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C H A. p. to lay the business before that minister. Tonguelxvii. confessed to Danby, that he himself had not.167S - drawn the papers , that they had been secretlythrust under his door, and that, though he sus-pended , he did not certainly know, who wasthe author. After a few days, he returned,and told the treasurer, that his suspicions, hefound, were just; and that the author of the in-telligence, whom he had met twice or thricein the street, had acknowledged the whole matter,and had given him a more particular account ofthe conspiracy, but desired, that his name mightbe concealed, being appiehensive lest the papistsshould murder him.

The information was renedved with regard toGrove’s and Pickering’s intentions of shooting theking; and Tongue even pretended, that, at aparticular time, they were to set out for Windsorwith that intention. Orders were given for arrestingthem , as soon as they should appear in that place :But though this alarm was more than once renew-ed , some frivolous reasons were still found byTongue for their having delayed the journey.And the king concluded , both from these eva-sions, and from the mysterious, artificial mannerof communicating the intelligence , that the wholewas an imposture.

Tongue came next to the treasurer, and toldhim, that a pacejiiet of letters, written by jesuitsconcerned in.the plot, was that night to be putinto the post-house for Windsor, directed toBennifield, ajesuit, confessor to the duke. When