So he himself always wrote it.
2
Some of these have been partially set forth in a series of six articles appearing in The Month, December 1894 – May, 1895.
3
So he himself always wrote it.
4
Also described as "Great Horses," or "Horses for the great Saddle."
5
"The great object of the Government now was to obtain evidence against the priests." – Gardiner, History of England, i. 267. Ed. 1883.
6
See his despatch in reply. Irish State Papers, vol. 217, 95. Cornwallis received Cecil's letter on November 22nd.
7
See Harington's account of the king's message, Nugæ Antiquæ, i. 374.
8
To Favat. (Copy) Brit. Mus. MSS. Add. 6178, fol. 625.
9
Statutes: Anno 3o Jacobi, c. 1.
10
This work was taken in hand by the Commons, when, in spite of the alarming circumstances of the time, they met on November 5th, and was carried on at every subsequent sitting. The Lords also met on the 5th, but transacted no business. Journals of Parliament.
11
Tresham had died in the Tower, December 22nd. Although he had not been tried, his remains were treated as those of a traitor, his head being cut off and fixed above the gates of Northampton (Dom. James I. xvii. 62.)
12
"That which remaineth is but this, to assure you that ere many daies you shall hear that Father Garnet … is layd open for a principall conspirator even in the particular Treason of the Powder." —To Sir Henry Bruncard, P.R.O. Ireland, vol. 218, March 3rd, 1605-6. Also (Calendar) Dom. James I. xix. 10.
13
In Lent, 1603-4. Easter fell that year on April 8th.
14
"About the middle of Easter Term." —Thomas Winter's declaration, of November 23rd, 1605.
15
"Keyes, about a month before Michaelmas." —Ibid. About Christopher Wright there is much confusion, Faukes (November 17th, 1605) implying that he was introduced before Christmas, and Thomas Winter (November 23rd, 1605) that it was about a fortnight after the following Candlemas, i. e., about the middle of February.
16
The form of this oath is thus given in the official account: "You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the Sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or 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." It is a singular circumstance that the form of this oath, which was repeated in official publications, with an emphasis itself inexplicable, occurs in only one of the conspirators' confessions, viz., the oft-quoted declaration of T. Winter, November 23rd, 1605. This – as we shall see, a most suspicious document – was one of the two selected for publication, on which the traditional history of the plot depends. Curiously enough, however, the oath, with sundry other matters, was omitted from the published version of the confession.
[Published in the "King's Book: " copy, or draft, for publication, in the Record Office: original at Hatfield. Copy of original Brit. Mus. Add. MSS., 6178, 75.]
17
T. Winter says: "Having upon a primer given each other the oath of secrecy, in a chamber where no other body was, we went after into the next room and heard mass, and received the blessed Sacrament upon the same." —Declaration, November 23rd, 1605.
18
Digby was enlisted "about Michaelmas, 1605;" Rokewood about a month before the 5th of November. Tresham gives October 14th as the date of his own initiation. Examination, November 13th, 1605.
19
This is clear from a comparison of Cecil's private letter to Cornwallis and others (Winwood, Memorials, ii. 170), with the official account published in the Discourse of the manner of the Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.
20
Criminal Trials, ii. 3.
21
History of England, i. 269 (1883).
22
"We had all been blowne up at a clapp, if God out of His Mercie and just Reuenge against so great an Abomination, had not destined it to be discovered, though very miraculously, even some twelve Houres before the matter should have been put in execution." —Cecil to Cornwallis, November 9th, 1605. Winwood, Memorials, ii. 170.
23
M. l'Abbé Destombes, La persécution en Angleterre sous le règne d'Elizabeth, p. 176.
24
Catholique Apology, third edition, p. 403.
25
Goodman's Court of King James, i. 121.
26
Mr. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography, sub nom.
27
Goodman's Court of King James, i. 121. Ed. J.S. Brewer.
28
Court of King James, p. 64.
29
Of this affair, – the "Bye" and the "Main," – Goodman says, "[This] I did ever think to be an old relic of the treasons in Q. Elizabeth's time, and that George Brooks was the contriver thereof, who being brother-in-law to the Secretary, and having great wit, small means, and a vast expense, did only try men's allegiance, and had an intent to betray one another, but were all taken napping and so involved in one net. This in effect appears by Brooks' confession; and certainly K. James … had no opinion of that treason, and therefore was pleased to pardon all save only Brooks and the priests." —Court of King James, i. 160.
30
A plain and rational account of the Catholick Faith,
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