Chapter IV: 9

Lord Mounteagle receives Letter 26th October, 1605, between “six
and seven of the clock,” at Hoxton, near London——Opened by
Mounteagle——Read by a member of his household, Thomas Ward——Full
text of Letter given——27th October, Ward tells Thomas Winter, a
conspirator, that Letter had been received by Mounteagle——Had
been taken to Robert Cecil first Earl of Salisbury, Principal
Secretary of State——28th October, Winter repairs to White Webbs
by Enfield Chase, ten miles north of Westminster——Informs
Catesby that “game was up”——Catesby says “would see further as
yet”——Guy Fawkes sent from White Webbs to view cellar under
House of Lords——Finds all marks undisturbed——Thirty-six barrels
of gunpowder, wood, and coal all ready for fatal Fifth——Fawkes
returns at night safely——Thomas Winter meets (or is met by)
subordinate conspirator, Christopher Wright——Fawkes captured
early on Tuesday, November 5th——Christopher Wright announces to
Thomas Winter Fawkes’ capture.

CHAPTER V. 14

In reign of Queen Elizabeth and early part of James I., “the
castellated castles, moated halls, and gabled manor-houses” of
old England “the sheltering, romantic roof-trees of those who
clung” to the ancient Faith——Why?——Henry VIII.’s religious
“change” and that of his progeny, King Edward VI. and Queen
Elizabeth, unlikely to be acceptable “all on a sudden” to bulk
of English people——Why?——Penal Legislation against Papists on
part of Government——Jesuits in England, 1580——Campion and
Parsons——Three Classes of English Jesuits——Mystics, _or_
Politicians——Mystics _and_ Politicians——The thirteen Gunpowder
plotters well-disposed towards Jesuits——But plotters only
Politicians.

CHAPTER VI. 19

Sir William Catesby (father of the arch-conspirator Robert
Catesby) and Sir Thomas Tresham (father of Francis Tresham),
fine old English gentlemen——Types of best class of Elizabethan
Catholic gentry——Both persecuted by Government——Sir Thomas
Tresham for more than twenty years pays for Fines equal in our
money to £2,080 a year, as a “popish recusant”——Sir Thomas
suffers imprisonment for at least twenty-one years after being
Star-Chambered——Such transactions account for phenomenon of
Gunpowder Treason Plot.