1. That he gave Sir Edward Baynham some letters to carry to Rome. (He was a party, therefore, to sending Baynham to the Pope.)
2. The extraordinary rewards received by him for taking the warning letter to Cecil.
3. Garnet's reluctance to mention Mounteagle's name, when examined by the council.
4. Garnet's remark (overheard in the Tower), 'I see they will justify my Lord Mounteagle of all this matter. I said nothing of him, neither will I ever confess him.'[1]
5. His relationship to the Winters, Tresham, Percy, Catesby, and others.
6. He had been concerned in former treasons with the Winters, Grant, Tresham, Garnet, Oldcorne, Greenway, and Christopher Wright.
7. His secret meeting at Fremland (Essex), in July, 1605, with Catesby, Garnet, and others.
8. The Government made every attempt to suppress his name during the various examinations and the trial of the conspirators.
9. He seems to have been with Catesby, at Bath, shortly before Michaelmas, 1605, i.e. some six weeks before the 5th of November.
10. Popular contemporary opinion favoured the notion that Lord Mounteagle was concerned in the plot, for Cecil in his secret instructions to Coke, concerning the trial of the conspirators,
- ↑ On March 27, 1606, Garnet, however, confessed that 'Mr. Catesby did shew them (the Pope's Breves) to my Lord Monteagle at the same time when Mr. Tressam was with him at White Webbs.'
