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WHAT WAS THE GUNPOWDER PLOT?
by
John Gerard, S.J.
LONDON OSGOOD, McILVAINE & CO. 45, Albemarle Street, W. 1897
PREFACE.
FOOTNOTES:
CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
WHAT WAS THE GUNPOWDER PLOT?
CHAPTER I.
THE STATE OF THE QUESTION.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II.
THE PERSONS CONCERNED.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III.
THE OPINION OF CONTEMPORARIES AND HISTORIANS.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV.
THE TRADITIONAL STORY.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V.
THE GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VI.
THE "DISCOVERY."
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII.
PERCY, CATESBY, AND TRESHAM.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII.
THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE.
i. The Trial of the Conspirators.
ii. The Fundamental Evidence.
iii. The Confession of Thomas Bates (December 4th, 1605).
iv. Robert Winter.
v. Captain Hugh Owen, Father William Baldwin, and others.
vi. Other Documents.
vii. Catholic Testimony.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX.
THE SEQUEL.
A Summary.
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX A.
NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece. The Powder Plot. I.
Title-Page.
Group of Conspirators (p. 3).
The Houses of Parliament in the time of James I. (pp. 56-7).
Ground Plan of House of Lords and adjacent Buildings (p. 59).
The House of Lords in 1807 (p. 61).
Interior of "Guy Faukes' Cellar" (p. 71).
Vault under the East End of the Painted Chamber (p. 73).
Arches from Guy Faukes' Cellar (p. 75).
Cell at S.E. corner of Painted Chamber (p. 83).
The Powder Plot. II. (p. 90).
Interior of the old House of Lords (Scene on occasion of the King's Speech, 1755) (p. 97).
Lord Monteagle and the Letter (p. 115).
Arrest of Guy Faukes (p. 125).
Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot (p. 136).
"Guy Faukes' Lantern" (p. 139).
Thomas Percy (p. 149).
Thomas Winter's Confession (p. 168).
Signatures exemplifying the Effects of Torture (p. 173).
Guy Faukes' Confession of November 9th, 1605 (p. 199).
The Powder Plot. III. (p. 215).
The Powder Plot. IV. (p. 227).
The Powder Plot. V. (p. 229).
APPENDIX B. (p. 33).
Sir Everard Digby's letter to Salisbury.
APPENDIX C. (p. 34).
The Question of Succession.
APPENDIX D. (p. 36).
The Spanish Treason.
APPENDIX E. (p. 60).
Site of Percy's lodging [see View, p. 56, and Plan, p. 59.]
APPENDIX F. (p. 64).
Enrolment of Conspirators.
APPENDIX G. (p. 94).
Henry Wright the Informer.
APPENDIX H. (p. 119).
Lord Monteagle to King James, (British Museum MSS. Add. 19402, f. 146.)
APPENDIX I. (p. 140).
Epitaph in St. Anne's, Aldersgate. [Maitland, London (1756), p. 1065.]
APPENDIX K. (p. 173).
The Use of Torture.
APPENDIX L. (p. 227).
Myths and Legends of the Powder Plot.
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX M.
Sir William Waad's Memorial Inscriptions.
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX N.
The Published Confession of Guy Faukes. A.
The draft, November 8th, 1605 (G.P.B. 49).
The Confession of Guy Fawkes, taken the 8 of November, 1605.
The Published Confession of Guy Faukes. B.
As signed by Faukes, November 17th, 1605 (G.P.B. 101).
FOOTNOTES:
INDEX.
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