In the Romish religion and walked in that, because I knew no better, so
have I not sodainely or lightly made the chaunge, which nowe I desire to
be seane In, for I speake, Sir, as before him that shall Judg my soule,
I have by praier, for god his gidance, and with voues to him, to walk in
that light he should shew me, and by longe carefull and diligent
readinge, and conference with lerned men, on both sides, and impartiall
examination of ther profes and argumentes, come to discerne the
Ignorance I was formerly wrapped In, as I nowe wonder that ether my
self, or any other of common understandinge, showld bee so blynded, as
to Imbrace that gods trewth, [_sic_] which I nowe perseyue to be
grounded uppon so weake foundations. And as I never could digest all
poyntes therin, wherof not few seamed to bee made for gaine and
ambition, of the papacye, so nowe I fynde that the hole frame and bodye
of that religion (wherin they oppose us) difereth from the platforme,
which god him self hath recorded In the holy scriptures, and hath In
length of tyme, by the Ignorance and deceiptfulness of men, bene peaced
together, and is now maintayned by factious obstinacye, and certain
coulerable pretences, such as the wittes and learninge of men, are able
to cast uppon any humaine errors, which they list to uphowld. Nether
have I left any thinge I doubted of untried or unresolued, becawse I did
Intend and desire to so take up the trewth of god, once discouered to
me, as neuer to suffer yt to bee questioned any more In my owne
consienc. And In all this, Sir, I protest to your maiestye, before
almightye god, I have simply and only propounded to my self the trew
seruise of god, and saluation of my owne soule, Not gaine, not honor, no
not that which I doe most highly valew, your maiestyes fauour, or better
opinion of me. Nether on the other side am I affraide of those censures
of men whether of the partye I have abandoned, or of others which I
shall Incur by this alteration, howldinge yt contentment Innough to my
self, That god hath in mercye enlightened my mynde to see his sacred
trewth, with desire to serue [the paper here is mutilated].... And rest,
your maie[styes] most loyall and obedient servant W. Mownteagle."
_Addressed_, "To the Kinge his most excellent Maiestye."
From the absence of any allusion to the Powder Plot and its "discovery,"
it appears certain that this letter must have been written previously to
it.
On August 1st, 1609, Sir Wm. Waad wrote to Salisbury that the disorders
of Lord Monteagle's house were an offence to the country. At this period
he appears to have been suspected of concealing Catholic students from
St. Omers. [_Calendar of State Papers._]
APPENDIX I. (p. 140).
_Epitaph in St. Anne's, Aldersgate._ [Maitland, London (1756), p. 1065.]
"_Peter Heiwood_, younger son of _Peter Heiwood_, one of the Counsellors
of _Jamaica_, ... Great Grandson to _Peter Heiwood_ of _Heywood_ in the
County Palestine of _Lancaster_; who apprehended _Guy Faux_ with his
dark Lanthorn; and for his zealous prosecution of Papists, as Justice of
Peace, was stabbed in _Westminster-Hall_ by _John James_, a _Dominican_
Friar, An. Dom. 1640. Obiit _Novem. 2. 1701_.
Reader, if not a Papist bred
Upon such Ashes gently tread."
It is to be presumed that the person who died in 1701 is not the same
who was stabbed in 1640, or who discovered Guy Faukes in 1605.
The Dominican records contain no trace of any member of the Order named
John James, nor does so remarkable an event as the stabbing of a Justice
of Peace in Westminster Hall appear to be chronicled elsewhere.
Peter Heywood, J.P. for Westminster, was active as a magistrate as late
as December 15th, 1641. [_Calendar of State Papers._]
APPENDIX K. (p. 173).
_The Use of Torture._
THERE can be no doubt that torture was freely employed to extract
evidence from the conspirators and others who fell into the hands of the
government.
The Earl of Salisbury, in his letter to Favat, of December 4th, 1605,
clearly intimates that this was the case, when he complains "most of the
prisoners have wilfully forsworn that the priests knew anything in
particular, and obstinately refuse to be accusers of them, _yea, what
torture soever they be put to_."
About the middle of November, Lord Dunfermline wrote to Salisbury [_Dom.
James I._ xvi. 81] recommending that the prisoners should be confined
apart and in darkness, that they should be examined by torchlight, and
that the tortures should be slow and at intervals, as being thus most
effectual.
There is every reason to believe that the Jesuit lay-brother, Nicholas
Owen, _alias_ Littlejohn, actually died upon the rack. [_Vide_ Father
Gerard's _Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot_, p. 189.]
Finally we have the king's instructions as to Faukes [_Gunpowder Plot
Book_, No. 17]. "The gentler tortours are to be first usid unto him, _et
sic per gradus ad ima tenditur_,[458] and so God speede your goode
worke."[459] Guy's signature of November 9th is sufficient evidence that
it was none of the "gentler tortours" which he had endured.
In the violently Protestant account of the execution of the
traitors,[460] we read: "Last of all came the great Devil of all Faukes,
who should have put fire to the powder. His body being weak with torture
and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder, but with much ado,
by the help of the hangman, went high enough to brake his neck with the
fall."
APPENDIX L. (p. 227).
_Myths and Legends of the Powder Plot._
AROUND the Gunpowder Plot has gathered a mass of fabulous embellishment
too curious to be passed over in silence. This has chiefly attached
itself to Guy Faukes, who, on account of the desperate part allotted to
him has impressed the public mind far more than any of his associates,
and has come to be erroneously regarded as the moving spirit of the
enterprise.
One of the best authenticated facts regarding him is that when
apprehended he was booted and spurred for a journey, though it is
usually said that he was to have travelled by water.
There is, however, a strange story, told with much circumstantiality,
which gives an elaborate but incomprehensible account of a tragic
underplot in connection with him. This is related at considerable length
in a Latin hexameter poem, _Venatio Catholica_, published in 1609, in
the _History of the Popish Sham Plots_, and elsewhere. According to this
tangled tale the other conspirators wished both to get rid of Faukes,
when he had served their purpose, and to throw the suspicion of their
deed upon their enemies, the Puritans. To this end they devised a
notable scheme. A certain Puritan, named Pickering, a courtier, but a
godly man, foremost amongst his party, had a fine horse ("Bucephalum
egregium"). This, Robert Keyes, his brother-in-law, purchased or hired,
and placed at the service of Faukes for his escape. The steed was to
await him at a certain spot, but in a wood hard by assassins were to
lurk, who, when Guy appeared, should murder him, and having secured the
money with which he was furnished, should leave his mangled corpse
beside the Bucephalus, known as Mr. Pickering's. Thus Faukes would be
able to tell no tales, and--though it does not appear why--suspicion
would be sure to fall on the Puritan, and he would be proclaimed as the
author of the recent catastrophe.
"Hoc astu se posse rati convertere in hostes
Flagitii infamiam, causamque capessere vulgo
Qua Puritanos invisos reddere possent,
Ut tantae authores, tam immanis proditionis.
Cognito equo, et facta (pro more) indagine caedis,
Aulicus hic sceleris tanquam fabricator atrocis
Proclamandus erat, Falso (ne vera referre
Et socios sceleris funesti prodere possit)
Sublato."
Many curious circumstances have likewise been imported into the history,
and many places connected with it which appear to have no claim whatever
to such a distinction.
Thus we hear (_England's Warning Peece_) that the Jesuit Cresswell came
over from Spain for the occasion "to bear his part with the rest of his
society in a victorial song of thanksgiving." Also that on November 5th,
a large body of confederates assembled at Hampstead to see the House of
Parliament go up in the air.
In the _Gentleman's Magazine_, February, 1783, is a remarkable
description of a summer house, in a garden at Newton Hall, near
Kettering, Northamptonshire, in which the plotters used to meet and
conspire, the place then belonging to the Treshams; "and for greater
security, they placed a conspirator at each window, Guy Faukes, the arch
villain, standing in the doorway, to prevent anybody overhearing them."
According to a wide-spread belief Guy Faukes was a Spaniard.[461] He has
also been called a Londoner, and his name being altered to Vaux, has
been said to have a family connection with Vauxhall. He was in fact a
Yorkshireman of good family, though belonging to a younger branch of no
great estate. His father, Edward Faukes, was a notary at York, where he
held the office of registrar and advocate of the cathedral church. Guy
himself was an educated man, more than commonly well read. He is always
described in the process as "Guido Faukes, Gentleman."
Another most extraordinary example of an obvious myth, which was
nevertheless treated as sober history, is furnished by the absurd
statement that the astute and wily Jesuits not only contrived the Plot,
but published its details to the world long before its attempted
execution, in order to vindicate to themselves the credit of so glorious
a design. Thus Bishop Kennet, in a fifth of November sermon, preached at
St. Paul's before the Lord Mayor, in 1715, tells us:[462]
"It was a general surmise at least among the whole Order of Jesuits in
foreign parts: or else one of them could hardly have stated the case so
exactly some four or five years before it broke out. Father Del-Rio, in
a treatise printed An. 1600, put the case, as if he had already looked
into the Mine and Cellars, and had surveyed the barrels of powder in
them, and had heard the whole confessions of Faux and Catesby."
This "general surmise" does not appear to have been confined to the
Jesuits themselves. Another ingenious writer, nearly a century
earlier,[463] tells a wonderful story concerning the sermon of a
Dominican, preached in the same year, 1600, wherein it was related how
there was a special hell, beneath the other, for Jesuits, so thick and
fast did they arrive as to need extra accommodation. The preacher avowed
that he had, in his vision of the place, given warning to the demon in
charge of it, "to search them with speed, for fear that they had
conveyed hither some gunpowder with them, for they are very skilfull in
Mine-workes, and in blowing up of whole States and Parliament-houses,
and if they can blow you all up, then the Spanyards will come and take
your kingdom from you."
Another notable specimen of the way in which reason and probability were
cast to the winds is afforded by two letters written from Naples in
1610, one to King James and the other to Salisbury, by Sir Edwin
Rich,[464] who announced that Father Greenway--who of all the Jesuits
was said to be most clearly convicted as a traitor--intended to send to
the king a present of an embroidered satin doublet and hose, which,
being craftily poisoned, would be death to him if he put them on.
FOOTNOTES:
[458] "And so by degrees to the uttermost."
[459] These instructions furnish an interesting specimen of the king's
broad Scotch, _e.g._, "Quhat Gentlewomans Letter it was y^t was founde
upon him, and quhairfor doth she give him an other Name in it y^n he
giues to himself. If he was ever a papiste; and if so, quho brocht him
up in it. If otherwayes, hou was he convertid, quhair, quhan, and by
quhom."
The following passage is very characteristic of the writer:
"Nou last, ye remember of the crewellie villanouse pasquille y^t rayled
upon me for y^e name of Brittanie. If I remember richt it spake
something of harvest and prophecyed my destructi[=o] about y^t tyme. Ye
may think of y^s, for it is lyke to be by y^e Laboure of such a
desperate fellow as y^s is."
[460] _The Arraignment and execution of the late traitors_, etc., 1606.
[461] See, for instance, _London and the Kingdom_ (mainly from the
Guildhall Archives), by Reginald R. Sharpe, ii. 13.
[462] P. 9.
[463] Lewis Owen, _Unmasking of all popish Monks_, etc. (1628), p. 49.
[464] _Dom. James I._ lvii. 92-93, October 5th.
APPENDIX M.
_Sir William Waad's Memorial Inscriptions._
IN a room of the Queen's House in the Tower, in which the conspirators
are supposed to have been examined by the Lords of the Council, Sir
William Waad has left a series of inscriptions as memorials of the
events in which he played so large a part. Of these the most noteworthy
are the following:
I.
Jacobus Magnus, Magnae Britanniae
rex, pietate, justitia, prudentia, doctrina, fortitudine,
clementia, ceterisq. virtutibus regiis clariss'; Christianae
fidei, salutis publicae, pacis universalis propugnator, fautor
auctor acerrimus, augustiss', auspicatiss'.
Anna Regina Frederici 2. Danorum Regis invictiss' filia sereniss^a,
Henricus princeps, naturae ornamentis, doctrinae praesidiis, gratiae
Muneribus, instructiss', nobis et natus et a deo datus,
Carolus dux Eboracensis divina ad omnem virtutem indole,[465]
Elizabetha utriusq. soror Germana, utroque parente dignissima
Hos velut pupillam oculi tenellam
providus muni, procul impiorum
impetu alarum tuarum intrepidos
conde sub umbra.
[This is evidently intended for a Sapphic stanza, but the last two words
of v. 3 have been transposed, destroying the metre.]
II.
Robertus Cecil, Comes Sarisburiensis, summus et regis
Secretarius, et Angliae thesaurarius, clariss' patris
et de repub. meritissimi filius, in paterna munera
successor longe dignissimus;
Henricus, comes Northamptoniae, quinq. portuum praefectus et
privati sigilli custos, disertorum litteratissimus, litteratorum
disertissimus;
Carolus comes Nottingamiae, magnus Angliae admirallus
victoriosus;
Thomas Suffolciae comes, regis camerarius splendidissimus,
tres viri nobilissimi ex antiqua Howardorum familia, ducumq.
Norfolciae prosapia;
Edwardus Somersetus, comes Wigorniae, equis regiis praefectus
ornatissimus;
Carolus Blunt, comes Devoniae, Hyberniae prorex et pacificator,
Joannes Areskinus,[466] illustris Marriae comes, praecipuarum in
Scotia arcium praefectus;
Georgius Humius, Dunbari comes, Scotiae thesaurarius
prudentiss'
omnes illustriss' ordinis garteri milites;
Joannes Popham, miles, justiciarius Angliae capitalis,
et justitiae consultissimus:
Hi omnes illustrissimi viri, quorum nomina ad sempiternam eorum
memoriam posteritati consecrandam proxime supra ad lineam posita
sunt, ut regi a consiliis, ita ab eo delegati quaesitores, reis
singulis incredibili diligentia ac cura saepius appellatis, nec
minore solertia et dexteritate pertentatis eorum animis, eos suis
ipsorum inter se collatis responsionibus convictos, ad voluntariam
confessionem adegerunt: et latentem nefarie conjurationis seriem,
remq. omnem ut hactenus gesta et porro per eos gerenda esset, summa
fide erutam, aeterna cum laude sua, in lucem produxerunt, adeo ut
divina singulari providentia effectum sit, ut tam praesens, tamq.
f[oe]da tempestas, a regia majestate, liberisq. regiis, et omni
regno depulsa, in ipsos autores eorumq. socios redundarit.
III.
Conjuratorum Nomina, ad perpetuam ipsorum infamiam et tantae diritatis
detestationem sempiternam.
Thomas Winter Thomas Percy
Robert Winter Robert Catesby
_Monachi_ { Henry Garnet John Winter John Wright
_salutare_ { John Gerrard Guy Fawkes Christopher Wright
_Jesu_ { Oswald Tesmond Thomas Bates Francis Tresham
_nom[=e]_ { Ham[=o] Everard Digby, K. Thomas Abbington
_ementiti_ { Baldw[=i] Am' Rookewood Edmond Baineham, K.
John Graunt William Stanley, K.
Robert Keyes Hughe Owen.
Henry Morg[=a]
IV.
Besides the above there is a prolix description of the Plot, devised
against the best of sovereigns, "a Jesuitis Romanensibus, perfidiae
Catholicae et impietatis viperinae autoribus et assertoribus, aliisq.
ejusdem amentiae scelerisq. patratoribus et sociis susceptae, et in ipso
pestis derepente inferendae articulo (salutis anno 1605, mensis Novembris
die quinto), tam praeter spem quam supra fidem mirifice et divinitus
detectae."
There is, moreover, a sentence in Hebrew, with Waad's cipher beneath,
and a number of what seem to be meant for verses. The following lines
are evidently the Lieutenant's description of his own office:
"Custodis Custos sum, Carcer Carceris, arcis
Arx, atque Argu' Argus; sum speculae specula;
Sum vinclum in vinclis; compes cum compede, clav[=u]
Firmo haerens, teneo tentus, habens habeor.
Dum regi regnoq. salus stet firma quieta,
Splendida sim Compes Compedis usque licet."
This is considerably more metrical and intelligible than some of the
rest.
In 1613 Waad was dismissed from his post, one of the charges against him
being that he had embezzled the jewels of Arabella Stuart.[467]
In Theobald's _Memoirs of Sir Walter Raleigh_ (p. 16), Waad is described
as "the Lieutenant of the Tower, and Cecil's great Creature."
FOOTNOTES:
[464] _Dom. James I._ lvii. 92-93, October 5th.
[465] At the time of the Plot Charles was not quite five years old.
[466] Erskine.
[467] _Dom. James I._ lxxii. 129.
APPENDIX N.
THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. A.
_The draft, November 8th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 49).
*** Passages between square brackets have been cancelled. Those marked *
have been ticked off for omission.
_The Confession of Guy Fawkes, taken the 8 of November, 1605._
HE confesseth that a Practise in generall was first broken unto him,
agaynst his Majesty, for the Catholique cause, and not invented or
propounded by himself, and this was first propounded unto him about
Easter last was twelvemonth, beyond the seas in the Low countreyes, by
an English Lay-man, and that English man came over with him in his
company into England, and they tow and three more weare the first five
mencioned in the former examination. And they five resolving to do some
thinge for the Catholick cause,--a vowe being first taken by all of them
for secrecye,--one of the other three propounded to perform it with
Powder, and resolved that the place should be,--where this action should
be performed and justice done,--in or neere the place of the sitting of
the Parliament, wherein Religion had been uniustly suppressed. This
beeinge resolved the manner [of it] was as followeth.
THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. B.
_As signed by Faukes, November 17th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 101).
*** Square brackets indicate an erasure. Italics an addition or
substitution.
The [deposition] _declaration_ of Guy Fawkes prisonner in the Tower of
London _taken the 17 of Nov. 1605, acknowledged before the Lords
Commissioners._[468]
_A._ I confesse that a practise in generall was first broken unto me
against his Majestie, for releife of the Catholique cause, and not
invented or propounded by my self.
And this was first propounded unto me about Easter last was twelvemonth,
beyond the Seas, in the Low countries of the Archdukes obeysance by
Thomas Wynter, who came thereupon with me into England, and there wee
imparted our purpose to three other Englishmen more, namely Rob^t
Catesby, Tho^s Percy, and John Wright, who all five consulting together
of the meanes how to execute the same, and taking a vowe among our
selves for secresie Catesby propounded to have it performed by
Gunpowder, and by making a myne under the upper house of Parliament,
which place wee made choice of the rather,
[_A. The draft._]
First they hyred the Howse at Westminster of one Ferris,[469] and
havinge the howse they sought to make a myne under the upper howse of
Parliament, and they begann to make the myne in or about the xi of
December, and they five first entered into the worke, and soone after
toke an other unto them, havinge first sworne him and taken the
Sacrament, for secrecye. And when they came to the wall,--that was about
three yards thicke,--and found it a matter of great difficultie, they
tooke to them an other in like manner, with oath and Sacrament as afore
sayd. All which seaven, were gentlemen of name and bloode, and not any
man was employed in or about that action,--noe not so much as in
digginge and myning that was not a gentleman. And having wrought to the
wall before Christmas, they reasted untill after the holydayes, and the
day before Christmas,--having a masse of earth that came out of the
myne,--they carryed it into the Garden of the said Howse, and after
Christmas they wrought on the wall till Candlemas, and wrought the wall
half through, and sayeth that all the tyme while the others wrought he
stood as Sentynell to descrie any man that came neere, and when any man
came neere to the place, uppon warninge given by him they rested untill
they had notyce to proceed from hym, and sayeth that they seaven all lay
in the Howse, and had shott and powder, and they all resolved to dye in
that place before they yeilded or weare taken.
[_B. The Confession as signed._]
because Religion having been unjustly suppressed there, it was fittest
that Justice and punishment should be executed there.
_B._ This being resolved amongst us, Thomas Percy hired a howse at
Westminster for that purpose, neare adjoyning the Parl^t howse, and
there wee beganne to make a myne about the xi of December 1604. The fyve
that entered into the woorck were Thomas Percye, Robert Catesby, Thomas
Wynter, John Wright, and my self, and soon after we tooke another unto
us, Christopher Wright, having sworn him also, and taken the Sacrament
for secrecie.
_C._ When wee came to the verie foundation of the Wall of the house,
which was about 3 yeards thick, and found it a matter of great
difficultie, we took to us another gentleman Robert [Wynter] _Keys_[470]
in like manner with our oathe and Sacrament as aforesaid.
* * * * *
_D._ It was about Christmas when wee brought our myne unto the Wall, and
about Candlemas we had wrought the Wall half through. And whilst they
were a working, I stood as sentinell, to descrie any man that came
neare, whereof I gave them warning, and so they ceased untill I gave
them notice agayne to proceede. All wee seaven lay in the house, and had
shott and powder, being resolved to dye in that place before we should
yeild or be taken.
[_A. The draft._]
And as they weare workinge, they heard a rushinge in the cellar which
grew by _one_[471] Brights selling of his coles whereuppon this
Examinant, fearinge they had been discovered, went into the cellar and
viewed the cellar, and perceivinge the commoditye thereof for their
purposs, and understandinge how it would be letten his maister, M^r
Percy, hyred the Cellar for a yeare, for 4 pounds rent. And confesseth
that after Christmas 20^{ty} barrells of Powder weare brought by
themselves to a Howse which they had on the Banksyde in Hampers, and
from that Howse removed the powder to the sayd Howse, neere the upper
Howse of Parliament. And presently upon hyringe the cellar, they
themselfs removed the powder into the cellar, and couvered the same with
faggots which they had before layd into the sellar.
After, about Easter, he went into the Low Countryes,--as he before hath
declared in his former examination,--and that the trew purpos of his
goinge over was least beinge a dangerous man he should be known and
suspected, and in the meane tyme he left the key [of the cellar] with
M^r Percye, whoe in his absence caused more Billetts to be layd into the
Cellar, as in his former examination he confessed, and retourned about
the end of August or the beginninge of September, and went agayne to the
sayd howse, nere to the sayd cellar, and received the key of the cellar
agayne of one of the five. And then they brought in five or six barrells
of powder more into the cellar, which all soe they couvered with
billetts, saving fower little barrells covered with ffaggots, and then
this examinant went into the Country about the end of September.
[_B. The Confession as signed._]
_E._ As they were working upon the wall, they heard a rushing in a
cellar of removing of coles; whereupon wee feared wee had been
discovered, and they sent me to go to the cellar, who fynding that the
coles were a selling, and that the Cellar was to be lett, viewing the
commoditye thereof for our purpose, Percy went and hired the same for
yearly Rent.
Wee had before this provyded and brought into the house 20 barrells of
Powder, which wee removed into the Cellar, and covered the same with
billets and fagots, which we provided for that purpose.
* * * * *
_F._ About Easter, the Parliament being proroged tyll October next, wee
dispersed our selfs and I retired into the Low countryes, _by advice and
direction of the rest, as well to acquaint Owen with the particulars of
the plot, as also_[472] lest by my longer staye I might have grown
suspicious, and so have come in question.
In the meane tyme Percy, having the key of the Cellar, layd in more
powder and wood into it.
I returned about the beginning of September next and then receyving the
key againe of Percy, we brought in more powder and billets to cover the
same againe.
[_A. The draft._]
* It appeareth the powder was in the cellar, placed as it was found the
5 of November, when the Lords came to proroge the Parliament, and sayeth
that he returned agayne to the sayd Howse neare the cellar on Wednesday
the 30 of October.
[He confesseth he was at the Erle of Montgomeryes marriage, but as he
sayeth with noe intention of evill, havinge a sword about him, and was
very neere to his Majesty and the Lords there present.]
Forasmuch as they knew not well how they should come by the person of
the Duke Charles, beeinge neere London, where they had no forces,--if he
had not been all soe blowne upp,--He confesseth that it was resolved
amonge them, that the same day that this detestable act should have been
performed, the same day should other of their confederacye have
surprised the person of the Lady Elizabeth, and presently have
proclaimed her queen [to which purpose a Proclamation was drawne, as
well to avowe and justify the Action, as to have protested against the
Union, and in no sort to have meddeled with Religion therein. And would
have protested all soe agaynst all strangers] and this proclamation
should have been made in the name of the Lady Elizabeth.
* Beinge demanded why they did not surprise the Kinges person and draw
him to the effectinge of their purpose, sayeth that soe many must have
been acquaynted with such an action as it could not have been kept
secrett.
He confesseth that if their purpose had taken effect untill they had
power enough they would not have avowed the deed to be theirs; but if
their power,--for their defence and safetye,--had been sufficient they
themselfes would have taken it upon them.
[_B. The Confession as signed._]
And so [I] went for a tyme into the country, till the 30 of October.
* * * * *
_G._ It was farther resolved amongst us that the same day that this
action should have been performed some other of our confederates should
have surprised the person of the Lady Elizabeth the Kings eldest
daughter, who was kept in Warwickshire at the Lo. Harringtons house, and
presently have proclaimed her for Queene, having a project of a
Proclamation ready for the purpose, wherein we made no mention of
altering of Religion,----
* * * * *
---- nor would have avowed the deed to be ours untill we should have had
power enough to make our partie good, and then we would have avowed
both.
[_A. The draft._]
* They meant all soe to have sent for the Prisoners in the Tower to have
come to them, of whom particularly they had some consultation.
* He confesseth that the place of Rendez-vous was in Warwickshire, and
that armour was sent thither, but the particuler thereof he knowes not.
He confesseth that they had consultation for the takinge of the Lady
Marye into their possession, but knew not how to come by her.
And confesseth that provision was made by some of the conspiracye of
some armour of proofe this last Summer for this Action.
* He confesseth that the powder was bought of the common Purse of the
Confederates.
L. Admyrall }
L. Chamberlayne }
Erle of Devonshire } attended by M^r
Erle of Northampton } Attorney generall.
Erle of Salisbury }
Erle of Marr }
L. cheif Justice }
[_Endorsed_] Examination of Guy Fauks, Nov^r 8th, 1605.
[_B. The Confession as signed._]
_H._ Concerning Duke Charles, the Kings second son, we hadd sundrie
consultations how to sease on his person, but because wee found no
meanes how to compasse it,--the Duke being kept near London,--where we
had not forces enough, wee resolved to serve ourselves with the Lady
Elizabeth.
* * * * *
_J._ The names of other principall persons that were made privie
afterwards to this horrible conspiracie.
[_Signed_] GUIDO FAUKES.
Everard Digby, Knight
Ambrose Ruckwood
Francis Tresham
John Grant
Robert [Keys] _Wynter_
[_Witnessed_] Edw. Coke W. Waad.
[_Endorsed_] Fawkes his [deposition] _declaration 17 Nov.
1605_.[473]
FOOTNOTES:
[468] Alterations and additions (in italics) made by Sir Edward Coke.
[469] This name has seemingly been tampered with.
[470] Changed by Cecil; but on November 14th, writing to Edmondes, he
included Keyes amongst those that "wrought not in the myne," and R.
Winter amongst those who did.
[471] Interlined.
[472] The words italicised are added in the published version.
[473] Words in italics added by Coke.
INDEX.
Abbot, Robert, Bishop of Salisbury, his version of the missing
confessions of Faukes, 192 _seq._
Acton, Robert, 113.
Alabaster, Thomas, a priest in government employ, 204 _note_.
Andrew, William, servant to Sir E. Digby, evidence of, 78 _note_.
_Annals of England_, cited, 48.
_Answere to Scandalous papers_ (Cecil's manifesto), 44, 219 _seq._
Babington's Plot, 14.
Baldwin, Father William, S.J.; allegations against him, 185, 187
_seq._; which are not substantiated, 195; correspondence with Father
Schondonck, 201, 222.
Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, 46, 147.
Barlow, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln, 62, 70 _note_.
Barnes, a government agent, 112.
Bartlett, George, servant to Catesby, his evidence reported, 160.
Bates, Thomas, servant to Catesby, his introduction to the
Conspiracy, 3, 178; his alleged evidence against Greenway, 178-183;
trial and execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.
Batty, Matthew, evidence regarding Monteagle, 78 _note_.
"Blackfriars Downfall," the, 242.
Blount, Father Richard, S.J., on government intelligence, 77; on
Suffolk's proposal of toleration, 224; on Cecil's "new stratagem,"
224, 225.
Brayley and Britton (_Palace of Westminster_), 79 _note_.
Brewer, Rev. John Sherren, on the fate of Parry, the conspirator,
14; on government devices, 15; on Cecil's knowledge of the Plot, 48;
on the Monteagle letter, 117.
Bromley, Sir Henry, Sheriff of Worcestershire, 167 _note_.
Buck, Mr., alleged warning given to, 51 _note_, 106.
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 46.
"Bye," the, 15 _note_.
Camden, William, the historian, 36 _note_.
Capon, William, on the old Palace of Westminster, 79, 86; on traces
of the mine, 87.
Carleton, Dudley, afterwards Viscount Dorchester, patronized by
Cecil, 62; assists Percy to hire the house at Westminster, 61;
reports the French version of the Plot, 140; and its contradiction,
141; his mysterious connection with the Conspiracy, 150 _note_; his
opinion of Percy, 150.
Castlemaine, Earl of (Roger Palmer), on State plots, 14, 48; on
Osborne's qualifications as an historian, 44 _note_; on the fate of
decoy ducks, 152.
Carte, Thomas (_General History of England_), 46.
Carey, ----, evidence regarding Percy, 150.
Catesby, Robert, a ringleader in the Conspiracy, 9, 64; his
character and antecedents, 35 _seq._; persuades his associates not
to reveal their project to priests, 179; undertakes to proclaim the
new sovereign, 83; his death, 4, 152 _seq._; suspicions concerning
him, 156, 160. _See also_ Conspirators.
Catholics, their numbers, 28; their condition under Elizabeth, 29;
their hopes from James, 31, 33, 247, 248; his promises to them, 29;
they welcome his accession, _ibid_, 34; temporary relief at his
hands, _ibid_; their consequent increase, 28, 30; Cecil's hostility,
28, 30, 47, 48, 51, 105; attempt to charge them with the Plot, 4-6,
107, 108; legislation against them on account of it, 212 _seq._; its
lasting effects in their regard, 209, 225.
Cecil, Robert, first Earl of Salisbury, his character, 19 _seq._;
dignities conferred by James I., 19 _note_; and nicknames, 19
_note_; his unpopularity, 21 _seq._; difficulties and dangers of his
position, 26 _seq._; in the pay of Spain, 21; and probably of
France, 22 _note_; his secret correspondence with King James, 21;
his intrigues against Northumberland and Raleigh, 26, 198, 216;
hostility to the Catholics, 27, 95, 105; anxiety on account of the
king's attitude, 28; and dealings with Pope Clement VIII., 104;
endeavours to commit James to a policy of intolerance, 105; his
political methods, 44, 111; employs the services of forgers, 112
_note_, 203; his knowledge of the Plot, 94 _seq._; alleged secret
dealings with Percy, 15; Tresham, 158; and Catesby, 160; contradicts
himself concerning the "discovery," 123 _seq._; his inexplicable
delay in making it, 132; and conduct afterwards, 137; was not taken
by surprise, 210; at once turns the Plot to his advantage, 213; his
determination to incriminate priests, 4 _seq._, 130; advantages
reaped by him, 30, 213 _seq._; his Manifesto, 218 _seq._; suspected
of having originated or manipulated the Conspiracy, 43 _seq._;
alleged attempt to float a second Plot, 225.
Cecil, Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, 19 _note_, 160 _note_.
Cecil, William, second Earl of Salisbury, his testimony reported,
160.
Cecil, William, a priest in government employ, 45 _note_.
"Cellar," the, its situation and character, 58, 79 _note_; hired by
the conspirators, 69 _seq._; problems concerning it, 87 _seq._; its
after history, 137; accompanies the migrations of the House of
Lords, 80 _note_.
Challoner, Sir Thomas, information addressed to, 94, 95.
Chamberlain, John, M.P., on Cecil's death and character, 23, 24;
account of the "discovery," 128; on the King's lucky day, 231; on
Percy's character, 150.
Charles, Duke of York, afterwards Charles I.; plans of the
conspirators regarding him, 81 _seq._
Chichester, Sir Arthur, Deputy in Ireland, 4, 108, 124.
Coal, Father Greenway's description of, 71 _note_.
Cobham, eighth Lord (Henry Brooke), his charge of forgery against
Waad, 202.
Cobham, ninth Lord (William Brooke), his evidence reported, 45.
Coke, Sir Edward, Attorney-General, his falsification of evidence,
200; Cecil's instructions to him, 116 _note_; his assertions, 85,
88; interrogatories prepared by him, 176; his humour, 63 _note_;
proofs against Owen, 190; witnesses Thomas Winter's declaration,
169; and that of Faukes, 172; his treatment of Raleigh and
Northumberland, 217.
Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice, on the English penal laws, 29 _note_.
Conspirators, the, list of, 2, 3; their character and antecedents,
35-41; their enrolment, 9, 64, 252; their plans and proceedings,
9-11, 60 _seq._; mining operations, 10, 63; incredibility of the
story, 65 _seq._, 76 _seq._, 141; they hire the "cellar," 69 _seq._;
purchase and store gunpowder, 78; difficulties concerning it, 78,
132, 134-137; further designs, 11, 80-82; alarmed by the
prorogation, 114, 230; flight and attempted rebellion, 2; their
fate, 4-6.
Cope, Sir Walter, on the character of Cecil, 27 _note_.
Cornwallis, Sir Charles, English Ambassador in Spain, on the
character of the conspirators, 40; letter to Father Cresswell, 195;
on the Catholic design to murder Cecil, 221 _note_.
Cresswell, Father Joseph, S.J., allegations concerning him, 195;
Cornwallis' letter to him, _ibid_.
Dacre, Francis, titular Lord, efforts to connect him with the Plot,
177.
Darnley, Henry, Lord, father of James I., the victim of a gunpowder
plot, 37, 50.
Davenport, Father Christopher, O.P. (Francis a S. Clara), 145
_note_.
Davies, Joseph, a government "discoverer," 94.
De Beaumont, M., French Ambassador, 119 _note_.
De la Boderie, M., French Ambassador, on Cecil's insecurity, 26; on
the ruin of Northumberland, 23.
Del-Rio, Father Martin, S.J., said to have described the Plot A.D.
1600, 263.
Derby, Earl of (William Stanley), attempt to incriminate him, 198.
De Ros, Lord, on Faukes' plan of escape, 144 _note_.
Devonshire, Earl of (Charles Blount), 168 _note_, 170 _note_, 211,
266.
Digby, Sir Everard, joins the Conspiracy, 10, 253; difficulties and
contradictions regarding him, 79 _note_, 253; his letter to
Salisbury, 33, 245; part assigned to him, 78 _note_; his fate, 6.
_See also_ Conspirators.
Digby, Sir John, English Ambassador in Spain, 22 _note_.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, his evidence reported, 160.
Digby, Sir Robert, 38 _note_.
Dixon, Hepworth (_Her Majesty's Tower_), on government intelligence,
111 _note_.
Dodd, Rev. Charles, on the origin of the Plot, 18, 51.
Dorset, Earl of (Thomas Sackville), his esteem for Cecil, 21.
Dunbar, Earl of (George Hume), 168 _note_, 172, 266.
Dunfermline, Earl of (Alexander Seaton), on the effective use of
torture, 259.
Dunsmoor Heath, projected hunting match on, 11.
Edmondes, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Brussels, account of the
"discovery" sent to him, 108, 124; version of Faukes' confession
sent to him, 186; proofs against Owen sent to him, 190, 191; his
negotiations with the archdukes, 186 _seq._; letters of, 102, 187,
188, 189; letters to, 85, 106, 113, 154, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190.
Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of James I., designs of the
conspirators regarding her, 81.
_England's Warning Peece_, 195, 262.
_English Protestants' Plea_, 40, 51, 108 _note_, 195 _note_.
Eudaemon-Joannes, Father Andrew, S.J., 204.
Faukes, Guy or Guido, _alias_ John Johnson, his position and
character, 39, 262; his Spanish mission, 36; introduced to the
Conspiracy, 9, 64; passes as Percy's servant, 71, 77; keeps guard
while the others work, 66; discovers the "cellar," 70; has charge of
the premises, 77, 89, 142; visits Flanders, 91, 162; appointed to
fire the powder, 1; plans for his escape, 144; arrest, 123-128;
published confession, 169 _seq._, 268 _seq._; evidence falsified,
200; missing depositions, 191; tortured, 172, 200, 260; trial and
execution, 6, 260; fables respecting him, 261. _See also_
Conspirators.
Favat, Mr., Cecil's letter to, 5, 182.
Ferrers, Henry, sub-lets the house at Westminster to Percy, 61.
Fifth of November, a propitious day for the "discovery," 231; the
day solemnized, 5.
Floyde, Griffith, a government spy, 49.
French historians on the Plot, 141 _note_.
French official accounts of the Plot, 140, 141.
Fuller, Mr., M.P., 132 _note_.
Fuller, Thomas (_Church History of Britain_), 46, 225.
Fulman MSS., 169.
Gardiner, Professor Samuel Rawson, his favourable estimate of
Cecil's character, 20; on the Spanish pension, 22 _note_; repudiates
imputations against the government, 18; on the conspirators' plans,
82; on the Monteagle letter, 117; on the king's interpretation, 132
_note_; on the desire to incriminate priests, 4 _note_.
Garnet, Father Henry, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator,
5; his capture, 7, 166; lack of evidence, 7; trial and execution,
_ibid_.; his account of the conspirators' proceedings, 208; his
evidence against Catesby, 157; on the accession of James, 29 _note_.
_Gentleman's Magazine_, 52 _note_, 262.
Gerard, Col. John, 160 _note_.
Gerard, Father John, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator, 5;
exonerated by historians, 237; his history of the Plot, 205; his
experiences in the Tower, 202; on the persecution of Catholics, 32;
opinion of the "discovery," 49; and of the official narrative, 129;
on the death of Percy and Catesby, 156 _note_.
Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop of Gloucester, on the origin of the
Conspiracy, 44; on the king's promises to Catholics, 29 _note_; on
the persecution of Catholics, 32; on the "discovery," 134 _note_; on
the death of Whynniard, 92 _note_; on Percy's intercourse with
Cecil, 151; on the death of Percy and Catesby, 154; his religious
views, 145 _note_.
Gowrie Conspiracy, the, 231, 232.
"Great Horses," 2 _note_.
Grange, Justice E., 148 _note_.
Grant, John, 37. _See also_ Conspirators.
Green, Mrs. Everett, wrongly describes Owen as a Jesuit, 185 _note_.
Green, John Richard (_History of the English People_), 30.
Greenway, _alias_ Tesimond, Father Oswald, S.J., proclaimed as a
principal conspirator, 5; Bates' alleged evidence against him,
178-183; his history of the Plot, 206; opinion of the official
narrative, 134; on the effects of an explosion, 133; on government
despatches concerning Percy, 155; his visit to the rebels at
Huddington, 206 _note_; fables respecting him, 264.
Gregory, Arthur, a forger employed by government, 203.
Grene, Father Martin, S.J., notes on the Plot, 45.
Gunpowder, amount procured by the conspirators, 78; difficulties
concerning it, 132 _seq._
Hagley Hall, R. Winter and S. Littleton captured there, 4.
Hallam, Henry (_Constitutional History_), repudiates imputations
against the government, 18; on Father Garnet's capture, _ibid_.,
_note_; on King James's title to the crown, 34.
Harington, Sir John, 4.
Hawarde, John (_Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata_), 165
_note_.
Heiwood, or Heywood, Peter, 139 _note_, 258.
Hendlip House (Thomas Abbington's), the scene of Father Garnet's
capture, 18 _note_, 166 _note_.
Henry, Prince of Wales, anticipations concerning him, 33; the
conspirators' plans in his regard, 80, 81, 176.
Herring, Francis (_Pietas Pontificia_), 27 _note_, 143 _note_.
Higgons, Bevil (_English History_), 47.
Hoby, Sir Edward, on the death of Percy, 154.
Holbeche House (Stephen Littleton's), the conspirators there slain
or captured, 2, 4.
House of Lords, its situation and subsequent migrations, 55 _seq._;
never represented in pictures of the Plot, 228.
House, Percy's, at Westminster, its position, 60, 251; circumstances
of the bargain for it, 60; difficulties concerning it, 62, 64, 67,
88.
Howes, Edmund (continuation of Stowe's _Chronicle_), 127.
Huddington House (Robert Winter's), 206 _note_.
Ichrup, Thomas, name given to Faukes, 149, 244.
Inglefield, Sir Francis, 249.
James I., King of Great Britain, his claim to the succession, 34;
circumstances of his accession, 34, 35; hopes of the Catholics, 28;
who support his cause, 34; his policy at first favourable to them,
29; soon reversed, 31; his dealings with Pope Clement VIII., 104;
his supposed interpretation of the letter, 128, 131; Tuesday his
lucky day, 230; his speech to Parliament, 211; accuses Catholics in
general and the Pope, 4; suspected of previous knowledge of the
Plot, 46; anxiety for evidence against priests, 182; letter to the
Archdukes, 187 _note_; alleged subsequent opinion of the Plot, 45;
instructions for the torture of Faukes, 259; his Scotch dialect, 260
_note_; gives his royal word against Owen and Baldwin, 187; his
policy permanently affected, 209.
James, John, a supposed Dominican, 139 _note_, 258.
Jardine, David, on the character of the official narrative, 129,
163; on the falsification of evidence, 199; on the Monteagle letter,
117; on the king's interpretation, 132 _note_; on the established
facts of the case, 12; not perfectly impartial, 161, 207; on the
results of the Plot, 213.
Jessopp, Augustus, D.D., on the value of money, 36 _note_, 117
_note_; on Father Gerard's innocence, 207.
Jesuits, efforts to incriminate, 177 _note_; Cecil on their
"insolencies," 106.
Kennet, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 45 _note_, 46, 263.
Keyes, Robert, contradictions respecting him, 84 _note_, 183. _See
also_ Conspirators.
"King's Book," the, its character, 108; Cecil's description of it,
219, 220.
Knyvet, or Knevet, Sir Thomas, leads the party which captures
Faukes, 124 _seq._; receives a peerage, 139 _note_; the Countess of
Suffolk his sister, 224 _note_.
Lake, Sir Thomas, 19, 232.
Lenthal, William, Speaker of the Long Parliament, his evidence
reported, 160.
Lindsay, Sir James, conveys messages between King James and Pope
Clement VIII., 104.
Lingard, John, D.D., 68 _note_, 231.
Littleton, Humphrey, 167 _note_.
Littleton, Stephen, 2, 4, 156.
Lodge, Edmund, F.S.A. (_Illustrations of British History_), 98.
Lopez' Plot, 14.
"Main," the, 15 _note_, 26, 216.
Mar, Earl of (John Erskine), 168 _note_, 172, 266.
Mary, Princess, daughter of James I., 81, 176.
Milton, poems on the Plot, 226.
Mine, the, story told respecting it, 63 _seq._; difficulties
respecting it, 84 _seq._
_Mischeefe's Mystery_, 72, 115, 121, 123, 153 _note_, 159.
Money, value of, 36 _note_, 117 _note_; amount raised by
conspirators, 39.
Monteagle, Lord (William Parker), his character and antecedents,
118; relations with the king and court, 34, 119; letter to the king,
119, 256; connection with the conspirators, 118; communicates the
warning letter to Cecil, 120-123, 160; attends parliament on the day
of the "discovery," 137 _note_; devices of the government on his
behalf, 116; rewards conferred, 116; subsequent conduct, 258.
Moore, Sir Francis, his evidence reported, 151.
Moore, Sir Jonas, 138.
More, Father Henry, S.J., 49.
Morgan, Harry, 81 _note_.
Morgan, Thomas, 157 _note_, 193 _note_.
Naunton, Sir Robert, on Cecil's character, 19.
Northampton, Earl of (Henry Howard), a nominal Catholic promoted by
King James, 29; Cecil's agent in his secret correspondence, 26
_note_; on Cecil's death, 23; on the history of the "cellar," 58
_note_; not admitted to all Cecil's secrets, 112.
Northumberland, Earl of (Henry Percy), a rival of Cecil's, 26; who
secretly traduces him, 26 _note_, 215, 216; the Plot turned to his
ruin, 26, 107, 216-218; which is attributed to Cecil, 26 _note_,
218, his sentiments in return, 218.
Nottingham, Earl of, Lord Admiral (Charles Howard), 170 _note_,
265.
Oates, Titus, 46, 138.
Oath taken by the conspirators, 9.
Oldcorne, _alias_ Hall, Father Edward, S.J., captured along with
Garnet, 7; never accused of complicity _ib._; Catholic demonstration
at his execution, 28 _note_; tortured, 173.
Oldmixon (_Royal House of Stuart_), 25 _note_, 46.
Osborne, Francis, on Cecil's unpopularity, 25; on the "discovery,"
44; on the 5th of August celebration, 232 _note_; on Northumberland
and Cecil, 218; his qualifications as an historian, 44.
Owen, Captain Hugh, falsely described as a Jesuit, 173 _note_, 185
_note_; particularly obnoxious to the government, 173, 185; evidence
fabricated against him, 174; Cecil's instruction respecting him, 116
_note_; efforts made to secure him, 185 _seq._; his intercourse with
Phelippes, 112, 185 _note_.
Owen, Lewis, 263.
Paris, Henry, 162.
Parliament, its successive adjournments, 67, 70 _note_, 91, 114,
230; meets on the day of the "discovery," 136; activity against
Catholics, 5, 212 _seq._
Parry, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Paris, instructions given
to, 28 _note_; intelligence supplied by, 98, 101, 102; account of
the discovery furnished to, 126 _seq._
Parry, Dr. William, his Plot, 14, 153.
Parsons, Father Robert, S.J., letters to, 29 _note_, 77, 223; his
views as to the succession, 249; on Walsingham's "spyery," 77.
Percy, Sir Charles, 192 _note_.
Percy, Thomas, one of the first and principal conspirators, 9, 64;
his antecedents, 36, 37, 148; house hired by him, 60; and "cellar,"
75; strange conduct in both transactions, 88; conduct afterwards,
88, 91; undertakes to seize Duke Charles or Princess Elizabeth, 82;
his death, 4, 152 _seq_; profession of religious zeal, 148; bigamy,
_ibid_; Catholics suspicious of him, 150; alleged secret dealings
with Cecil, 151; the case against him, 148-156. _See also_
Conspirators.
Phelippes, Thomas, the "decipherer," employed by the government,
111; their devices against him, 112; correspondence with Hugh Owen,
185 _note_.
Pickering, Mr., and his horse, 261. _Plain and Rational Account of
the Catholick Faith_, 49.
Plots under Elizabeth and James I., 14, 15, 153, 157 _note_, 193
_note_; their common feature, 13.
_Polititian's Catechism_, 51 _note_, 106, 137 _note_.
Pope Clement VIII., interchanges communications with James I., 104.
Pope Paul V., represented as an accomplice in the Plot, 5, 239.
Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 170 _note_, 197, 266.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, Cecil's enmity towards him, 26 _note_, 48
_note_, 198; his ruin, 26, 216; attempt to implicate him in the
Powder Plot, 197, 198.
Ratcliffe, Ralph, a government spy, 95, 96, 191.
Rich, Sir Edwin, 264.
Richardot, President, 189.
Rogers, Professor Thorold, on the value of money, 117 _note_; on
James's title to the throne, 34.
Rokewood, Ambrose, 179 _note_. _See also_ Conspirators.
Salisbury, first Earl of. _See_ Cecil, Robert.
Salisbury, second Earl of. _See_ Cecil, William.
Sanderson, Sir William, 46.
Schondonck, Father Giles, S. J., Rector of St. Omers, on the
innocence of the Jesuits, 201; on Cecil's manifesto, 222.
Scott, Sir Walter, 132 _note_.
Shakespeare, never alludes to the Plot, 226 _note_.
Sharpe, Dr. R. R., 262 _note_.
Shepherd, John, evidence of, 251.
Smith, John Thomas (_Antiquities of Westminster_), 58 _note_, 79
_note_, 89 _note_.
Soane, Sir John, 238.
Southwaick, or Southwell, a government spy, 99-102.
Speed, John (_Historie_), 62, 63 _note_.
Squires, Edward, his plot, 14.
Stanley, Sir William, 185, 192 _note_.
Strange, Father Thomas, S. J., 96 _note_.
Streete, John, pensioned for killing Percy and Catesby, 155.
Strype, John (_Annals_), 28 _note_.
Suffolk, Earl of, Lord Chamberlain (Thomas Howard), his venality,
224.
Talbot, John, of Grafton, 38 _note_.
Talbot, Peter, Archbishop of Dublin. _See Polititian's Catechism._
Theobald, Lewis, 267.
Topcliffe, Richard, priest-hunter, 202.
Torture, use of, 4, 5, 172, 173, 201 _note_, 259, 260.
Tresham, Francis, enlisted in the enterprise, 10, 252 _seq_.; his
previous record, 35, 36; his action on behalf of King James, 34;
suspected of writing the warning letter, 147, 158; and of collusion
with Cecil, _ibid._; his conduct after the "discovery," 3, 158; his
death in the Tower, 6 _note_, 158. _See also_ Conspirators.
Tresham, Sir Thomas, proclaims King James, 34; summoned to Court,
248.
_True and Perfect Relation_, character of the narrative, 43, 163.
Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 112.
Usher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, his evidence reported, 45.
_Venatio Catholica_, 261.
_Vetusta Monumenta_, 79, 86.
Villeroy, M., on Cecil's duplicity, 23.
"Vinegar House," 60 _note_.
Vowell, Peter, evidence reported, 160.
Waad, Sir William, lieutenant of the Tower, charged by Cobham with
forgery of evidence, 202; dismissed from his post, 203 _note_, 267;
his inscriptions in the Tower, 264, 267; letters to Cecil, 168, 258.
Walsh, Sir Richard, sheriff of Worcestershire, 4, 154 _note_.
Ward, Samuel, preacher and artist, 239.
Webb, John, evidence reported, 160.
Weldon, Sir Anthony, on Cecil's unpopularity, 25.
Welwood, James (_Memoirs_), 46.
Westmoreland, titular Earl of (Henry Neville), attempt to implicate
him, 197.
Whynniard, Mr., landlord of Percy's house, 61 _note_, 89; his sudden
death, 92 _note_.
Whynniard, Mrs., evidence of, 61, 67, 72, 88, 142.
Willaston, William, intelligence supplied by, 99.
Wimbledon, Viscount (Edward Cecil), his evidence reported, 160.
Windsor, Lord, his house plundered by the conspirators, 2.
Winter, Robert, introduced to the conspiracy, 10; captured at
Hagley, 4; evidences of foul play in his regard, 183, 184; trial and
execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.
Winter, Thomas, one of the first conspirators, 9, 64; character, 35;
Spanish mission, 36, 118; brings Faukes from Flanders, 9; attends
the prorogation, Oct. 3rd, 74 _note_, 230; captured at Holbeche, 4;
his published confession, 167 _seq._; probably tortured, 169; trial
and execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.
Wood, Anthony a, notes addressed to, 159.
Worcester, Earl of (Edward Somerset), 168 _note_, 266.
Wotton, Sir Henry, 160.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 138.
Wright, Christopher, his introduction to the Conspiracy, 9, 64;
character, 35, 37; previous employment in Spain, 36; killed at
Holbeche, 4, 152. _See also_ Conspirators.
Wright, Henry, his informations, 94, 95, 254.
Wright, John, one of the first conspirators, 9, 64; character, 35,
37; killed at Holbeche, 4, 152. _See also_ Conspirators.
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p 49: Inserted , into footnote 124; 'James I., lxxxi.'.
p 120: footnote 257: missing closing bracket; corrected.
p 154: inserted , into footnote 310; 'James I., i. 588'.
p 160: changed ' to " to match quote mark style, footnote 329.
p 194: footnote 396: 'Englands' changed to 'England's'.
p 248: added missing full-stop: 'give ease to Catholics'.
p 255: added opening double-quote marks to the passage entitled
'Application to the King.'
p 266: the oe ligature was represented as [oe]
p 268, 269: uncommon 'inverted asterism' topographic marks are used to
signify important notes on conventions used in the text; they have the
form of three asterixes arranged in a v-shape. For simplicity, they are
replaced with '***' in this document.
p 281: 'incrediblty' changed to 'incredibility', 'o' changed to 'of'.
End of Project Gutenberg's What was the Gunpowder Plot?, by John Gerard