[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).
[22] "We had all been blowne up at a clapp, if God out of His Mercie and just Reuenge against so great an Abomination, had not destined it to be discovered, though very miraculously, even some twelve Houres before the matter should have been put in execution."—Cecil to Cornwallis, November 9th, 1605. Winwood, Memorials, ii. 170.
[23] M. l'Abbé Destombes, La persécution en Angleterre sous le règne d'Elizabeth, p. 176.
[24] Catholique Apology, third edition, p. 403.
[25] Goodman's Court of King James, i. 121.
[26] Mr. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography, sub nom.
[27] Goodman's Court of King James, i. 121. Ed. J.S. Brewer.
[28] Court of King James, p. 64.