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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence
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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence

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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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