aid;[17] all which
seven were gentlemen of name and blood, and not any was employed in or
about this action (no, not so much as in digging and mining) that was not
a gentleman.

[13] Thomas Winter.

[14] Catesby, Percy, and John Wright.

[15] _I.e._, Catesby. In a copy forwarded to Edmondes by Salisbury
(Stowe MSS. 168, fol. 223) the copyist had originally written
"three or four more," which is altered to "three."

[16] Christopher Wright.

[17] Robert Winter.

"And having wrought to the wall before Christmas, they ceased until after
the holidays, and the day before Christmas (having a mass of earth that
came out of the mine) they carried it into the garden of the said house,
and after Christmas they wrought the wall till Candlemas, and wrought the
wall half through; and saith that all the time while the other wrought,
he stood as sentinel, to decry any man that came near; and when any man
came near to the place, upon warning given by him they ceased until they
had notice to proceed from him; and sayeth that they seven all lay in the
house, and had shot and powder, and they all resolved to die in that
place, before they yielded or were taken.

"And, as they were working, they heard a rushing in the cellar, which
grew by one Bright's selling of his coals,[18] whereupon this examinant,
fearing they had been discovered, went into the cellar and viewed the
cellar, and perceiving the commodity thereof for their purpose, and
understanding how it would be letten, his master, Mr. Percy, hired the
cellar for a year for L4 rent; and confesseth that after Christmas twenty
barrels of powder were brought by themselves to a house, which they had
on the bank side in hampers, and from that house removed the powder to
the said house near the Upper House of Parliament; and, presently, upon
hiring the cellar they themselves removed the powder into the cellar, and
covered the same with fagots which they had before laid into the cellar.

[18] This is an obvious mistake, as the widow Skinner was not at
this time married to Bright, but one just as likely to be made by
Fawkes himself as by his examiners.

"After, about Easter, he went into the Low Countries (as he before hath
declared in his former examination) and that the true purpose of his
going over was, lest, being a dangerous man, he should be known and
suspected, and in the mean time he left the key of the cellar wit