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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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LOXDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 14. 1SC0. 



N». 224. — CONTENTS. 



> T OTES: — The Gunpowder-plot Papers, 277 — Mottoes on 

 Sun-dials, 273. 



Minor Notes: —Curious Discovery — Biographical Notes 

 from Dueard's Register of Merchant Taylors' School — 

 Napoleon" I. : his Testimony to the Divinity of Christ — 

 Apollo Belvedere Statuette — Breakneck Steps, 279. 



QUERIES: — Dibdin's Songs, 230 — Raper — R. Willis- 

 Heraldic — The Tragic Poet — Rev. George Watson — 

 "Jack" — Joseph Clarke — Cornwal Family— Cattle Toll 

 at Chetwode— Berthold's Political Handkerchief— "His 

 people's good," &c— Portrait of Sir Henry Morgan, the 

 Buccaneer — "The Siege of Malta" — Milton's Autograph 



— "II SfortunatoPortunato" — Tart Hall, &c — Admiral 

 John Fish, 281. 



Qfteifs with Axswees:— The Republic of Babine — The 

 Translators' Address in the Bible— Editions of the Prayer 

 Book prior to 1662, 282. 



REPLIES: — Drummond of Colquhalzie, 283 — Shakspeare 

 Music, lb. — English Etymologies, 284 — Henry Smith, 

 285 — Flambard Brass at Harrow, 286 — Samuel Daniel — 

 The Crossing Sweeper— Legend of Jersey: the Seigneur 

 de* Hambie — Ronalds' "Electrical Telegraph " — " Quar- 

 ter " — Col. Hacker — Refreshment for Clergymen — Sea 

 Breaches — " Cock an Eye " — King Bladud and his Pigs 



— " Walk your Chalks " — True Blue — Blue Blood — Tay- 

 lor Club — Political Pseudonymes — Rev. Edward Wm. 

 Barnard — Chevalier Gallini— The Rev. Christopher Love 



— Order of Prayer in French — Mawhood Family — Inn 

 Signs painted by Eminent Artists — London Riots in 1780 



— Peers serving as Mayors — " Dickey " for " Donkey " — 

 The De Hungerford Inscription — Epigram on Homer — 

 Early Communion — Frances Lady Atkyns, &c, 286. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



THE GUNPOWDER-PLOT PAPERS.* 



Amongst the numerous papers relating to the 

 Gunpowder Plot preserved in the State Paper 

 Office, is a curious document, undated and with- 

 out signature, endorsed by Salisbury " Touching 

 Faux* 



It is no doubt one of many other similar letters 

 sent to the Secretary of State after Fawkes' ar- 

 rest, and probably has escaped destruction by ac- 

 cident. The following is a copy of it : — 



" Some two months since or there abouts one who 

 named himself Faulkes came and took a lodging at one 

 M™. Herbert's House a widowcs that dwells on the Back- 

 side of St. Clement's church near the arch near the well 

 called St. Clement's Well. She was then a widow but 

 since she is marryed to one M r . Woodhouse ; to whom 

 Percy the two Wrights Winter and Catesby and some 

 others whose names she knows not did often repair and 

 had with him in his Chamber much secret conference 

 the summc of which was only known to themselves yet 

 knowing them to be papistes she did much dislyke his 

 being there suspecting him to be a priest : which he soon 

 perceiving made show of preparing himself for a Journey 

 into Yorkshire and so departed, leaving order that if 

 Thorn Wright came for his trunkes (hey should be de- 

 livered to him which about some fortnight after he did 

 receive. 



" He was as they of the house described him a tall 

 man with a Browne hair and an auborne beard was in 

 good Clothes and full of money and whyl.- he lave there 

 did fly from the acquaintance of all the Gentlemen that 



• See ante, pp. W. 173. 



lay in the house conversing only with those above named 

 and their companions when they came to him." * 



On the morning of the 6th of November, 

 Fawkes, under the assumed name of John John- 

 son, was examined for the second time before the 

 Lords of the Council at the Tower. This exam- 

 ination does not appear to have been read at the 

 trial, and as it has not been published, is but 

 little known. I give it here in its original spell- 

 ing : — 



" The Examination of John Johnsonne the 6 th of 



November 1605 before twelve of the clock in 



the morning. 



" What tyme was it that M r . Tho s . Percye gave order 

 for the making of a mine down into the Cellar where the 

 powder was? 



" He saytke about the middle of Lent his master gave 

 order to make a mine into the Cellar that he might have 

 a narrow way out of his own house into the Cellar. 



" How long was the Powder in the Cellar before that 

 tyme? 



" He saith there was no powder in the Cellar at that 

 tyme but that it laj-e in his Master's own house. 



" How long after the mine was made was the powder 

 carried out of his master's house ? 



" He saith some three or four days after. 



" Who helped you to bring the powder out of the 

 house into the Cellar? 



" He saith he did it himself. 



" Whether did you remove it in Barrells or otherwise ? 



" He saith in Barrells. 



" In what place did it lye in the house? 



" He saith in a lowe Room. 



" He confesseth he made a frock like a Carter to wear 

 over his apparrell. 



" He confesseth he hath been a recusant about these 

 xx years. 



" Being demanded where he laye on Wednesday at 

 night last, 



" He answereth he hath forgotten. 



" Being demanded where he laye on Thursday at night ? 



" He saith he hath forgotten. 



" Being demanded where he laye uppon Friday and 

 Saturday ? 



" He answereth he knows not. 



" Being demanded when he had gotten the Brewer's 

 slings and for what purpose he had them there (in the 

 cellar) ? 



" He answereth be did not use the slings to bring in 

 the Powder but to remove it. 



" Being demanded whether he thinks if his Master M r . 

 Thomas Percy had been acquainted with the Plot he 

 would have suffered the E. of Northumberland to have 

 perished ? 



" He saith He thinketh his Master would have been 

 loath to have done him hurt by saying he was bound 

 unto him. 



" Whether do yon know one Griffin that liveth over 

 against Shorebridge (?) or thereabouts? 



" He saith He neither knows him or ever was in his 

 house. 



" What letters have beene directed to you of late from 

 beyonde the seas? 



" He answereth None. 



" When you were beyonde the seas what speech had 

 you with Sir Edmonde Baynham and Sir W"'. Cobb. 



" He answereth He saw them not. 



* " Domestic Series, James I.," vol. xvi. No. 25. 



