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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2 D * S. IX. ArniL 14. 'GO. 



" Who helped you to remove the Barrells of Powder 

 seeing you were not able to remove them alone with the 

 slings with which you confessetb you did remove them ? 



" He answereth He cannot discover the party but he 

 shall bring him in question. 



" With whom did you leave the ke}' of the Cellar in 

 your absence when your M r . caused "the Billetts to be 

 la3 T ed in in the Cellar? 



" He answereth he left the keye with his Master. 



" When you were over in the Lowe Countries whether 

 had you conference with one M r . Hugh Owen or no ? 



" He answereth He had none but ordinary Salutation 

 when he found him in other Company. 



" " John Johnson. 



"Being demanded whether the Billetts that were laid 

 into the Cellar were laid in before the Powder or after 

 He saith that part were laid in before and part after and 

 that those as were laid in before the powder were laid 

 in by himself: the rest were laid in when he was absent 

 in the Lowe Countries which was between Easter and 

 September. 



" Being asked where he lighted when he came out of 

 the Country and when? 



" He saith He lighted at the Chequer in Holborn 

 upon Saturday last in the day light towards night. 



" Being demanded upon his sowle as there had been 

 some which must have brought this Kealme to be sub- 

 dued by some foreign prince of what foreign prince he 

 and his companions would have wished to have been 

 governed one more than another? 



" He doth protest upon his sowle that neither he nor 

 an}' other with whom he had conferred would have 

 spared the last drop of their Blood to have resisted any 

 foreign princes whatever. 



"John Johnson. 



" Notingham. Suffolk. Devonshire. 

 H. Northampton. 

 Salisbury." 



On the fly-leaf of this Examination are these 

 words in Coke's handwriting : — 



"You would have me discover my friends. 



" The Giving warning to one overthrew us all." * 



This examination was taken, as the endorse- 

 ment expresses it, " before twelve of the Clocke 

 in ye morning." James then issued his warrant 

 for the application of the torture, written en- 

 tirely in his own handwriting, and annexed to it 

 a series of questions to be answered by Fawkes. 

 The warrant apparently was issued about noon of 

 the 6th of November, and in the afternoon of the 

 same day the following " answers" were returned 

 to it. The Interrogatories will be found in "N. 

 & Q." (2 na S. viii. 3G9.) The figures in the 

 Answers refer to the questions contained in the 

 warrant. 



" To the 1 st he sayth his name is John Johnsonue. 



2. he was borne in Yorkshire in Netherdale. 



3. his fathers name was Tho. Johnson his mothers 

 Edith daughter of one Jacksonne. 



4. his age xxxvi years. 



5. he hath liued in Yorkshire first at schoole ther and 

 then to Cambridge and after in sundrye other places. 



6. his maintenaunce was by a larme of xxx 1 per ann. 



7. his skarrs came by the healing of a pleurasye. 



«. he neu r serucd any before he serued M r . Thb. Percie. 



'• Gunpowder-Plot Book," No. 1G. a. 



9. he procured !M r . Percies service only by his owne 

 means, being a Yorkshireman about Easter was twel- 

 month. 



10. his M r . hyred the house about Midsum r . was twel- 

 month. 



11. Aboutethe Christmas followinge he began to bring 

 in the Gunpowder. 



12. He did learne to speake frenshe first here in Eng- 

 land and increased yt at his last being beyond the seas. 



13. The letter that was founde about him was from a 

 Gentlewoman raaryed to an Englishman called Bostock 

 in Flanders. 



14. The reason why she calleth him by another name 

 was bycause he called himself Faukes. 



15. He sayth he was brought upp a Catholique by his 

 parents. 



16. He was eu r a Catholique and neu r converted. 

 That he went out from Dover amongst strangers and 



there landed againe at his retorne. 



" Jhon Jhonsone." 

 (Endorsed) " 6"' November, 1G05. 



"The Examination of Johnson 

 to ye k.'s Articles, in the 

 Afternoon.* 



This was the last examination Fawkes signed 

 under the alias of Johnson. 



The letter alluded to as found on his person, 

 and addressed to him by the name of Fawkes, 

 was in reality from Ann Vaux, and contained 

 certain expressions which ultimately gave rise to 

 great suspicion against the writer, who under- 

 went a long examination on the subject. The 

 material part has been preserved in a quaint 

 note of Sir Edward Coke, and was as follows : — 



" Fast and praye that the ppose may come to pass and 

 then Totnam shall be turned French." f 



Amongst the many other letters sent to Salis- 

 bury concerning the Gunpowder Plot, are two 

 written by persons whose names are probably 

 better known now than they were in 1605 — Ben 

 Jonson and Francis Bacon. Jonson's letter has 

 been already published. 



Bacon with his letter sends also the following 

 Examination : — 



" Yt may please yor lp 



" I send an Examinacon of one was brought to me by 

 the priucipall and ancients of Staple Inn concerning the 

 words of one Beard suspected for a Papist and practizer 

 being generall words but badd and I thought not good 

 to neglect any thing at such a tyme ; So with significa- 

 tion of humble dewty I remayn 



" At yo r Is hon. com" 



" Most humblj', 



" F. Bacon. 

 " Enclosing 



"The exam of J. Drake servant to Tho. Reynolls 



shoemaker dwelling in Holborn near Graies 



Inn Gate Yard taken this 6th of November 



1605. 



" He saith that the morning of this present day he re- 



payred to the lodging of one M T . Beard in the house of 



one Gibson in Fetter Lane and against the new Church 



Yard to take measure for new Boots and it was in the 



* " Gunpowder-Plot Book," No. 19. 



f " Domestic Series, James I., vol. xvi. p. 7. 



