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 FawkesSpink, Henry
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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
Spink, Henry
Gunpowder Plot, 1605; Monteagle, William Parker, Baron, 1574 or 1575-1622
“Lo, what my country should have done (have raised
An obelisk, or column to thy name;
Or if she would but modestly have praised
Thy fact, in brass or marble writ the same).
I, that am glad of thy great chance, here do!
And proud, my work shall out-last common deeds,
Durst think it great, and worthy wonder too,
But thine: for which I do’t, so much exceeds!
My country’s parents I have many known;
But saver of my country, thee alone.”
RECAPITULATION OF PROOFS, ARGUMENT, AND
CONCLUSIONS.
(1) The revealing plotter cannot have been Tresham or any one of the other
eight who were condemned to death in Westminster Hall; otherwise he would
have _pleaded_ such fact.
(2) The revealing plotter must have been amongst those who survived not to
tell the tale: that is, either Catesby, Percy, John Wright, or Christopher
Wright.
(3) Christopher Wright, a subordinate conspirator introduced late in the
conspiracy, was the revealing conspirator.
(4) Father Edward Oldcorne, S.J., was the Penman of the Letter.
(5) Thomas Ward was the diplomatic Go-between common to both.
_All these three were Yorkshiremen._
(6) Ralph Ashley was the messenger who conveyed the Letter to Lord
Mounteagle’s page, who was already in the street when the Letter-carrier
arrived.
_Perhaps a Yorkshireman._
(7) Mounteagle knew a letter was coming. Known to Edmund Church, Esq., his
confidant.
(8) Thomas Ward, on Sunday, the 27th October (the day after the delivery),
told Thomas Winter, one of the principal plotters, that Salisbury had
received the document; and on Sunday, the 3rd November, that Salisbury had
shown it to the King.
(9) Christopher Wright, who was at Lapworth when the Letter was delivered,
and within twenty miles of Father Oldcorne, saw Thomas Winter some little
time subsequent to the delivery of the Letter.
(10) Christopher Wright is said to have been the first who ascertained
that the Plot was discovered.
(11) Christopher Wright is said to have counselled flight in different
directions.
(12) Christopher Wright announced to Thomas Winter, very early on Tuesday,
the 5th of November, the capture of Fawkes that morning.
(13) Father Oldcorne’s handwriting to-day resembles that of the Letter; by
comparison of documents, certainly one of which is in Oldcorne’s
handwriting.
(14) Oldcorne was accused by the Government of sending “letters up and
down to prepare men’s minds for the insurrection.”
(15) Brother Ashley, his servant, was accused of carrying “letters to and
fro about this conspiracy.”
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