Note 303 — Chapter XI

Nevertheless, Abington was condemned to death, because Father Garnet was found in his house, a few weeks later. He was eventually reprieved; but his lands and goods were forfeited. See Narrative of the G. P., Gerard, p. 268. He was “confined to Worcestershire on account of the Gunpowder Treason Plot,”and became “The first Collector of Antiquities for that County. Died Oct. 1647, aged 87.”Nash’s Worcestershire, Vol i. Illustrations to p. 588. His wife, sister to Lord Mounteagle, “is supposed to have wrote the letter which discovered the Gunpowder Treason Plot;”ib.