"_Mrs. Layton_ (Mistress of the s^d Tavern) sayes that M^r Gateley was there in the morning upon that day, when a Water-man was left in charge of some Goods in his Chamber and that Hee was in the Room, up One pair of Stairs next the street.
"_Mathias Gateley_ sayes that Hee came not into that Tavern till about 4 of the Clock afternoon: but acknowledges that there he was and in the Chamber toward the Street in Company with one M^r Billingsley.
"Hee denyes the having any Box upon the Table; The calling for a Hammer; The having seen any of the Hawkers there; And upon the whole matter, The having had anything to doe with the Catholicks Apology.
"The Mistress of the Tavern, Two Drawers, and the Two Hawkers doe all agree upon the same person."
(Indorsed). Dec. 66. M^r Lestranges report of his enquiry after the Ro. Cath. Apology.
"The Examination of [ ] Gately taken before [ ]
"That he was not at the Bell Taverne on Monday Fortnight in the morning.
"That Friday month M^r Billingsley invited him to that Taverne, he being ready to goe to Roehampton to the E. of Aylesbury whom he serves, He had certaine Bundles of Cloathes, &c. which he called a Waterman to carry for him, denying to have been there on Monday.
"That he was there only once in a morning, but went not up Staires, and that was Friday fortnight.
"That on the day in question (Monday fortnight), He dranke his morning's draught with the page in a woman's house in St. John's Close about 10 where he parted not till about 11, then he dressed himselfe at home and dined at home, after that desiring leave to goe abroad 2 or 3 houres, in the afternoone he mett M^r Billingsley towards Charing Crosse, with whom he dranke 2 glasses of wine at the King's head Taverne at Charing Crosse. Then to Billingsley's House who showed him the Cath^{ cke} Apology.
"That a Porter came and enquired for him by his name when he was drinking his morning's draught from Gately and company. He came and found the Gentlemen in a foreroome and under the Table was a parcell of Bookes, which they called to him to sell, which he declined, and so left them, and having told A. B. another Hawker of Books, they both went up together and A. B. tooke 200 of them to sell, and relieves Gately from all Relacions and understands to have been one of the two.