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and partly also because, having been employed in carrying messages, he suspected that he had some inkling of the secret, and wished that, like the rest, he should be bound to keep it by oath. Bates is described as a yeoman, and
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Having been desired to confirm his oath by receiving the Sacrament
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and as a pre-requisite of this was confession, Bates went to Greenway, whom he acquainted with the particulars,
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and asked if he might lawfully join in such work. Greenway directed him to keep the secret,
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and forbade him to name the subject to any other priest. This is Bates's account; Greenway asserts that Bates never named the subject to him, either in or out of confession; but the Jesuit code of morality required his denial, if he had heard it in confession only. Poor Bates was the most innocent of the conspirators, and the most truly penitent: he was rather a tool and a victim than a miscreant. He lost his life through neglect of a much-forgotten precept--
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If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.