[391] The powder design of Morgan is an instance in point. The Thomas Morgan in question was doubtless the same as the partisan of Mary Queen of Scots.
[392] E.g.: "Winter came over to Owen, by him and the Fathers to be informed of a fit and resolute man for the execution of the enterprise. This examinate (being by the Fathers and Owen recommended to be used and trusted in any action for the Catholicks) came into England with Winter."—Faukes, November 19th, 1605 (Tanner MSS.).
Abbot, whose whole object is to incriminate the Jesuits, does not mention this remarkable statement.
Again we read, November 30th (ibid.): "Father Baldwin told this examinate that about 2,000 horses would be provided by the Catholicks of England to join with the Spanish forces ... and willed this examinate to intimate so much to Father Creswell, which this examinate did."
[393] Oliver, Collectanea, sub nom.; Foley, Records, iv. 120, note.
[394] Foley, Records, iii. 509; English Protestants' Plea, p. 59.
[395] Dom. James I. xvi. 115.
[396] England's Warning Peece, by T. S. [Thomas Spencer], P.73.
[397] Cotton MSS. Vespasian C., ix. f. 259.
[398] Winwood, Memorials, ii. 178.