2» J S. IX. Mar. 10. "60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 10. 18G0. 



M». 219.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — The Gunpowder Plot Papers, 173 — Unappro- 

 priated Effigy in Tewkesbury Church, 175— Original Letter 

 from General Eliott, afterwards Lord HoatMeld, 176 — 

 English Etymologies, 177. 



Minor Notes: — Technical Memory applied to the Bible 



— Slander — Bishop Jeremy Taylor's Pulpit — A Roste 

 Yerne — Robinson Crusoe Abridged — First Hackney 

 Coaches, 177. 



QUERIES : — Mr. Bright and the British Lion— Dimidiated 

 Coronets — Cole Arms — The ft in Prescriptions — Heral- 

 dic— Flambnrd Brass at Harrow — Original Quartos of 

 Shakspeare — Heights of Mountains — Portrait of Calverly 



— Angels dancing on Needles — Morton Family — Thomas 

 Ady — Deacons' Orders and Clerical M.P.'s — Declension 

 of Nouns by Internal Inflexion — Hospitals for Lepers, 

 179. 



Qu tei es WIT H Axswees : — Cleaning Aquaria — Earl Nu- 

 gent's Lines — Bishop Latimer — Tintagel — "A wet 

 sheet," in: — " The Upper Ten Thousand," 181. 



REPLIES : — Colonel Frederick, 183 — A Question in Logic, 

 184 — Gloucester Custom, 185 — ^Fictitious Pedigrees: 

 Butts — Nichols' Leicestershire — "Don Quixote" in 

 Spanish — Soiled Books — Terminations in " -ness " — An- 

 derson Family — Decanatus Cliristianitatis — Refreshment 

 for Clergymen — Supervisor : Mistakes in reading Old 

 Documents — Pets de Religieuses — Crinoline : " Plon- 

 Plon " — Crispin Tucker — Adam de Cardonnell — Dutch- 

 born Citizens of London — Archiepiscopal Mitres and 

 Hats — " Keck-handed — Burial in a sitting Posture — 

 Songs and Poems — Gumption — Patroclus — Holding up 

 the Hand — Les My steres, &c. — Calcuith, &c. 175. 



Notes on Books. 



THE GUNPOWDER PLOT PAPERS. 



On the discovery of the plot, Thomas Percy, 

 who had hired the house adjoining the House of 

 Lords, was the only conspirator, with the excep- 

 tion of Fawkes, known or suspected by the go- 

 vernment. Fawkes had been arrested in the 

 cellar about midnight of the 4th of November, and 

 being but little known, was at first interrogated 

 very closely about himself and his companions. 

 He was not disinclined to be communicative about 

 himself, but he said nothing that could give the 

 slightest clue to the other conspirators. He gives 

 the following account of himself in his first ex- 

 amination : — 



" The Confession of John Johnson, Servaunt to Thomas 



Percy esq 1 ', one of his ma" pensioners taken this 



Tuesday the fifth of November 1G05, before the 



L. Cheif Justice of England and Sir Edward Coke 



knight, his Mats. Attorney generall. 



" Being demanded when he went beyond the seas; and 



if he did to what parte he went : Answereth that he 



went beyond the seas about Easter last, and toke shipping 



at Dover, but remembreth not in whose shippe he went, 



and from thence to Callice and from Callice he went to 



1 mers, and was in the Colledge there, and from thence 



did go to Brusela and staid there about three weeks, and 



from thence went to Spinolaea Camp in Flanders, and was 



there about three weeks, and reseyved no paic there, and 



in bil way went to Dowa to the Colledge there, and from 



thence returned to Brusells and remavned there about a 



month, and saw S r . \V m . Stanley, Hugh Owen, Greenway 

 and divers other Englishmen. And from thence he went 

 of Pilgrimage to the Lady of Montague in Brabant, where 

 he was twise on Pilgrimage, all alone." * 



The remaining part of this examination is pub- 

 lished by Mr. Jardino in his Trials, vol. ii. p. 156. 

 In the meantime Percy had escaped. He was 

 well known to ninny of the Council, and was a 

 relation of the Earl of Northumberland's. The 

 government therefore were exceedingly anxious 

 to have him discovered. A proclamation was 

 issued describing him. The State Paper Office 

 contains many letters written about this time to 

 Salisbury, suggesting the road he was likely to 

 have taken. Many persons who knew his habits 

 were examined ; and from the number of deposi- 

 tions still extant, some idea of the anxiety of the 

 government to apprehend him may be gathered. 

 The Archbishop of Canterbury sent the following 

 letter to the Secretary of State : — 



" My L. I am informed for a certayntie that M r . Tho. 

 Percy was melt this morning abowt eight of the clocke 

 ryding towards Croydon : by one Mathew the Hoast of 

 the George in Croydon : with whom ye said Pearecye 

 having good acquaintance demanded of the Hoast, what 

 newes? who ausweringe he had heard of none; no quoth 

 he : All London is up in Armes. He demanded the way 

 to Kingston ; why, said Hoast, you are three miles out 

 of your way thither. No matter q< h he the waters are 

 out in the nearer wave. This was told me within this 

 quarter of an hour, whereof I thought it meete to write y r 

 L. And so I comit v r L. unto the protection of Almighty 

 God. At Lambeth this 5 th of November, 1C05. 

 " Y r L. most assured, 

 " R. Cant." f 



(Richard Bancroft.) 



Sir "William Waad, the Keeper of the Tower, 

 was never weary of writing letters to Salisbury. 

 The first of these numerous epistles relates to 

 Percy : — 



" It muy please your good L. my Cousin Sir Edward 

 York being lately come out of the North and coming this 

 afternoon to me, upon speach of the happy discovery of 

 this most monstrous plot, he telleth me he met Thomas 

 Percy the party sought for, going down towards the North 

 disguised, whereupon I thought good to send my Cousin 

 Yorke to yr L. that he may relate somuch to y* h. L. 

 From the Towar in hasterthis 5 th November, 1605. 

 " At the Commandment of 

 ,; YV h. L. 



" W. G. Waad." J 



An express had been sent to "Ware by Salis- 

 bury enquiring if Percy had been through that 

 town on his way North. The following reply was 

 received from the postmaster : — 



" My most humble duties remembered, may it please y r 

 good Lordship to be advertized that I received your 

 Lordship's letter this day at almost xii in the day, and 

 whereas your Lordship wisheth to know whether one 

 M r . Thomas Percie came poste towards the north since 

 yesterday x o'clock, may it please your honourable Lord- 



* " Gunpowder-Plot Book," No. 6. 

 t '" Gunpowder Plot Book," No. 7. 

 + "Gunpowder- Plot Book," No. 14. 



