[387] P. 141.

[388] See Ency. Brit., Eighth Ed., Vol. vii. p. 95.

[389] Criminal Trials, Jardine, p. 127 seq.

[390] So it is commonly said; but Mr Tomlinson, in his article on Gunpowder in the Ency. Brit., Vol. xi. p. 150, ed. 1856, says that it was known, in some form at least, in the year 355 B.C.

[391] Gunpowder Treason, by Thomas, Bp. of Lincoln, pp. (48)-(50).

[392] Gardiner’s Hist. of Eng., Vol. i. p. 286; and see 3 Jac. I. cap. 1.

[393] S. P. Dom. James I., G. P. Book, Part II. n. 114.

[394] Criminal Trials, Jardine, Vol. ii. pp. 138 and 169.

[395] Gunpowder Treason, by Thomas, Bp. of Lincoln, p. (55) seq.

[396] Gunpowder Treason, by Thomas, Bp. of Lincoln, p. (56).