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[330] Letter to the King. Works viii, 647; cf. i. 671.
[331] Discursus status religionis, 1605: 'Ipsi magnates non verentur se profiteri catholicos et plerique alii ex nobilitate, praecipue in principatu Walliae et in provinciis septentrionalibus,—ubi numerus eorum non ita pridem crevit in immensum.
[332] 'S. Sta vole e comanda, che li Catolici siano obedienti al re d'Inghilterra, come a loro signore e re naturale. Vra Sria attenda con ogni diligenza e vigilanza a questi negotii d'Inghilterra procurando che conforme alla volonta di N. Sra obedischino al suo re e non s'intrighino in congiure tumulti ed altre cose, per le quali possino dispiacere a quella Ma.'
[333] The Venetian Ambassador in his reports mentions 'doglienze e querelle accompagnate di lacrime di sangue.' The Roman reports are to the same effect. De vero Statu Angliae. La vera relatione dello stato. Agosto 1605. The persecution of the Catholics had begun on July 26.
[334] Camden in writing to Cotton names Bainham, Catesby, Tresham, and the two Wrights. He calls them 'gentlemen hunger-starved for innovation.' Camdeni Epistolae 347.
[335] Garnet says, in his conference with Hall, which was overheard, that he was accused of giving 'some advice in Queen Elizabeth's time of the blowing up of the parliament house with gunpowder; I told them it was lawful' Jardine, Gunpowder Plot 202.
[336] From his examination: Jardine 206.
[337] Lingard ix. 52. From Greenway's memoranda.
[338] From a letter of Parry to Sir T. Edmondes, Paris, October 10, 1605; in Birch's Negotiations 234.