Chapter XXIV: Appendix: N

THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. A.

_The draft, November 8th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 49).

*** Passages between square brackets have been cancelled. Those marked * have been ticked off for omission.

_The Confession of Guy Fawkes, taken the 8 of November, 1605._

HE confesseth that a Practise in generall was first broken unto him, agaynst his Majesty, for the Catholique cause, and not invented or propounded by himself, and this was first propounded unto him about Easter last was twelvemonth, beyond the seas in the Low countreyes, by an English Lay-man, and that English man came over with him in his company into England, and they tow and three more weare the first five mencioned in the former examination. And they five resolving to do some thinge for the Catholick cause,--a vowe being first taken by all of them for secrecye,--one of the other three propounded to perform it with Powder, and resolved that the place should be,--where this action should be performed and justice done,--in or neere the place of the sitting of the Parliament, wherein Religion had been uniustly suppressed. This beeinge resolved the manner [of it] was as followeth.

THE PUBLISHED CONFESSION OF GUY FAUKES. B.

_As signed by Faukes, November 17th, 1605_ (G.P.B. 101).

*** Square brackets indicate an erasure. Italics an addition or substitution.

The [deposition] _declaration_ of Guy Fawkes prisonner in the Tower of London _taken the 17 of Nov. 1605, acknowledged before the Lords Commissioners._[468]

_A._ I confesse that a practise in generall was first broken unto me against his Majestie, for releife of the Catholique cause, and not invented or propounded by my self.

And this was first propounded unto me about Easter last was twelvemonth, beyond the Seas, in the Low countries of the Archdukes obeysance by Thomas Wynter, who came thereupon with me into England, and there wee imparted our purpose to three other Englishmen more, namely Rob^t Catesby, Tho^s Percy, and John Wright, who all five consulting together of the meanes how to execute the same, and taking a vowe among our selves for secresie Catesby propounded to have it performed by Gunpowder, and by making a myne under the upper house of Parliament, which place wee made choice of the rather,

[_A. The draft._]

First they hyred the Howse at Westminster of one Ferris,[469] and havinge the howse they sought to make a myne under the upper howse of Parliament, and they begann to make the myne in or about the xi of December, and they five first entered into the worke, and soone after toke an other unto them, havinge first sworne him and taken the Sacrament, for secrecye. And when they came to the wall,--that was about three yards thicke,--and found it a matter of great difficultie, they tooke to them an other in like manner, with oath and Sacrament as afore sayd. All which seaven, were gentlemen of name and bloode, and not any man was employed in or about that action,--noe not so much as in digginge and myning that was not a gentleman. And having wrought to the wall before Christmas, they reasted untill after the holydayes, and the day before Christmas,--having a masse of earth that came out of the myne,--they carryed it into the Garden of the said Howse, and after Christmas they wrought on the wall till Candlemas, and wrought the wall half through, and sayeth that all the tyme while the others wrought he stood as Sentynell to descrie any man that came neere, and when any man came neere to the place, uppon warninge given by him they rested untill they had notyce to proceed from hym, and sayeth that they seaven all lay in the Howse, and had shott and powder, and they all resolved to dye in that place before they yeilded or weare taken.

[_B. The Confession as signed._]

because Religion having been unjustly suppressed there, it was fittest that Justice and punishment should be executed there.

_B._ This being resolved amongst us, Thomas Percy hired a howse at Westminster for that purpose, neare adjoyning the Parl^t howse, and there wee beganne to make a myne about the xi of December 1604. The fyve that entered into the woorck were Thomas Percye, Robert Catesby, Thomas Wynter, John Wright, and my self, and soon after we tooke another unto us, Christopher Wright, having sworn him also, and taken the Sacrament for secrecie.

_C._ When wee came to the verie foundation of the Wall of the house, which was about 3 yeards thick, and found it a matter of great difficultie, we took to us another gentleman Robert [Wynter] _Keys_[470] in like manner with our oathe and Sacrament as aforesaid.

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_D._ It was about Christmas when wee brought our myne unto the Wall, and about Candlemas we had wrought the Wall half through. And whilst they were a working, I stood as sentinell, to descrie any man that came neare, whereof I gave them warning, and so they ceased untill I gave them notice agayne to proceede. All wee seaven lay in the house, and had shott and powder, being resolved to dye in that place before we should yeild or be taken.

[_A. The draft._]

And as they weare workinge, they heard a rushinge in the cellar which grew by _one_[471] Brights selling of his coles whereuppon this Examinant, fearinge they had been discovered, went into the cellar and viewed the cellar, and perceivinge the commoditye thereof for their purposs, and understandinge how it would be letten his maister, M^r Percy, hyred the Cellar for a yeare, for 4 pounds rent. And confesseth that after Christmas 20^{ty} barrells of Powder weare brought by themselves to a Howse which they had on the Banksyde in Hampers, and from that Howse removed the powder to the sayd Howse, neere the upper Howse of Parliament. And presently upon hyringe the cellar, they themselfs removed the powder into the cellar, and couvered the same with faggots which they had before layd into the sellar.

After, about Easter, he went into the Low Countryes,--as he before hath declared in his former examination,--and that the trew purpos of his goinge over was least beinge a dangerous man he should be known and suspected, and in the meane tyme he left the key [of the cellar] with M^r Percye, whoe in his absence caused more Billetts to be layd into the Cellar, as in his former examination he confessed, and retourned about the end of August or the beginninge of September, and went agayne to the sayd howse, nere to the sayd cellar, and received the key of the cellar agayne of one of the five. And then they brought in five or six barrells of powder more into the cellar, which all soe they couvered with billetts, saving fower little barrells covered with ffaggots, and then this examinant went into the Country about the end of September.

[_B. The Confession as signed._]

_E._ As they were working upon the wall, they heard a rushing in a cellar of removing of coles; whereupon wee feared wee had been discovered, and they sent me to go to the cellar, who fynding that the coles were a selling, and that the Cellar was to be lett, viewing the commoditye thereof for our purpose, Percy went and hired the same for yearly Rent.

Wee had before this provyded and brought into the house 20 barrells of Powder, which wee removed into the Cellar, and covered the same with billets and fagots, which we provided for that purpose.

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_F._ About Easter, the Parliament being proroged tyll October next, wee dispersed our selfs and I retired into the Low countryes, _by advice and direction of the rest, as well to acquaint Owen with the particulars of the plot, as also_[472] lest by my longer staye I might have grown suspicious, and so have come in question.

In the meane tyme Percy, having the key of the Cellar, layd in more powder and wood into it.

I returned about the beginning of September next and then receyving the key againe of Percy, we brought in more powder and billets to cover the same againe.

[_A. The draft._]

* It appeareth the powder was in the cellar, placed as it was found the 5 of November, when the Lords came to proroge the Parliament, and sayeth that he returned agayne to the sayd Howse neare the cellar on Wednesday the 30 of October.

[He confesseth he was at the Erle of Montgomeryes marriage, but as he sayeth with noe intention of evill, havinge a sword about him, and was very neere to his Majesty and the Lords there present.]

Forasmuch as they knew not well how they should come by the person of the Duke Charles, beeinge neere London, where they had no forces,--if he had not been all soe blowne upp,--He confesseth that it was resolved amonge them, that the same day that this detestable act should have been performed, the same day should other of their confederacye have surprised the person of the Lady Elizabeth, and presently have proclaimed her queen [to which purpose a Proclamation was drawne, as well to avowe and justify the Action, as to have protested against the Union, and in no sort to have meddeled with Religion therein. And would have protested all soe agaynst all strangers] and this proclamation should have been made in the name of the Lady Elizabeth.

* Beinge demanded why they did not surprise the Kinges person and draw him to the effectinge of their purpose, sayeth that soe many must have been acquaynted with such an action as it could not have been kept secrett.

He confesseth that if their purpose had taken effect untill they had power enough they would not have avowed the deed to be theirs; but if their power,--for their defence and safetye,--had been sufficient they themselfes would have taken it upon them.

[_B. The Confession as signed._]

And so [I] went for a tyme into the country, till the 30 of October.

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_G._ It was farther resolved amongst us that the same day that this action should have been performed some other of our confederates should have surprised the person of the Lady Elizabeth the Kings eldest daughter, who was kept in Warwickshire at the Lo. Harringtons house, and presently have proclaimed her for Queene, having a project of a Proclamation ready for the purpose, wherein we made no mention of altering of Religion,----

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---- nor would have avowed the deed to be ours untill we should have had power enough to make our partie good, and then we would have avowed both.

[_A. The draft._]

* They meant all soe to have sent for the Prisoners in the Tower to have come to them, of whom particularly they had some consultation.

* He confesseth that the place of Rendez-vous was in Warwickshire, and that armour was sent thither, but the particuler thereof he knowes not.

He confesseth that they had consultation for the takinge of the Lady Marye into their possession, but knew not how to come by her.

And confesseth that provision was made by some of the conspiracye of some armour of proofe this last Summer for this Action.

* He confesseth that the powder was bought of the common Purse of the Confederates.

L. Admyrall }
L. Chamberlayne }
Erle of Devonshire } attended by M^r
Erle of Northampton } Attorney generall.
Erle of Salisbury }
Erle of Marr }
L. cheif Justice }

[_Endorsed_] Examination of Guy Fauks, Nov^r 8th, 1605.

[_B. The Confession as signed._]

_H._ Concerning Duke Charles, the Kings second son, we hadd sundrie consultations how to sease on his person, but because wee found no meanes how to compasse it,--the Duke being kept near London,--where we had not forces enough, wee resolved to serve ourselves with the Lady Elizabeth.

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_J._ The names of other principall persons that were made privie afterwards to this horrible conspiracie.

[_Signed_] GUIDO FAUKES.

Everard Digby, Knight
Ambrose Ruckwood
Francis Tresham
John Grant
Robert [Keys] _Wynter_

[_Witnessed_] Edw. Coke W. Waad.

[_Endorsed_] Fawkes his [deposition] _declaration 17 Nov.
1605_.[473]

FOOTNOTES:

[468] Alterations and additions (in italics) made by Sir Edward Coke.

[469] This name has seemingly been tampered with.

[470] Changed by Cecil; but on November 14th, writing to Edmondes, he included Keyes amongst those that "wrought not in the myne," and R. Winter amongst those who did.

[471] Interlined.

[472] The words italicised are added in the published version.

[473] Words in italics added by Coke.

INDEX.

Abbot, Robert, Bishop of Salisbury, his version of the missing
confessions of Faukes, 192 _seq._

Acton, Robert, 113.

Alabaster, Thomas, a priest in government employ, 204 _note_.

Andrew, William, servant to Sir E. Digby, evidence of, 78 _note_.

_Annals of England_, cited, 48.

_Answere to Scandalous papers_ (Cecil's manifesto), 44, 219 _seq._

Babington's Plot, 14.

Baldwin, Father William, S.J.; allegations against him, 185, 187
_seq._; which are not substantiated, 195; correspondence with Father
Schondonck, 201, 222.

Bancroft, Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, 46, 147.

Barlow, Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln, 62, 70 _note_.

Barnes, a government agent, 112.

Bartlett, George, servant to Catesby, his evidence reported, 160.

Bates, Thomas, servant to Catesby, his introduction to the
Conspiracy, 3, 178; his alleged evidence against Greenway, 178-183;
trial and execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.

Batty, Matthew, evidence regarding Monteagle, 78 _note_.

"Blackfriars Downfall," the, 242.

Blount, Father Richard, S.J., on government intelligence, 77; on
Suffolk's proposal of toleration, 224; on Cecil's "new stratagem,"
224, 225.

Brayley and Britton (_Palace of Westminster_), 79 _note_.

Brewer, Rev. John Sherren, on the fate of Parry, the conspirator,
14; on government devices, 15; on Cecil's knowledge of the Plot, 48;
on the Monteagle letter, 117.

Bromley, Sir Henry, Sheriff of Worcestershire, 167 _note_.

Buck, Mr., alleged warning given to, 51 _note_, 106.

Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury, 46.

"Bye," the, 15 _note_.

Camden, William, the historian, 36 _note_.

Capon, William, on the old Palace of Westminster, 79, 86; on traces
of the mine, 87.

Carleton, Dudley, afterwards Viscount Dorchester, patronized by
Cecil, 62; assists Percy to hire the house at Westminster, 61;
reports the French version of the Plot, 140; and its contradiction,
141; his mysterious connection with the Conspiracy, 150 _note_; his
opinion of Percy, 150.

Castlemaine, Earl of (Roger Palmer), on State plots, 14, 48; on
Osborne's qualifications as an historian, 44 _note_; on the fate of
decoy ducks, 152.

Carte, Thomas (_General History of England_), 46.

Carey, ----, evidence regarding Percy, 150.

Catesby, Robert, a ringleader in the Conspiracy, 9, 64; his
character and antecedents, 35 _seq._; persuades his associates not
to reveal their project to priests, 179; undertakes to proclaim the
new sovereign, 83; his death, 4, 152 _seq._; suspicions concerning
him, 156, 160. _See also_ Conspirators.

Catholics, their numbers, 28; their condition under Elizabeth, 29;
their hopes from James, 31, 33, 247, 248; his promises to them, 29;
they welcome his accession, _ibid_, 34; temporary relief at his
hands, _ibid_; their consequent increase, 28, 30; Cecil's hostility,
28, 30, 47, 48, 51, 105; attempt to charge them with the Plot, 4-6,
107, 108; legislation against them on account of it, 212 _seq._; its
lasting effects in their regard, 209, 225.

Cecil, Robert, first Earl of Salisbury, his character, 19 _seq._;
dignities conferred by James I., 19 _note_; and nicknames, 19
_note_; his unpopularity, 21 _seq._; difficulties and dangers of his
position, 26 _seq._; in the pay of Spain, 21; and probably of
France, 22 _note_; his secret correspondence with King James, 21;
his intrigues against Northumberland and Raleigh, 26, 198, 216;
hostility to the Catholics, 27, 95, 105; anxiety on account of the
king's attitude, 28; and dealings with Pope Clement VIII., 104;
endeavours to commit James to a policy of intolerance, 105; his
political methods, 44, 111; employs the services of forgers, 112
_note_, 203; his knowledge of the Plot, 94 _seq._; alleged secret
dealings with Percy, 15; Tresham, 158; and Catesby, 160; contradicts
himself concerning the "discovery," 123 _seq._; his inexplicable
delay in making it, 132; and conduct afterwards, 137; was not taken
by surprise, 210; at once turns the Plot to his advantage, 213; his
determination to incriminate priests, 4 _seq._, 130; advantages
reaped by him, 30, 213 _seq._; his Manifesto, 218 _seq._; suspected
of having originated or manipulated the Conspiracy, 43 _seq._;
alleged attempt to float a second Plot, 225.

Cecil, Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, 19 _note_, 160 _note_.

Cecil, William, second Earl of Salisbury, his testimony reported,
160.

Cecil, William, a priest in government employ, 45 _note_.

"Cellar," the, its situation and character, 58, 79 _note_; hired by
the conspirators, 69 _seq._; problems concerning it, 87 _seq._; its
after history, 137; accompanies the migrations of the House of
Lords, 80 _note_.

Challoner, Sir Thomas, information addressed to, 94, 95.

Chamberlain, John, M.P., on Cecil's death and character, 23, 24;
account of the "discovery," 128; on the King's lucky day, 231; on
Percy's character, 150.

Charles, Duke of York, afterwards Charles I.; plans of the
conspirators regarding him, 81 _seq._

Chichester, Sir Arthur, Deputy in Ireland, 4, 108, 124.

Coal, Father Greenway's description of, 71 _note_.

Cobham, eighth Lord (Henry Brooke), his charge of forgery against
Waad, 202.

Cobham, ninth Lord (William Brooke), his evidence reported, 45.

Coke, Sir Edward, Attorney-General, his falsification of evidence,
200; Cecil's instructions to him, 116 _note_; his assertions, 85,
88; interrogatories prepared by him, 176; his humour, 63 _note_;
proofs against Owen, 190; witnesses Thomas Winter's declaration,
169; and that of Faukes, 172; his treatment of Raleigh and
Northumberland, 217.

Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice, on the English penal laws, 29 _note_.

Conspirators, the, list of, 2, 3; their character and antecedents,
35-41; their enrolment, 9, 64, 252; their plans and proceedings,
9-11, 60 _seq._; mining operations, 10, 63; incredibility of the
story, 65 _seq._, 76 _seq._, 141; they hire the "cellar," 69 _seq._;
purchase and store gunpowder, 78; difficulties concerning it, 78,
132, 134-137; further designs, 11, 80-82; alarmed by the
prorogation, 114, 230; flight and attempted rebellion, 2; their
fate, 4-6.

Cope, Sir Walter, on the character of Cecil, 27 _note_.

Cornwallis, Sir Charles, English Ambassador in Spain, on the
character of the conspirators, 40; letter to Father Cresswell, 195;
on the Catholic design to murder Cecil, 221 _note_.

Cresswell, Father Joseph, S.J., allegations concerning him, 195;
Cornwallis' letter to him, _ibid_.

Dacre, Francis, titular Lord, efforts to connect him with the Plot,
177.

Darnley, Henry, Lord, father of James I., the victim of a gunpowder
plot, 37, 50.

Davenport, Father Christopher, O.P. (Francis a S. Clara), 145
_note_.

Davies, Joseph, a government "discoverer," 94.

De Beaumont, M., French Ambassador, 119 _note_.

De la Boderie, M., French Ambassador, on Cecil's insecurity, 26; on
the ruin of Northumberland, 23.

Del-Rio, Father Martin, S.J., said to have described the Plot A.D.
1600, 263.

Derby, Earl of (William Stanley), attempt to incriminate him, 198.

De Ros, Lord, on Faukes' plan of escape, 144 _note_.

Devonshire, Earl of (Charles Blount), 168 _note_, 170 _note_, 211,
266.

Digby, Sir Everard, joins the Conspiracy, 10, 253; difficulties and
contradictions regarding him, 79 _note_, 253; his letter to
Salisbury, 33, 245; part assigned to him, 78 _note_; his fate, 6.
_See also_ Conspirators.

Digby, Sir John, English Ambassador in Spain, 22 _note_.

Digby, Sir Kenelm, his evidence reported, 160.

Digby, Sir Robert, 38 _note_.

Dixon, Hepworth (_Her Majesty's Tower_), on government intelligence,
111 _note_.

Dodd, Rev. Charles, on the origin of the Plot, 18, 51.

Dorset, Earl of (Thomas Sackville), his esteem for Cecil, 21.

Dunbar, Earl of (George Hume), 168 _note_, 172, 266.

Dunfermline, Earl of (Alexander Seaton), on the effective use of
torture, 259.

Dunsmoor Heath, projected hunting match on, 11.

Edmondes, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Brussels, account of the
"discovery" sent to him, 108, 124; version of Faukes' confession
sent to him, 186; proofs against Owen sent to him, 190, 191; his
negotiations with the archdukes, 186 _seq._; letters of, 102, 187,
188, 189; letters to, 85, 106, 113, 154, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190.

Elizabeth, Princess, daughter of James I., designs of the
conspirators regarding her, 81.

_England's Warning Peece_, 195, 262.

_English Protestants' Plea_, 40, 51, 108 _note_, 195 _note_.

Eudaemon-Joannes, Father Andrew, S.J., 204.

Faukes, Guy or Guido, _alias_ John Johnson, his position and
character, 39, 262; his Spanish mission, 36; introduced to the
Conspiracy, 9, 64; passes as Percy's servant, 71, 77; keeps guard
while the others work, 66; discovers the "cellar," 70; has charge of
the premises, 77, 89, 142; visits Flanders, 91, 162; appointed to
fire the powder, 1; plans for his escape, 144; arrest, 123-128;
published confession, 169 _seq._, 268 _seq._; evidence falsified,
200; missing depositions, 191; tortured, 172, 200, 260; trial and
execution, 6, 260; fables respecting him, 261. _See also_
Conspirators.

Favat, Mr., Cecil's letter to, 5, 182.

Ferrers, Henry, sub-lets the house at Westminster to Percy, 61.

Fifth of November, a propitious day for the "discovery," 231; the
day solemnized, 5.

Floyde, Griffith, a government spy, 49.

French historians on the Plot, 141 _note_.

French official accounts of the Plot, 140, 141.

Fuller, Mr., M.P., 132 _note_.

Fuller, Thomas (_Church History of Britain_), 46, 225.

Fulman MSS., 169.

Gardiner, Professor Samuel Rawson, his favourable estimate of
Cecil's character, 20; on the Spanish pension, 22 _note_; repudiates
imputations against the government, 18; on the conspirators' plans,
82; on the Monteagle letter, 117; on the king's interpretation, 132
_note_; on the desire to incriminate priests, 4 _note_.

Garnet, Father Henry, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator,
5; his capture, 7, 166; lack of evidence, 7; trial and execution,
_ibid_.; his account of the conspirators' proceedings, 208; his
evidence against Catesby, 157; on the accession of James, 29 _note_.

_Gentleman's Magazine_, 52 _note_, 262.

Gerard, Col. John, 160 _note_.

Gerard, Father John, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator, 5;
exonerated by historians, 237; his history of the Plot, 205; his
experiences in the Tower, 202; on the persecution of Catholics, 32;
opinion of the "discovery," 49; and of the official narrative, 129;
on the death of Percy and Catesby, 156 _note_.

Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop of Gloucester, on the origin of the
Conspiracy, 44; on the king's promises to Catholics, 29 _note_; on
the persecution of Catholics, 32; on the "discovery," 134 _note_; on
the death of Whynniard, 92 _note_; on Percy's intercourse with
Cecil, 151; on the death of Percy and Catesby, 154; his religious
views, 145 _note_.

Gowrie Conspiracy, the, 231, 232.

"Great Horses," 2 _note_.

Grange, Justice E., 148 _note_.

Grant, John, 37. _See also_ Conspirators.

Green, Mrs. Everett, wrongly describes Owen as a Jesuit, 185 _note_.

Green, John Richard (_History of the English People_), 30.

Greenway, _alias_ Tesimond, Father Oswald, S.J., proclaimed as a
principal conspirator, 5; Bates' alleged evidence against him,
178-183; his history of the Plot, 206; opinion of the official
narrative, 134; on the effects of an explosion, 133; on government
despatches concerning Percy, 155; his visit to the rebels at
Huddington, 206 _note_; fables respecting him, 264.

Gregory, Arthur, a forger employed by government, 203.

Grene, Father Martin, S.J., notes on the Plot, 45.

Gunpowder, amount procured by the conspirators, 78; difficulties
concerning it, 132 _seq._

Hagley Hall, R. Winter and S. Littleton captured there, 4.

Hallam, Henry (_Constitutional History_), repudiates imputations
against the government, 18; on Father Garnet's capture, _ibid_.,
_note_; on King James's title to the crown, 34.

Harington, Sir John, 4.

Hawarde, John (_Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata_), 165
_note_.

Heiwood, or Heywood, Peter, 139 _note_, 258.

Hendlip House (Thomas Abbington's), the scene of Father Garnet's
capture, 18 _note_, 166 _note_.

Henry, Prince of Wales, anticipations concerning him, 33; the
conspirators' plans in his regard, 80, 81, 176.

Herring, Francis (_Pietas Pontificia_), 27 _note_, 143 _note_.

Higgons, Bevil (_English History_), 47.

Hoby, Sir Edward, on the death of Percy, 154.

Holbeche House (Stephen Littleton's), the conspirators there slain
or captured, 2, 4.

House of Lords, its situation and subsequent migrations, 55 _seq._;
never represented in pictures of the Plot, 228.

House, Percy's, at Westminster, its position, 60, 251; circumstances
of the bargain for it, 60; difficulties concerning it, 62, 64, 67,
88.

Howes, Edmund (continuation of Stowe's _Chronicle_), 127.

Huddington House (Robert Winter's), 206 _note_.

Ichrup, Thomas, name given to Faukes, 149, 244.

Inglefield, Sir Francis, 249.

James I., King of Great Britain, his claim to the succession, 34;
circumstances of his accession, 34, 35; hopes of the Catholics, 28;
who support his cause, 34; his policy at first favourable to them,
29; soon reversed, 31; his dealings with Pope Clement VIII., 104;
his supposed interpretation of the letter, 128, 131; Tuesday his
lucky day, 230; his speech to Parliament, 211; accuses Catholics in
general and the Pope, 4; suspected of previous knowledge of the
Plot, 46; anxiety for evidence against priests, 182; letter to the
Archdukes, 187 _note_; alleged subsequent opinion of the Plot, 45;
instructions for the torture of Faukes, 259; his Scotch dialect, 260
_note_; gives his royal word against Owen and Baldwin, 187; his
policy permanently affected, 209.

James, John, a supposed Dominican, 139 _note_, 258.

Jardine, David, on the character of the official narrative, 129,
163; on the falsification of evidence, 199; on the Monteagle letter,
117; on the king's interpretation, 132 _note_; on the established
facts of the case, 12; not perfectly impartial, 161, 207; on the
results of the Plot, 213.

Jessopp, Augustus, D.D., on the value of money, 36 _note_, 117
_note_; on Father Gerard's innocence, 207.

Jesuits, efforts to incriminate, 177 _note_; Cecil on their
"insolencies," 106.

Kennet, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 45 _note_, 46, 263.

Keyes, Robert, contradictions respecting him, 84 _note_, 183. _See
also_ Conspirators.

"King's Book," the, its character, 108; Cecil's description of it,
219, 220.

Knyvet, or Knevet, Sir Thomas, leads the party which captures
Faukes, 124 _seq._; receives a peerage, 139 _note_; the Countess of
Suffolk his sister, 224 _note_.

Lake, Sir Thomas, 19, 232.

Lenthal, William, Speaker of the Long Parliament, his evidence
reported, 160.

Lindsay, Sir James, conveys messages between King James and Pope
Clement VIII., 104.

Lingard, John, D.D., 68 _note_, 231.

Littleton, Humphrey, 167 _note_.

Littleton, Stephen, 2, 4, 156.

Lodge, Edmund, F.S.A. (_Illustrations of British History_), 98.

Lopez' Plot, 14.

"Main," the, 15 _note_, 26, 216.

Mar, Earl of (John Erskine), 168 _note_, 172, 266.

Mary, Princess, daughter of James I., 81, 176.

Milton, poems on the Plot, 226.

Mine, the, story told respecting it, 63 _seq._; difficulties
respecting it, 84 _seq._

_Mischeefe's Mystery_, 72, 115, 121, 123, 153 _note_, 159.

Money, value of, 36 _note_, 117 _note_; amount raised by
conspirators, 39.

Monteagle, Lord (William Parker), his character and antecedents,
118; relations with the king and court, 34, 119; letter to the king,
119, 256; connection with the conspirators, 118; communicates the
warning letter to Cecil, 120-123, 160; attends parliament on the day
of the "discovery," 137 _note_; devices of the government on his
behalf, 116; rewards conferred, 116; subsequent conduct, 258.

Moore, Sir Francis, his evidence reported, 151.

Moore, Sir Jonas, 138.

More, Father Henry, S.J., 49.

Morgan, Harry, 81 _note_.

Morgan, Thomas, 157 _note_, 193 _note_.

Naunton, Sir Robert, on Cecil's character, 19.

Northampton, Earl of (Henry Howard), a nominal Catholic promoted by
King James, 29; Cecil's agent in his secret correspondence, 26
_note_; on Cecil's death, 23; on the history of the "cellar," 58
_note_; not admitted to all Cecil's secrets, 112.

Northumberland, Earl of (Henry Percy), a rival of Cecil's, 26; who
secretly traduces him, 26 _note_, 215, 216; the Plot turned to his
ruin, 26, 107, 216-218; which is attributed to Cecil, 26 _note_,
218, his sentiments in return, 218.

Nottingham, Earl of, Lord Admiral (Charles Howard), 170 _note_,
265.

Oates, Titus, 46, 138.

Oath taken by the conspirators, 9.

Oldcorne, _alias_ Hall, Father Edward, S.J., captured along with
Garnet, 7; never accused of complicity _ib._; Catholic demonstration
at his execution, 28 _note_; tortured, 173.

Oldmixon (_Royal House of Stuart_), 25 _note_, 46.

Osborne, Francis, on Cecil's unpopularity, 25; on the "discovery,"
44; on the 5th of August celebration, 232 _note_; on Northumberland
and Cecil, 218; his qualifications as an historian, 44.

Owen, Captain Hugh, falsely described as a Jesuit, 173 _note_, 185
_note_; particularly obnoxious to the government, 173, 185; evidence
fabricated against him, 174; Cecil's instruction respecting him, 116
_note_; efforts made to secure him, 185 _seq._; his intercourse with
Phelippes, 112, 185 _note_.

Owen, Lewis, 263.

Paris, Henry, 162.

Parliament, its successive adjournments, 67, 70 _note_, 91, 114,
230; meets on the day of the "discovery," 136; activity against
Catholics, 5, 212 _seq._

Parry, Sir Thomas, English Ambassador at Paris, instructions given
to, 28 _note_; intelligence supplied by, 98, 101, 102; account of
the discovery furnished to, 126 _seq._

Parry, Dr. William, his Plot, 14, 153.

Parsons, Father Robert, S.J., letters to, 29 _note_, 77, 223; his
views as to the succession, 249; on Walsingham's "spyery," 77.

Percy, Sir Charles, 192 _note_.

Percy, Thomas, one of the first and principal conspirators, 9, 64;
his antecedents, 36, 37, 148; house hired by him, 60; and "cellar,"
75; strange conduct in both transactions, 88; conduct afterwards,
88, 91; undertakes to seize Duke Charles or Princess Elizabeth, 82;
his death, 4, 152 _seq_; profession of religious zeal, 148; bigamy,
_ibid_; Catholics suspicious of him, 150; alleged secret dealings
with Cecil, 151; the case against him, 148-156. _See also_
Conspirators.

Phelippes, Thomas, the "decipherer," employed by the government,
111; their devices against him, 112; correspondence with Hugh Owen,
185 _note_.

Pickering, Mr., and his horse, 261. _Plain and Rational Account of
the Catholick Faith_, 49.

Plots under Elizabeth and James I., 14, 15, 153, 157 _note_, 193
_note_; their common feature, 13.

_Polititian's Catechism_, 51 _note_, 106, 137 _note_.

Pope Clement VIII., interchanges communications with James I., 104.

Pope Paul V., represented as an accomplice in the Plot, 5, 239.

Popham, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, 170 _note_, 197, 266.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, Cecil's enmity towards him, 26 _note_, 48
_note_, 198; his ruin, 26, 216; attempt to implicate him in the
Powder Plot, 197, 198.

Ratcliffe, Ralph, a government spy, 95, 96, 191.

Rich, Sir Edwin, 264.

Richardot, President, 189.

Rogers, Professor Thorold, on the value of money, 117 _note_; on
James's title to the throne, 34.

Rokewood, Ambrose, 179 _note_. _See also_ Conspirators.

Salisbury, first Earl of. _See_ Cecil, Robert.

Salisbury, second Earl of. _See_ Cecil, William.

Sanderson, Sir William, 46.

Schondonck, Father Giles, S. J., Rector of St. Omers, on the
innocence of the Jesuits, 201; on Cecil's manifesto, 222.

Scott, Sir Walter, 132 _note_.

Shakespeare, never alludes to the Plot, 226 _note_.

Sharpe, Dr. R. R., 262 _note_.

Shepherd, John, evidence of, 251.

Smith, John Thomas (_Antiquities of Westminster_), 58 _note_, 79
_note_, 89 _note_.

Soane, Sir John, 238.

Southwaick, or Southwell, a government spy, 99-102.

Speed, John (_Historie_), 62, 63 _note_.

Squires, Edward, his plot, 14.

Stanley, Sir William, 185, 192 _note_.

Strange, Father Thomas, S. J., 96 _note_.

Streete, John, pensioned for killing Percy and Catesby, 155.

Strype, John (_Annals_), 28 _note_.

Suffolk, Earl of, Lord Chamberlain (Thomas Howard), his venality,
224.

Talbot, John, of Grafton, 38 _note_.

Talbot, Peter, Archbishop of Dublin. _See Polititian's Catechism._

Theobald, Lewis, 267.

Topcliffe, Richard, priest-hunter, 202.

Torture, use of, 4, 5, 172, 173, 201 _note_, 259, 260.

Tresham, Francis, enlisted in the enterprise, 10, 252 _seq_.; his
previous record, 35, 36; his action on behalf of King James, 34;
suspected of writing the warning letter, 147, 158; and of collusion
with Cecil, _ibid._; his conduct after the "discovery," 3, 158; his
death in the Tower, 6 _note_, 158. _See also_ Conspirators.

Tresham, Sir Thomas, proclaims King James, 34; summoned to Court,
248.

_True and Perfect Relation_, character of the narrative, 43, 163.

Tytler, Patrick Fraser, 112.

Usher, James, Archbishop of Armagh, his evidence reported, 45.

_Venatio Catholica_, 261.

_Vetusta Monumenta_, 79, 86.

Villeroy, M., on Cecil's duplicity, 23.

"Vinegar House," 60 _note_.

Vowell, Peter, evidence reported, 160.

Waad, Sir William, lieutenant of the Tower, charged by Cobham with
forgery of evidence, 202; dismissed from his post, 203 _note_, 267;
his inscriptions in the Tower, 264, 267; letters to Cecil, 168, 258.

Walsh, Sir Richard, sheriff of Worcestershire, 4, 154 _note_.

Ward, Samuel, preacher and artist, 239.

Webb, John, evidence reported, 160.

Weldon, Sir Anthony, on Cecil's unpopularity, 25.

Welwood, James (_Memoirs_), 46.

Westmoreland, titular Earl of (Henry Neville), attempt to implicate
him, 197.

Whynniard, Mr., landlord of Percy's house, 61 _note_, 89; his sudden
death, 92 _note_.

Whynniard, Mrs., evidence of, 61, 67, 72, 88, 142.

Willaston, William, intelligence supplied by, 99.

Wimbledon, Viscount (Edward Cecil), his evidence reported, 160.

Windsor, Lord, his house plundered by the conspirators, 2.

Winter, Robert, introduced to the conspiracy, 10; captured at
Hagley, 4; evidences of foul play in his regard, 183, 184; trial and
execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.

Winter, Thomas, one of the first conspirators, 9, 64; character, 35;
Spanish mission, 36, 118; brings Faukes from Flanders, 9; attends
the prorogation, Oct. 3rd, 74 _note_, 230; captured at Holbeche, 4;
his published confession, 167 _seq._; probably tortured, 169; trial
and execution, 6. _See also_ Conspirators.

Wood, Anthony a, notes addressed to, 159.

Worcester, Earl of (Edward Somerset), 168 _note_, 266.

Wotton, Sir Henry, 160.

Wren, Sir Christopher, 138.

Wright, Christopher, his introduction to the Conspiracy, 9, 64;
character, 35, 37; previous employment in Spain, 36; killed at
Holbeche, 4, 152. _See also_ Conspirators.

Wright, Henry, his informations, 94, 95, 254.

Wright, John, one of the first conspirators, 9, 64; character, 35,
37; killed at Holbeche, 4, 152. _See also_ Conspirators.

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