id Catesby, stooping
from his saddle to put two shillings in the hand of his guide.

The whole party now rode away in the direction of Coventry.

"Well, that's a queer start!" said the blacksmith to himself, looking
first after the horsemen, and then down at the money in his hand. "If
it hadn't a-been Muster Catesby, now, and Tom Bates, might ha' thought
us 'd been out wi' the fairies this even. You're good silver, aren't
you? Let we see. Ay--an Edward shovelboard [Note 5], and a new
shilling o' King James, and three groats o' Queen Bess--that's not fairy
silver, I 'count. Come along, Yethard!" [Note 6] as he scrambled on
the back of his shaggy friend. "Thee and me'll go home now. Us has
done a good night's work. They shillings 'll please she, if her's not
in a tantrum. Gee up wi' thee!"

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Note 1. Sicklemore, one of the priests, said with a sigh, "The Divell
is in that Lord of Salisbury! All our undoing is his doing, and the
execution of Garnet is his only deed." (Additional Manuscript 6178,
folio 165.)

Note 2. Clerkenwell was a suburb wherein many Roman Catholics dwelt.
"There were divers houses of recusants in Saint John's Street," among
them those of Sir Henry James and Thomas Sleep, at the last of which
Fawkes was a frequent visitor. Mrs Wyniard bore witness that when
Fawkes paid her the last quarter's rent, on Sunday, November 3rd, he had
"good store of gould in his pocket."

Note 3. Modern writers are apt to confuse nought and naught. At this
time they were quite distinct, the former signifying _nothing_, and the
latter (whence naughty is derived) _wickedness_.

Note 4. This is the gentleman described by the Hot Gospeller as coming
to the door of the council-chamber, "looking as the wolf doth for a
lamb; unto whom my two keepers delivered me," and "he took me in
greedily." (Narrative of Edward Underhill, Harl. Manuscript 424, folio
87, b.)

Note 5. The shilling of Edward the Sixth acquired this popular name
from being so large and flat, that it was found convenient for use in
the game of shovelboard.

Note 6. The Northamptonshire pronunciation of Edward.

CHAPTER NINE.

ON THE WEARY WAY TO HOLBEACH.

"And thou hast fashioned idols of thine own--
Idols of gold, of silver, and of stone:
To them hast bowed the knee, and breathed the breath,
And they must help thee in the hour of death."

Sir