In the same collection is a copy of some notes by Sir E. Coke (f. 185 b), in which the price of the powder discovered is put down as £200, _i.e._ some £2,000 of our money. [175] Gunpowder was measured by the _last_ = 2,400 lb. (Tomline's _Law Dictionary_.) In 1607 there were delivered out of the store 14 lasts and some cwts. In 1608 the amount in various strong places is entered as: "_Dover Castle_, 4 lasts; _Arcliffe Bullwark_, 1 last; _Walmer_, 1 last, 8 cwt.; _Deal Castle_, 1 last; _Sandown Castle_, 2 lasts, etc.; _Sandgate_, 1 last; _Camber_, 1 last." [176] The position and character of the "cellar" admit of no doubt, as appears from the testimony of Smith's _Antiquities of Westminster_, Brayley and Britton's _Ancient Palace of Westminster_, and Capon's notes on the same, _Vetusta Monumenta_, v. They are, however, inconsistent with some circumstances alleged by the government. Thus, Sir Everard Digby's complicity with "the worst part" of the treason, which on several occasions he denied, is held to be established by a confession of Faukes, which cannot now be found among the State Papers, but which is mentioned in Sir E. Coke's speech upon Digby's arraignment, and is printed in Barlow's _Gunpowder Treason_, p. 68. In Sir E. Coke's version it runs thus: "Fawkes, then present at the bar, had confessed, that some time before that session, the said Fawkes being with Digby at his house in the country, about which time there had fallen much wet, Digby taking Fawkes aside after supper, told him he was much afraid that the powder in the cellar was grown damp, and that some new must be provided, lest that should not take fire." Seeing, however, that the powder stood above ground, within a most substantial building, and could be reached by the rain only if this should first flood the Chamber of the Peers, it does not seem as if the idea of such a danger should have suggested itself. Another interesting point in connection with the "cellar" is that the House of Lords having subsequently been removed to the Court of Requests, and afterwards to the Painted Chamber, "Guy Faukes' Cellar" on each occasion accompanied the migration. From Leigh's _New Picture of London_ we find that in 1824-5, when the Court of Requests was in use, and the old cellar had completely disappeared, Guy's Cellar was still shown; while a plate given in Knight's _Old England_, and elsewhere, represents a vault under the Painted Chamber, not used as the House of Lords till after 1832. Such a cellar seems to have been considered a necessary appurtenance of the House. [177] Afterwards the Electress Palatine. [178] Gardiner, _Hist._ i. 245; Lingard, vii. 59; T. Winter, November 23rd, 1605. [179] Faukes, November 17th, 1605. [180] Harry Morgan, _Examination_ (R.O.), November 12th, 1605.