What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence

by John Gerard

^[243] £500 as an annuity for life, and £200 per annum to him and his heirs for ever in fee farm rents.

^[244] See Thorold Rogers, Agriculture and Prices, v. 631, and Jessopp, One Generation of a Norfolk House, p. 285.

^[245] R.O. Dom. James I. xx. 56.

^[246] Criminal Trials, ii. 65.

^[247] Ibid. 68.

^[248] Note on Fuller's Church History, x. § 39, and on The Student's Hume.

^[249] History, i. 251.

^[250] Criminal Trials, ii. 69.

^[251] On March 13th, 1600-1, Monteagle wrote to Cecil from the Tower, "My conscience tells me that I am no way gilty of these Imputations, and that mearely the blindness of Ignorance lead me into these infamous errors." (Brit. Mus. MSS. Add. 6177).

^[252] The letter is printed in Archæologia, xxviii. 422, by Mr. Bruce, who argues from it Monteagle's complicity with the Plot. Mr. Jardine's reply is found ibid. xxix. 80.