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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence
By John Gerard
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- WHAT WAS THE GUNPOWDER PLOT?
- by
- John Gerard, S.J.
- LONDON OSGOOD, McILVAINE & CO. 45, Albemarle Street, W. 1897
- John Gerard, S.J.
- 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:
- THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE SEQUEL.
- A Summary.
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE SEQUEL.
- 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).
- NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 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:
- The Published Confession of Guy Faukes. A.
- INDEX.
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