Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) * * * * * Transcriber’s Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the TRANSCRIBER’S AMENDMENTS near the end of the text. To preserve the alignment of tables and headers, this etext presumes a mono-spaced font on the user’s device, such as Courier New. Words in italics are indicated like _this_. But the publisher also wanted to emphasize names in sentences already italicized, so he printed them in the regular font which is indicated here with: _The pirates then went to +Hispaniola+._ Superscripts are indicated like this: S^{ta} Maria. Numerically-tagged footnotes are in the FOOTNOTES: section near the end of the text. * * * * * [Illustration] [Illustration: PLOWLAND HOUSE, HOLDERNESS, E.R. YORKSHIRE.] 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. BY HENRY HAWKES SPINK, JUN. (_A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England_). LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD. YORK: JOHN SAMPSON. 1902. [_All rights reserved._] “_Veritas temporis filia._ Truth is the daughter of Time, especially in this case, wherein, by timely and often examinations, matters of greatest moment have been found out.”——SIR EDWARD COKE (_the Attorney-General who prosecuted the eight surviving conspirators_). “Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on Wrong.”——LORD ACTON. “History, it is said, revises the verdicts of contemporaries, and constitutes an Appeal Court nearest to the ordeal of heaven.”——DR. JAMES MARTINEAU. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LINDLEY SECOND VISCOUNT HALIFAX