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
Fawkes was “a man of great piety, of exemplary temperance, of mild and
cheerful demeanour, an enemy of broils and disputes, a faithful friend,
and remarkable for his punctual attendance upon religious observances.”
His society was “sought by all the most distinguished in the Archdukes’
camp for nobility and virtue.”——Quoted by Jardine in his “_Narrative_,” p.
38.
How sad to think that such a man should have so missed his way in the
journey of life as to become so demoralized as to join in the Gunpowder
Treason Plot; nay, _in intention_, to be the most deadly agent in that
Plot. What can have caused, in the final resort, such a missing of his
way, and have wrought such dire demoralization? Echo answers what?
Yet nothing more clearly shows that Guy Fawkes deserved all the punishment
he got than the fact that he returned to his post in the cellar, where the
thirty-six barrels of gunpowder were, after no less than _three_ distinct
warnings that the Government had intelligence of the Plot. One warning was
given him on Monday, the 28th October, at White Webbs, by Thomas Winter; a
second, on Sunday night, the 3rd November, by Thomas Winter, after the
delivery of the Letter to the King; and the third, on Monday, the 4th
November, after the visit to the cellar of the Earl of Suffolk and Lord
Mounteagle, of which visit Fawkes informed Thomas Percy.——See Lingard’s
“_History_.”
Copies of the three following Deeds given in Davies’ “_Fawkeses, of
York_,” will be read with interest. One of the Deeds is an “Indenture of
Lease;” the second, an “Indenture of Conveyance;” and the third, a “Deed
Poll,” whereby Dennis and Edith Bainbridge release all right to Dower in
Guy Fawkes’ real estate that he “heíred” from his own father, Edward
Fawkes; all the property was outside Bootham Bar, in the suburbs of York.
In “_The Connoisseur_,” for November, 1901, is given a fac-simile of the
“Conveyance.” Thomas Shepherd Noble, Esq., of Precentor’s Court, York, one
of York’s most respected citizens, saw these Deeds sixty years ago in
York, he informed me on the 5th of November, 1901; and Mr. Noble then told
me he had no doubt that the fac-simile given in “_The Connoisseur_” of the
“Conveyance” is a fac-simile of one of the documents he saw _more than
half a century ago_.
The Pulleyns, Pulleines, Pulleins, or Pullens (for the family spelt their
name in all four ways) bore for their Arms one and four azure, on a bend
between six lozenges or, each charged with a scallop of the first, five
scallops sable: two and three azure, a fess between three martlets.——See
Flower’s “_Visitation of Yorkshire_,” Ed. by Norcliffe.
Flower gives the Pulleyns, of Scotton, first, and then the Pulleyns, of
Killinghall, near Harrogate.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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