We came to seek you, my son," he continued, addressing Fawkes.

"All those engaged in the great enterprise are about to meet in a summer-house in the garden." "I am ready to attend you," replied Fawkes.

"Will Sir William Radcliffe be there ?" "No," replied Garnet; "he has not yet joined us.

None will be present at this meeting but the sworn conspirators." With this, the trio took their way towards the garden, and proceeding along a walk edged with clipped yew-trees, came to the summer-house,--a small circular building overrun with ivy and creepers, and ornamented in front by two stone statues on pedestals.

Here they found Sir Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, Francis Tresham, Thomas and Robert Winter, John and Christopher Wright, awaiting their arrival.
The door being closed and bolted, Garnet, placing himself in the midst of the assemblage, said, "Before we proceed further, I will again administer the oath to all present." Drawing from his vest a primer, and addressing Sir Everard Digby, he desired him to kneel, and continued thus in a solemn tone, "You shall swear by the Blessed Trinity, and by the sacrament you propose to receive, never to disclose directly nor indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof, until the rest shall give you leave." "I swear," replied Digby, kissing the primer.
The oath was then taken in like manner by the others.