Parliament, its successive adjournments, 67, 70 _note_, 91, 114, 230; meets on the day of the "discovery," 136; activity against Catholics, 5, 212 _seq._
Parry, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Paris, instructions given to, 28 _note_; intelligence supplied by, 98, 101, 102; account of the discovery furnished to, 126 _seq._
Parsons, Father Robert, S.J., letters to, 29 _note_, 77, 223; his views as to the succession, 249; on Walsingham's "spyery," 77.
Percy, Thomas, one of the first and principal conspirators, 9, 64; his antecedents, 36, 37, 148; house hired by him, 60; and "cellar," 75; strange conduct in both transactions, 88; conduct afterwards, 88, 91; undertakes to seize Duke Charles or Princess Elizabeth, 82; his death, 4, 152 _seq_; profession of religious zeal, 148; bigamy, _ibid_; Catholics suspicious of him, 150; alleged secret dealings with Cecil, 151; the case against him, 148-156. _See also_ Conspirators.
Phelippes, Thomas, the "decipherer," employed by the government, 111; their devices against him, 112; correspondence with Hugh Owen, 185 _note_.
Pickering, Mr., and his horse, 261. _Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith_, 49.
Plots under Elizabeth and James I., 14, 15, 153, 157 _note_, 193 _note_; their common feature, 13.
_Polititian's Catechism_, 51 _note_, 106, 137 _note_.
Pope Clement VIII., interchanges communications with James I., 104.
Pope Paul V., represented as an accomplice in the Plot, 5, 239.
Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 170 _note_, 197, 266.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, Cecil's enmity towards him, 26 _note_, 48 _note_, 198; his ruin, 26, 216; attempt to implicate him in the Powder Plot, 197, 198.
Ratcliffe, Ralph, a government spy, 95, 96, 191.
Rogers, Professor Thorold, on the value of money, 117 _note_; on James's title to the throne, 34.
Rokewood, Ambrose, 179 _note_. _See also_ Conspirators.
Salisbury, first Earl of. _See_ Cecil, Robert.
Salisbury, second Earl of. _See_ Cecil, William.
Schondonck, Father Giles, S. J., Rector of St. Omers, on the innocence of the Jesuits, 201; on Cecil's manifesto, 222.
Shakespeare, never alludes to the Plot, 226 _note_.
Smith, John Thomas (_Antiquities of Westminster_), 58 _note_, 79 _note_, 89 _note_.
Southwaick, or Southwell, a government spy, 99-102.