374 CONFESSION OF SIR JOHN DAVIS. 



swered, that my lord consulted to possess himself of 

 the court, at such convenient time when he might 

 find least opposition. For executing of which enter 

 prises, and of other affairs, he appointed my lord of 

 Southampton, Sir Charles Davers, Sir Ferdinando 

 Gorge, and himself, to meet at Drury-house, and 

 there to consider of the same, and such other projects 

 as his lordship delivered them : and principally, for 

 surprising of the court, and for the taking of the 

 Tower of London. About which business they had 

 two meetings, which were five or six days before the 

 insurrection. 



He farther saith, that Sir Christopher Blunt was 

 not at this consultation, but that he stayed and ad 

 vised with my lord himself about other things to 

 him unknown : for that my lord trusted several men 

 in several businesses, and not all together. 



Being demanded, what was resolved in the opi 

 nions of these four before named ? He saith, that Sir 

 Charles Davers was appointed to the presence-cham 

 ber, and himself to the hall : and that my lord was 

 to determine himself, who should have guarded the 

 court-gate and the water-gate. And that Sir Charles 

 Davers, upon a signal or a watch-word, should have 

 come out of the presence into the guard-chamber ; 

 and then some out of the hall to have met him, and 

 so have stept between the guard and their halberds; 

 of which guard they hoped to have found but a dozen, 

 or some such small number. 



Being asked, whether he heard that such as my 

 lord misliked should have received any violence ? 



