[225] Father Gerard’s letter to the Bishop of Chalcedon. See Life of Father Gerard, p. ccxxxviii.

[226] Jardine’s G. P., p. 36.

[227] Beeton’s Encyclopædia, Vol. i.

[228] Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, by J. Gerard, pp. 59, 60.

[229] Jardine, p. 38.

[230] Gunpowder Treason, Barlow, p. 68.


CHAPTER X.

Both Catesby and Fawkes left Gothurst as October wore on; so also did any other conspirators who may have visited it. Most of them betook themselves to White Webbs, a desolate, half-timbered house, with “many trap-doors and passages,”[231] on Enfield Chase, to the north of London, about ten miles from the cellar where their gunpowder lay.