[64] Gerard, p. 268.
[65] Stowe MSS., 168, fol. 223.
[66] Gerard, p. 170.
[67] Gerard, p. 169.
[68] S. P. Dom. xii. 24.
[69] Gerard, p. 175. Coke’s questions are in S. P. Dom. xvi. 38.
[70] The handwriting is quite different.
[71] This declaration, therefore, was not, as Mrs. Everett Green says, ‘made to Salisbury.’
[72] If anyone chooses to argue that this examination was drawn up regardless of its truth, and only signed by Fawkes after torture had made him incapable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, he may be answered that, in that case, those who prepared it would never have added to the allegation that some of the conspirators had received the Sacrament from Gerard the Jesuit to bind them to secrecy, the passage:—“But he saith that Gerard was not acquainted with their purpose.” This passage is marked for omission by Coke, and it assuredly would not have been found in the document unless it had really proceeded from Fawkes.
[73] About whom more hereafter.