Letters of subscription were circulated among the Catholics all over England, to raise a sum for the same purpose.

No less than fifty Jesuits had met, in May last, at the White Horse Tavern, where it was unanimously agreed to put the king to death.

This synod did afterwards, for more convenience, divide themselves into many lesser cabals or companies; and Oates was employed to carry notes and letters from one to another, all tending to the same end, of murdering the king.

He even carried, from one company to another, a paper, in which they formally expressed their resolution of executing that deed; and it was regularly subscribed by all of them.

A wager of a hundred pounds was laid, and stakes made, that the king should eat no more Christmas pies.