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92 MARY STUART AND THE BABINGTON PLOT
he woulde afterward recommend some vnto her, and he
saith his promise was to have sounded some for that
service, as he hath before declared upon returne of her
aunswere.
(5) He saieth he meant to have chosen ten gents, one
of the countie of Suffolk, one [of] Darby to have delivered
the Scottish Queene, either of them to have ben accom¬
panied with ten followers, but he never found any for that
purpose, but Sir Thomas Gerard and Thomas Salsbury.
But his intention was that the L. Paget shoulde haue
returned secretly, and he also meant to have moued the
L. Staff, in respect of his decay, and som hope to have
been conceyved by this meanes to have been releived.
He meant also Mr. John Draycote, Mr. John Gifford, Mr.
Samson Oulswick, Mr. Fowler and Mr. Wolusley in Staff,
shire, and in darbieshire Sir Thomas Fytcherbert and the
rest of his name, and Nicholas Langfourd in Worcestershire.1
Mr John Talbot of Grafton and the Throckmortons and
the L. Windsor, if by his brothers meanes he coulde be
drawen vnto it.
(6) And whereas in his letter to the Scottish Queene he
subscribeth your sworne servant he denied that ever he
was sworne vnto her, but vowed his service by that
letter, and never before, but limited and restrained with
his duetie and allegiance to the Queene Maiestie.
(7) Touchinge the portes he saith that there were none
assured saving, as Ballard sayde, Hartipole in the North,
1 For Sir Thomas Gerard of Bryn see Cath. Record Society, xxi. passim.
Thomas, third Baron Paget, has a notice in D.N.B. Edward, twelfth
Baron Stafford, in consequence, no doubt, of this confession, was nomi¬
nated one of the jury of peers to condemn Queen Mary; but he is men¬
tioned in 1574 as a Catholic in Cath. Rec. Soc., xiii. 90. John Draycote,
Babington’s father-in-law, of Draycote, Staffs., was a wealthy and staunch
recusant, Cath. Rec. Soc., xviii. 301-8. John Gifford of Chilhngton was
the father of Gilbert Gifford. ‘ Samson Oulswick ’ I cannot identify, but
take the name to be a clerical error for Sampson Erdswick of Sandon
parish, Staffs, {ibid., xviii. 301). Mr. Fowler seems to be Bryan Fowler,
of St. Thomas, beside Stafford (ibid., xiii. 128, 136, also xxii. 92). ‘ Mr.
Wolusley in Staff.shire,’ seems to be Erasmus Wolsley of Wolsley, Colwich
parish, Staffs, (ibid., xviii. 295). ‘ Nicholas Langfourd in Worcestershire,'
is Nicholas Langford of Longford in Derbyshire (ibid., xviii. 28, etc.).