E.g., by Mr. Talbot of Grafton, father-in-law of Robert Winter, who drove their envoys away with threats and reproaches (Jardine, Gunpowder Plot, p. 112), and by Sir Robert Digby, of Coleshill, cousin to Sir Everard, who assisted in taking prisoners. (R.O. Gunpowder Plot Book, 42.)
92
History, i. 263.
93
Gunpowder Plot, p. 151.
94
Ibid., p. 38.
95
Life of a Conspirator, by one of his Descendants, p. 150.
96
English Protestants' Plea and Petition for English Priests and Papists. The author of this book (published 1621) describes himself as a priest who has been for many years on the English mission. His title indicates that he draws his arguments from Protestant sources.
97
P. 56.
98
November 25th, 1605, Stowe MSS. 168, 61.
99
Gunpowder Plot Book, 129. Printed in Archæologia, xii. 202*.
100
R.O. Roman Transcripts (Bliss), No. 86, December 10th, 1605 (Italian).
101
Mr. Jardine writes (Criminal Trials, ii. p. 235), "The True and Perfect Relation … is certainly not deserving of the character which its title imports. It is not true, because many occurrences on the trial are wilfully misrepresented; and it is not perfect, because the whole evidence, and many facts and circumstances which must have happened, are omitted, and incidents are inserted which could not by possibility have taken place on the occasion. It is obviously a false and imperfect relation of the proceedings; a tale artfully garbled and misrepresented, like many others of the same age, to serve a State purpose, and intended and calculated to mislead the judgment of the world upon the facts of the case." Of the Discourse he speaks in similar terms. (Ibid., p. 4.)
102
R.O. Dom. James I. xix. 94. Printed by Jardine, Criminal Trials, ii. 120 (note).
103
Answere to certaine Scandalous Papers, scattered abroad under colour of a Catholic Admonition. (Published in January, 1605-6.)
104
Traditional Memoirs, 36. Of this writer Lord Castlemaine says, "He was born before this plot, and was also an inquisitive man, a frequenter of company, of a noted wit, of an excellent family, and as Protestant a one as any in the whole nation."
105
Court of King James (1839), i. 102.
106
Stonyhurst MSS., Anglia, v. 67.
107
E.g., in the Advocate of Conscience Liberty (1673), p. 225.
108
History of Mary Queen of Scots and James I., p. 334. Bishop Kennet, in his Fifth of November Sermon, 1715, boldly declares that Sanderson speaks not of Cecil the statesman, but of Cecil "a busy Romish priest" (and, he might have added, a paid government spy). The assertion is utterly and obviously false.
109
Memoirs, p. 22.
110
History of England, Royal House of Stuart, p. 27.
111
General History of England, iii. 757.
112
History of His Own Times, i. 11.
113
Church History, Book X. § 39.
114
Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, to the regall Monarchie and Civill Unity, p. 151.
115
A Short View of the English History, p. 296.
116
Note to Fuller's Church History, x. § 39, and to the Student's Hume.
117
Illustrations, iii. 172.
118
Parker and Co. This author says of Cecil and his rival Raleigh, "Both were unprincipled men, but Cecil was probably the worst. He is suspected not only of having contrived the strange plot in which Raleigh was involved, but of being privy to the proceedings of Catesby and his associates, though he suffered them to remain unmolested, in order to secure the forfeiture of their estates" (p. 338).
119
Criminal Trials, ii. 68.
120
History of England, i. 254, note.
121
Catholique Apology, p. 412.
122
Hist. Prov. Angl. S.J., p. 310.
123
Condition of Catholics under James I., p. 100.
124
R.O. Dom. James I., lxxxi. 70, August 29th, 1615.
125
A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholick Faith, Rouen, 1721, p. 197.
126
Certamen utriusque Ecclesiæ, James I.
127
The author of the English Protestants' Plea (1621) says: "Old stratagems and tragedies of Queene Elizabeth's time must needs be renewed and playde againe, to bring not only the Catholikes of England, but their holy religion into obloquy" (p. 56).
Peter Talbot, Bishop of Dublin, in the Polititian's Catechisme (1658) writes: "That Cecil was the contriver, or at least the fomenter of [the Plot,] was testified by one of his own domestick Gentlemen, who advertised a certain Catholike, by name Master Buck, two months before, of a wicked designe his Master had against Catholikes" (p. 94).
128
A writer, signing himself "Architect," in an article describing the old palace of Westminster (Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1800, p. 627), having occasion to mention the Gunpowder Plot, observes: "This Plot is now pretty well understood not to have been hatched by the Papists, but by an inveterate foe of the Catholicks of that day, the famous minister of James… All well-informed persons at present laugh at the whole of this business."
129
The name "old House of Lords" is somewhat ambiguous, being variously applicable to three different buildings:
(i.) That here described, which continued to be used till the Irish Union, a. d. 1800.
(ii.) The "Court of Requests," or "White Hall," used from 1800 till the fire of 1834.
(iii.) The "Painted Chamber," which, having been repaired after the said fire, became the place of assembly for the Lords, as did the Court of Requests for the Commons.
The original House of Lords was demolished in 1823 by Sir John Soane, who on its site erected his Royal Gallery. (See Brayley and Britton, History of the Palace of Westminster.)
130
The authority for this is the Earl of Northampton, who at Father Garnet's trial mentioned that it was so stated in ancient records. Remains of a buttery hatch in the south wall confirmed his assertion.
The foundations of the building were believed to date from the time of Edward the Confessor, and the style of architecture of the superstructure assigned it to the early part of the thirteenth century, as likewise the "Prince's Chamber."
131
Brayley and Britton, History of the Palace of Westminster, p. 421; J. T. Smith, Antiquities
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