 Speaking for the government , Edward Coke accused him of involvement in every treason since 1586 , the year he returned to England . According to Coke , the provincial superior was involved in the Main and Bye Plots of 1603 . He had sent Edmund Baynham to Rome to gain papal approval for the 1605 plot , and while at Coughton in November , had prayed " for the success of the great action " . Coke called Garnet " a doctor of five Ds , namely , of dissimulation , of deposing of princes , of disposing of kingdoms , of daunting and deterring of subjects , and of destruction " . His supposed inappropriate relationship with Anne Vaux was mentioned , but his adherence to the doctrine of equivocation proved extremely damaging . Francis Tresham 's deathbed letter , which claimed that Garnet had played no part in the so @-@ called Spanish Treason , was read aloud . Tresham claimed not to have seen Garnet " for fifteen or sixteen years before " , despite government evidence that the two had met more recently . Garnet had not seen the letter and did not know that it referred to events before 1602 , not 1605 . He was unable to explain it , except by saying " it may be , my Lord , that he meant to equivocate . " 
