[299] Sir E. D.’s Letters, paper 3.
[300] Exam. of Bates, 13 Jan. 1606; G. P. Book, Gardiner’s Hist. Eng., Declaration of Morgan, 10 Jan.; G. P. Book; Vol. i. p. 260.
[301] A very curious house, said to have been built by John Habington, cofferer to Queen Elizabeth. Nash’s Worcestershire, Vol. i. p. 585. This house has been pulled down, and a large modern mansion has been built in its place by the Allsopp family, the head of which, Lord Hindlip, takes his title from it.
[302] G. P. Book, Vol ii. n. 197. Exam. of Oldcorne, Mar. 6, 1605, [6].
[303] Nevertheless, Abington was condemned to death, because Father Garnet was found in his house, a few weeks later. He was eventually reprieved; but his lands and goods were forfeited. See Narrative of the G. P., Gerard, p. 268. He was “confined to Worcestershire on account of the Gunpowder Treason Plot,”and became “The first Collector of Antiquities for that County. Died Oct. 1647, aged 87.”Nash’s Worcestershire, Vol i. Illustrations to p. 588. His wife, sister to Lord Mounteagle, “is supposed to have wrote the letter which discovered the Gunpowder Treason Plot;”ib.
[304] Father Garnet was finally arrested at Hindlip, with several others. In their hiding-place their “maintenance had been by a quill or reed, through a whole in the chimney that backed another chimney into the gentlewoman’s chamber, and by that passage cawdles, broths, and warm drinks had been conveyed in unto them.”Ashmole MSS., Vol. 804, fol. 93, quoted by Nash, Vol. i. p. 586.
[305] Narrative of the G. P., Gerard, p. 268.
[306] Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, by Father John Morris, S. J., First Series, pp. 143-4.
[307] S. P. Dom. James I., Vol. lvii. n. 92.
[308] Records S. J., Series I., p. 173.