[311] MS., f. 70, b.
[312] Cecil writing to the ambassadors, November 9th, mentions in a postscript the fate of the rebels.
[313] They were slain by two balls from the same musket.
[314] Warrant, P.R.O.
[315] Father Gerard mentions this circumstance (Narrative, p. 110).
[316] This point is well developed in the recent Life of a Conspirator, pp. 120-126.
[317] Dom. James I. xvi. 97.
[318] Dom. James I., March 4th, 1605-6.
[319] Gunpowder Plot Book, 242.
[320] The strange story of a powder-plot under Elizabeth is variously told. According to one of the mysterious confessions attributed to Faukes, which have disappeared from the State Papers, Owen told him in Flanders that one Thomas Morgan had proposed to blow up her majesty (Abbot, Antilogia, 137). The Memorial to Protestants by Bishop Kennet (1713) says that the man's name was Moody, who wanted the French ambassador to subsidise him. The idea was to place a 20 lb. bag of powder under the queen's bed, and explode it in the middle of the night, but how this was to be managed is not explained.