted declaration of T. Winter, November 23rd, 1605. This--as we shall see, a most suspicious document--was one of the two selected for publication, on which the traditional history of the plot depends. Curiously enough, however, the oath, with sundry other matters, was omitted from the published version of the confession. [Published in the "King's Book:" copy, or draft, for publication, in the Record Office: original at Hatfield. Copy of original Brit. Mus. Add. MSS., 6178, 75.] [17] T. Winter says: "Having upon a primer given each other the oath of secrecy, in a chamber where no other body was, we went after into the next room and heard mass, and received the blessed Sacrament upon the same."--_Declaration_, November 23rd, 1605. [18] Digby was enlisted "about Michaelmas, 1605;" Rokewood about a month before the 5th of November. Tresham gives October 14th as the date of his own initiation. _Examination_, November 13th, 1605. [19] This is clear from a comparison of Cecil's private letter to Cornwallis and others (Winwood, _Memorials_, ii. 170), with the official account published in the _Discourse of the manner of the Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot_. [20] _Criminal Trials_, ii. 3. [21] _History of England_, i. 269 (1883).