[181] T. Winter, November 23rd and 25th, 1605. As the information about Prince Henry was alleged to have been communicated by Lord Monteagle, the passage has been mutilated in the published version to conceal this circumstance. [182] Faukes, November 5th, 1605. [183] Sir E. Digby, Barlow's _Gunpowder Treason_, App. 249. [184] Faukes, November 17th, 1605. [185] Digby, _ut sup._ [186] _History_, i. 239. [187] There is also an allusion to the same in the confession of Keyes, November 30th, 1605; but this document also is of a highly suspicious character. Of the seven miners, none but these three were taken alive; Catesby, Percy, and the two Wrights being killed in the field. Strangely enough, though Keyes may be cited as a witness on this subject, on which his evidence is of such singular importance, the government, for some purpose of its own, tampered with the confession of Faukes wherein he is mentioned as one of the excavators, substituting Robert Winter's name for his, and placing Keyes amongst those "that wrought not in the myne." See Jardine's remarks on this point, _Criminal Trials_, ii. 6. [188] His detailed notes and plans are given in _Vetusta Monumenta_, vol. v. [189] Page 4. [190] See Appendix E, _Site of Percy's house_. [191] Tanner MSS. lxxv. § 185, b. [192] Faukes, November 6th, uses the same expression, "a low room new builded," which seems to imply that this receptacle had been constructed since Percy came into possession of the house. [193] November 6th, 1605. More will be seen of the important document containing this information. [194] According to Smith's plan (_sup._ p. 59) there were four entrances to the cellar, none of which can have been Percy's "new dore." [195] We are told that Faukes was selected to take charge of the house, and perform other duties which would bring him into notice, because being unknown in London he was not likely to excite remark. In his declaration, November 8th, however, he gives as his reason for going abroad, "lest, being a dangerous man, he should be known and suspected." It is obvious that in the meantime the cellar must either have been left in charge of others better known, and therefore more likely to excite suspicion, or have been left unprotected. [196] November 17th, 1605. [197] Thomas Winter, November 23rd, 1605. [198] F. 66. [199] This, as we have heard, was Mr. Whynniard, who unfortunately died very suddenly on the morning of November 5th, on hearing of the "discovery," evidence of great importance as to the hiring of the house and "cellar" being thus lost. "As for the keeper of the parliament house," says Goodman, "who let out the lodgings to Percy, it is said that as soon as ever he heard of the news what Percy intended, he instantly fell into a fright and died; so that it could not be certainly known who procured him the house, or by whose means."--_Court of King James_, i. 107. CHAPTER V. THE GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT.