The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document

The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document - Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes

In order that the problem of the Gunpowder Plot may be understood, it is necessary for the reader to bear in mind that there were three movements distinct though connected against the Government on the part of the oppressed Roman Catholic recusants in the year 1605. The first of these movements was a general wave of insurrectionary feeling, of which there is evidence in Yorkshire as far back as 1596; in Lancashire about 1600; and in Herefordshire, at a later date, much more markedly. Then there was the Gunpowder Plot itself. And, lastly, there was the rebellion that was planned to take place in the Midlands, which, to a very limited extent, did take place, and in the course of which four of the conspirators were slain. That Salisburys spies and decoys who were, like Walsinghams, usually not Protestants but bad Catholics had something to do with stirring up the general revolutionary feeling is more than probable; but that either he or they planned, either jointly or severally, the particular enterprise known as the Gunpowder Treason Plot which was as insane as it was infamous I do not for a moment believe. All students of English History, however, are greatly indebted to the Rev. John Gerard, S.J., for his threexxxvi recent critical works on this subject; but still that the main outlines of the Plot are as they have come down to us by tradition, to my mind, Dr. Samuel Rawson Gardiner abundantly proves in his book in reply to the Rev. John Gerard. The names of the works to which I refer are: What was the Gunpowder Plot? the Rev. J. Gerard, S.J. (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.); The Gunpowder Plot and Plotters (Harper Bros.); Thomas Winters Confession and the Gunpowder Plot (Harper Bros.); and What Gunpowder Plot was, S. R. Gardiner, D.C.L., LL.D. (Longmans). ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 40029
Author: Spink, Henry
Release Date: Jun 18, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English