[289] Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, Gerard, p. 84.
[290] S. P. Gunpowder Plot Book, Part II. No. 121.
[291] The G. P., Jardine, p. 111.
[292] S. P. Gunpowder Plot Book, Part II. n. 121.
[293] “The mansion-house, which is moated round, but now in a very ruinous condition, having been much neglected ever since the gunpowder treason in 1606, in which plot the Winters were deeply concerned.” Nash’s Worcestershire, Vol. i. p. 592.
[294] “Like the gateway of the schools of Oxford, but of much more antient date.”Nash’s Worcestershire, Vol. i. p. 258.
[295] Possibly he may have remembered that a former owner of Grafton, Sir Humphrey Stafford, had been executed at Tyburn for treason, rather more than a century earlier.
[296] The greater part of Grafton was burned down about 1710. Nash, Vol. i. p. 158.
[297] Cal. Sta. Pa. Dom., 1603-10, p. 245.
[298] S. P. Gunpowder Plot Book, n. 43.