intended some dangerous matter about the parliament-house, because he had been sent to get a lodging near unto that place. Then did they make the said Bates take an oath to be secret in the action: which being taken by him, they then told him that it was true that they were to execute a great matter; namely, to lay powder under the parliament-house, to blow it up. Then they also told him that he was to receive the sacrament, for the more assurance; and thereupon he went to confession to Tesmond, the jesuit; and in his confession told him, that he was to conceal a very dangerous piece of work that his master Catesby and Thomas Winter had imparted to him, and said he much feared the matter to be utterly unlawful; and therein desired the counsel of the jesuit, and revealed to him the whole intent and purpose of blowing up the parliament-house, upon the first day of the assembly, at which the King, the Queen, the Prince, the lords spiritual and temporal, the judges, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, should all have been there convened and met together. But the jesuit, being a confederate therein before, resolved L solved and encouraged him in the action; and said that he should be secret in that which his master had imparted unto him, for that it was a good cause : adding, moreover, that it was not dangerous unto him, nor any offence to conceal it. And thereupon the jesuit gave him absolution; and Bates received the sacrament of him, in the company of his master Robert Catesby, and Thomas Winter. When condemned, he craved pardon, as being ignorant of the consequence of what he had concealed, and as being led into it by his Master, Tesmond, and Winter; he was however executed January 22, 1606. APPENDIX. NOTWITHSTANDING the detection of the Gun-powder Plot, and the severity of the laws against Seminary and Missionary Priests, the Jesuits about the year 1614, encouraged by the Spanish Ambassador, Count Gondamor, held frequent meetings at the house of one Lovet, a goldsmith, in Fetter-Lane, who had a printing-press in his house for popish books; which were artfully distributed, through the means of the following persons, who in a pamphlet published about this time, intituled Vox Populi, are called Jesuits and Jesuited Priests. In this book is a very scarce and curious print, with the following inscription: "The Portraiture of the Jesuits and Priests, as they use to sit at council in England, to further the catholic cause. Dr. Bishop, Dr. Bristow, Dr. Wright, F. Palmer, F. Wood, F. Lurtice, F. Maxfield, F. Higham, F. Sweete, F. Ployden (or Plowden), D. Smith, F. Lovet, F. Anineur, F. Worthington, F. Porter, F. Pateson." The |