Then follow twenty-nine names, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lords Ellesmere (_Chancellor_), Dorset (_Treasurer_), Nottingham (_Admiral_), Suffolk (_Chamberlain_), Northumberland, Cranborne (Cecil), Northampton, etc. It is noted "Lords Montagu, Petre, and Gerard [all three Catholics] were present, though they were none of the Commissioners." [156] _Narrative_ (Stonyhurst MSS.), fol. 44 b. [157] This absurd supposition is obviously implied by Faukes (November 17th, 1605), and T. Winter (November 23rd), in the only two accounts furnished by any of the conspirators wherein the episode of the mine is mentioned. In Barlow's _Gunpowder Treason_ (_Harleian Miscellany_, iii. 123) it is expressly stated that the confederates "came to the knowledge of the vault" only on the occasion now detailed. Tierney says (Dodd's _Church History_, iv. 45, note): "At this moment an accidental noise ... first acquainted them with the existence of the cellar." [158] On the 3rd of October following, Thomas Winter was sent to be present at the ceremony of prorogation, and to watch the demeanour of the assembled peers. [159] _Gunpowder Plot_, p. 55. This account is based almost entirely on that of Faukes, November 17th, 1605. [160] In his Italian version of Father Gerard's history, Father Greenway interpolates the following note: "Questi non erano carboni di legno, ma una sorte di pietra negra, la quale come carbone abrugia et fa un fuogo bellissimo et ottimo" (fol. 44 b). [161] "These Pioneers through Piercies chamber brought Th' exhausted earth, great baskets full of clay; Thereby t' have made a mighty concave vau't, And of the house the ground worke tooke away: But then at last an obstacle they finde, Which to remove proud Piercy casts in 's mind. A thick stone wall their passage then did let; Whereby they cou'd not finish their intent. Then forthwith Piercy did a sellar get, Under that sacred house for yearly rent: Feigning to fill 't with Char coal, Wood, & Beere, From all suspect themselves to cloake & cleere." JOHN VICARS, _Mischeefes Mysterie_. This remarkable poem, published 1617, is a much expanded translation of _Pietas Pontificia_ (in Latin hexameter verse) by Francis Herring, which appeared in 1606.