Coaching days and coaching ways . nd London must haverung to the sound of their horses hoofs, as they rodefiercely through the night—always through the night wemay well believe—between White Webbs and Catesby was here ten days before the meditatedexplosion is evident from Winters confession :— Then was the parliament anew prorogued until thefifth of November, so as we all went down untilsome ten days before, when Mr. Catesby came up withMr. Fawkes to an house by Enfield Chase, called WhiteWebbs, whither I came to them, and Mr. Catesby willedme to inquire whether the young prince ca
Coaching days and coaching ways . nd London must haverung to the sound of their horses hoofs, as they rodefiercely through the night—always through the night wemay well believe—between White Webbs and Catesby was here ten days before the meditatedexplosion is evident from Winters confession :— Then was the parliament anew prorogued until thefifth of November, so as we all went down untilsome ten days before, when Mr. Catesby came up withMr. Fawkes to an house by Enfield Chase, called WhiteWebbs, whither I came to them, and Mr. Catesby willedme to inquire whether the young prince came to theparliament ; I toldc him I heard that his grace thoughtnot to be there. Then must we have our horses, said 294 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS Mr. Catesby, beyond the water, and provision of morecompany to surprise the prince, and leave the dukealone. That a more important factor in the deadly design—ifthe latest judgment of posterity is to be believed—eventhan Catesby himself was frequently at the old house in. The Green Dragon, Cheshunt. Enfield Chase is shown in the examination of JamesJohnson ; that is to say in the examination of GuyFawkes. It was stated by him that the place had been taken ofDr. Huicke by his master, Mr. Meaze, of Berkshire, forhis sister Mrs. Perkins {alias Mrs. Ann Vaux) ; thatMrs. Vaux had spent a month there, and mass had beensaid by a priest whose name deponent did not know. THE YORK ROAD 295 And as Mr. Meaze, of Berkshire, was none other thanHenry Garnet, the Provincial of the English Jesuits, theimportance of the testimony becomes apparent. Andthe fact gives birth to a fancy. It is interesting to meto think that Mr. Meaze, of Berkshire, with his candidblue eyes, his fair curling hair, his polished courteousmanners, his form tending to an embonpoint by no meanssuggestive of asceticism ; it is interesting to me, I say,to think that Mr. Meaze, of Berkshire, may have been awell-known and respected figure about Enfield he ma
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