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PRELUDE xxxv

Three movements against Government of James I. in the year of the
Gunpowder Treason Plot (1605) distinct though connected——(1)
General wave of insurrectionary feeling on part of Papists by
reason of penal laws of Queen Elizabeth——(2) Gunpowder Plot
devised by Robert Catesby——(3) Rebellion in Midlands under
leadership of Sir Everard Digby——Earl of Salisbury, his spies
and decoys, may have fomented first movement but not others——
Certainly not projectors of Gunpowder Plot——Traditional story
accepted in main outlines.

CHAPTER I. 1

Reasons given why subordinate conspirator, Francis Tresham, cannot
have “discovered” Plot——True principles laid down to guide mind
of Inquirer into _personnel_ of (1) Revealing Conspirator, (2)
Penman of Letter.

CHAPTER II. 4

A “division of labour” in beneficent work of “discovering” Plot——
Why?——Probabilities of case suggest at least three persons
engaged in “swinging round on its axis diabolical Plot”——Whom
Revealing conspirator would employ——Persons most likely.

CHAPTER III. 6

Who was Lord Mounteagle?——Ancestry——Father: Lord Morley——Title,
Mounteagle, derived through mother, Honourable Elizabeth
Stanley, heiress of William Stanley third Lord Mounteagle——
Mother akin to Howards through Leybournes of Westmoreland.