Note 613 — Chapter III

6 State Trials 1509. Lingard (xiii. 108) states on the authority of Les Conspirations d’Angleterre that Fromante, who is there called Firmin, was put into prison to prevent his appearance at the trial; but the work is by no means above suspicion, and is directly contradicted on the point. Large extracts from Les Conspirations d’Angleterre, which was published in 1681 and is now extremely rare, are quoted by Arnauld, Œuvres xiv. 515–535. Arnauld says in a note: “C’est M. Rocole, ancien chanoine de S. Benoit à Paris, qui en est l’auteur; mais l’avertissement qui le fait paraître Protestant, n’est pas de lui.” There is among the State Papers an order in council for the arrest of Bartholemew Fermin for high treason on account of the Popish Plot, but without date. S.P. Dom. Charles II 408; i. 110.