three points, Prance could not but contradict it. He thus could not
accuse Bedloe's Jesuits. He did not name other men, as Mr. Pollock
holds, to shield the Jesuits. Practically they did not need to be
shielded. Jesuits with seven weeks' start of the law were safe
enough. Even if they were caught, were guilty, and had the truth
extracted from them, involving Prance, the truth about HIM would
come out, whether he now denounced them or not. But he did not know
that Bedloe had denounced them.

*Pollock, pp. 142, 143.

Mr. Pollock's theory of the relation of Bedloe to Godfrey's murder
is this: Bedloe had no hand in the murder, and never saw the
corpse. The crime was done in Somerset House, 'the Queen's
confessor,' Father Le Fevre, S.J., having singular facilities for
entering, with his friends, and carrying a dead body out 'through a
private door'--a door not mentioned by any witnesses, nor proved to
exist by the evidence of a chart. This Le Fevre, with Walsh, lived
in the same house as Bedloe. From them, Bedloe got his information.
'It is easy to conjecture how he could have obtained it. Walsh and
Le Fevre were absent from their rooms, for a considerable part of
the nights of Saturday and Wednesday, October 12 and 16. Bedloe's
suspicions must have been aroused, and, either by threats or
cajolery, he wormed part of the secret out of his friends. He
obtained a general idea of the way in which the murder had been
committed and of the persons concerned in it. One of these was a
frequenter of the Queen's chapel whom he knew by sight. He thought
him to be a subordinate official there.'*

*Pollock, pp. 157, 158.