CHAPTER XXI
BEHIND THE SCENES
Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower at the period of the Gunpowder Plot, has left on record[1] a list of names[2] which he considers to have included all the persons concerned in hatching the famous conspiracy. This list mentions not only the thirteen conspirators universally allowed to have been engaged in the plot, but the following persons in addition, viz. Henry Morgan, Sir Edward Baynham, Hugh Owen, Sir William Stanley, Thomas Abington, Henry Garnet, John Gerard, Oswald Tesond,[3] Hammond,[4] John Winter, and Baldwin.[5] From this list we can erase the names of Sir William Stanley and Thomas Abington, for, I think, the good and sufficient reason that their innocence has been satisfactorily established. Of the rest, I have already dealt with Hugh Owen, Garnet,
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