Chapter LIV: 177

High Sheriffs of Warwickshire and Worcestershire with _posse
comitatus_ in pursuit——Plotters and rebels arrive at Holbeach
(near Stourbridge) at ten of the clock on Thursday night——Early
Friday morning explosion of drying gunpowder at Holbeach——
Catesby, Rookwood, and Grant burnt——Catesby unnerved——
Arch-conspirator and others betake themselves to prayers——
“Litanies and such like”——Make an hour’s “meditation”——About
eleven of the clock on Friday, 8th November, Sheriff of
Worcestershire and “hue and cry” surround Holbeach——Siege laid
thereto——Thomas Winter disabled by an arrow from crossbow——
Catesby and Percy, standing sword in hand, shot by one musket——
Catesby expires——John Wright wounded unto death——Christopher
Wright mortally wounded——Percy grievously wounded——Dies a day or
two afterwards——Ambrose Rookwood wounded——Sir Everard Digby
apprehended——Rest taken prisoners, except Stephen Littleton and
Robert Winter, who escape.

CHAPTER LV. 181

Father Henry Garnet changes his mind——Does not go up to London——
But from Gothurst, in Buckinghamshire, goes down to Coughton, in
Warwickshire, on the 29th October——All Saints’ Day (November
1st) at Coughton Hall (now Coughton Court)——Mass “offered” by
Father Garnet.

CHAPTER LVI. 185

Stephen Littleton, the Master of Holbeach, and Robert Winter, the
Master of Huddington, harboured at Rowley Regis, in
Staffordshire, by a tenant of Humphrey Littleton, Esquire, of
Hagley, Worcestershire, a cousin to Stephen Littleton——Humphrey
Littleton harbours the two fugitives from justice at Hagley
House, home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. John Littleton——Both
fugitives betrayed by man-cook at Hagley——Delivered over to the
officers of the law and conveyed to the Tower of London.

CHAPTER LVII. 188

Humphrey Littleton consults Father Edward Oldcorne, the Jesuit,
respecting the moral rightness or wrongness of the Gunpowder
Plot——Father Oldcorne’s Reply to Littleton _in extenso_.

CHAPTER LVIII. 190

Reply analyzed——Divisible into two distinct parts——First part:
gives an answer sounding in abstract truth alone, in other
words, leaves Littleton in abstracto——Second part: disclaims
knowledge of _end_ plotters had in view and _means_ they had
recourse to.

CHAPTER LIX. 193

Metaphysical Argument grounded on Oldcorne’s Reply to Humphrey
Littleton——Argument seeks to demonstrate that from tenour and
purport of Oldcorne’s Reply, the Jesuit must have had a special
interior knowledge of the Plot.

CHAPTER LX. (same continued) 195

CHAPTER LXI. (same continued) 198

CHAPTER LXII. (same continued) 200

CHAPTER LXIII. (same continued) 201

CHAPTER LXIV. (same continued) 204

CHAPTER LXV. (same continued) 208

CHAPTER LXVI. (same continued) 210

CHAPTER LXVII. (same continued) 212

CHAPTER LXVIII. (same continued) 215

CHAPTER LXIX. (same continued) 220

CHAPTER LXX. 222

Fathers Garnet and Oldcorne captured at Hindlip Hall the last week
of January, 1605-6——Conveyed to the Tower of London——Father
Oldcorne “racked five times, and once with the greatest severity
for several hours”——On 7th April, 1606, at Redhill, near
Worcester, Father Edward Oldcorne, Priest and Jesuit, hanged,
drawn, and quartered as a traitor——Brother Ralph Ashley, his
servant, hanged at the same time and place.

CHAPTER LXXI. 224

True inferences to be drawn from Father Oldcorne’s “last dying
speech and confession.”

CHAPTER LXXII. 227

Edward Oldcorne——Ralph Ashley.

CHAPTER LXXIII. 229

Thomas Ward.

RECAPITULATION OF PROOFS, ARGUMENTS, AND CONCLUSIONS. 233

SUPPLEMENTA.

SUPPLEMENTUM I. 239
Guy Fawkes.

SUPPLEMENTUM II. 260
Letter of Lord Bishop of Worcester (Dr. Bilson), to Sir Robert
Cecil, as to Diocese of Worcester.

SUPPLEMENTUM III. 264
Thomas Ward (or Warde).

SUPPLEMENTUM IV. 271
Mulwith, near Ripon.

SUPPLEMENTUM V. 279
Plowland, Holderness.

SUPPLEMENTUM VI. 287
Equivocation. Letter of the Rev. George Canning, S.J., Professor
of Ethics, St. Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst.

APPENDICES.

APPENDIX A 295
Circumstantial Evidence defined. (a) Evidence generally: (by Mr.
Frank Pick, York).

APPENDIX B 299
Discrepancy as to date when immaterial (per Lord Chief Justice
Scroggs, _temp_. Charles II.).

APPENDIX C 300
List of those apprehended for Plot in Warwickshire, &c. (a) List
of those frequenting Clopton (or Clapton) Hall,
Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.

APPENDIX D 304
Richard Browne (servant to Christopher Wright), his evidence.

APPENDIX E 306
William Grantham (servant to Hewett, Hatter), his evidence.

APPENDIX F 307
Robert Rookes (servant to Ambrose Rookwood), his evidence.

APPENDIX G 308
John Cradock (Cutler), his evidence.

APPENDIX H 310
Lord Chief Justice Popham’s statement as to Christopher Wright.

APPENDIX I 312
Sir Richard Verney, Knt., John Ferrers, William Combe, Bart.
Hales (Warwickshire Justices): Joint Statement to Earl of
Salisbury, as to Mrs. John Grant and Mrs. Thomas Percy.

APPENDIX J 313
Paris (boatman), his evidence, as to taking Guy Fawkes to
Gravelines, France, during “vacation,” 1605.

APPENDIX K 314
Miss Emma M. Walford, her opinion as to resemblance between
Edward Oldcorne’s original Declaration of 12th March, 1605-6,
and original Letter to Lord Mounteagle (both in Record Office,
Chancery Lane, London, W.C.).

APPENDIX L 315
Professor Bertram C. A. Windle, M.D., F.R.S., his opinion as to
distances between certain localities in Warwickshire,
Worcestershire, Northamptonshire, and Buckinghamshire.

APPENDIX M 318
Letter of Lieut.-Colonel Carmichael as to same.