Since the appearance of my article on John Huddleston in the last issue of “Biographical Studies” (168–188), Mr. Granville Squiers has called my attention to some notes of Pepys which he has discovered together with an unpublished MS in which Fr Huddleston describes his share in the escape of King Charles II after the battle of Worcester. These papers are now bound in the Boscobel book in the Pepys Library. I am indebted to Mr. Squiers for permission to print relevant extracts from these notes and also for several helpful suggestions in connexion with them.

Thomas Wright was given access to Guy Fawkes soon after his arrest in the vault of the House of Lords. The authority for this interesting incident in his career is a statement of the priest Richard Broughton in his book “English Protestant Plea for English Priests and Papists” of 1621. “The Lords of the Council requested that a priest should be appointed to perswade and assure Fauxe (a chief agent in it) that he was bound in conscience to utter what he could of the conspiracie, and Mr Tho. Write a learned priest did hereupon come to the Councell and offer his best service herein, and had a warrant subsigned with 12 Privie Councellors hands, which he showed unto me, and I am witnesse of his having such a Warrant. (p. 59. cit. Dom Raymund Webster. The Downside Review. Oct. 1936. p. 503.)