Note 348 — Chapter XIII

A modern Jesuit thinks otherwise (see The Month, No. 367, p. 8), quoting Cecil’s letter to Favat (Brit. Museum MSS. Add. 6178. fol. 625). “Most of the prisoners have wilfully forsworn that the priests knew anything in particular, and obstinately refuse to be accusers of them, yea, what torture soever they be put to.”Cecil may have referred to Fawkes only when he mentioned torture; but the Jesuit Father may be right, and he gives other evidence in support of his theory.