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Sir Everard Digby's Letters from the Tower
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Sunday sevenight before the day: to which I could not answer, for I did not remember; but they told me I was in the company of Father Walley,[1] Father Greenway, and Father Gerrard at Mrs. Vauxe's; I told them I had been in their companies, but not there, or anywhere else with others but myself; they said Mr. Greenway came to Huddington[2] when we there, and had speech with Mr.,[3] but I told them it was more than I took note of, and that I did not know him very well, that he would be very careful of himself; my lord of Salisbury told me he had received my letter,[4] but if the King should propose such a course he had no need of me. I was not much pressed in these matters, and so they dismissed me for this time. Farewell my dearest.'

Paper IV

'Since my late writing, I have been examined about the knowledge of Foster and Hamon. I give my Brother many thanks for his sweet comforts, and assure him that now I desire death; for the more I think on God's mercy the more I hope in my own case: though others have censured our intention otherwise than I understood them to be, and though the act be

  1. Garnet.
  2. On his own admission, Greenway actually said Mass for the conspirators at Huddington.
  3. Evidently Catesby, who introduced Greenway to the conspirators as 'A gentleman who would live and die with them!'
  4. The text of this letter will be reproduced later in this chapter.