[80] See Appendix C, The Question of Succession.
[81] Agriculture and Prices, v. 5.
[82] Jardine, Gunpowder Plot, p. 17.
[83] Gardiner, Hist. i. 84.
[84] Trial of Father Garnet (Cobbett's State Trials, ii. 243).
[85] Camden, the historian, to Sir R. Cotton, March 15th, 1596. (Birch, Original Letters, 2nd series, iii. p. 179.) Various writers erroneously suppose this transaction to have occurred in March, 1603, on occasion of Elizabeth's last illness. The correct date, 1596, given by Sir Henry Ellis, is supplied by a statement contained in the letter, that this was her Majesty's "climacterick year," that is, her sixty-third, this number, as the multiple of the potent factors seven and nine, being held of prime importance in human life. Elizabeth was born in 1533.
From Garnet's examination of March 14th, 1605-6 (Dom. James I. xix. 44), we learn that Catesby was at large at the time of the queen's demise.
For Cecil's description of the men, see Winwood's Memorials, ii. 172.
[86] Catesby purchased his life for a fine of 4,000 marks, and Tresham of 3,000. Mr. Jessopp says that the former sum is equivalent at least to £30,000 at the present day. (Dict. Nat. Biog., Catesby.)
[87] But see Appendix D, The Spanish Treason.