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
In 1578 the College of Douay was transferred by Cardinal Allen to Rheims
(or Reims), where it remained for twenty-one years, when it was
transferred back to Douay. Fathers William Pulleyn and Francis Ingleby
were educated at the College at Rheims (or Reims).——See “Order of Queen
Elizabeth,” dated last day of December, 1582, in Appendix _postea_ where
Reims is mentioned in connection with the popish missionary priests it
was then sending forth into the City of York.[A]
[Footnote A: Miss Catharine Pullein, of the Manor House, Rotherfield,
Sussex, courteously tells me in a most interesting letter, under date 13th
May, 1901, that from the _inq. post mortem_ the above-named Walter Pulleyn
died in 1580. That his son William, whose wife was a Bellasis, died before
his father, so that in 1580 John Pulleyn (the one mentioned in Peacock’s
“_List for 1604_”) was the young squire. In 1581 or 1582 John seems to
have married. He suffered from the infliction of fines for popish
recusancy, and appears to have left Scotton between 1604 and 1612.
(Scotton Hall is to-day (1901), I believe, owned by the Rev. Charles
Slingsby, M.A., of Scriven Hall, near Knaresbrough. The tenant is Mr.
Thrackray.)]
There is a tradition to this day at Cowthorpe (or Coulthorpe, as it is
pronounced by ancient inhabitants), near Wetherby, that Guy Fawkes was
wont to visit that old-world village (until recently so quaint from its
thatched farm-houses and cottars’ dwellings, and but little changed belike
since the days of “Good Queen Bess”).
This tradition is certainly probably authentic; for a Roman Catholic
family, named Walmsley, at that time lived at Cowthorpe Hall, a dignified
“moated grange” between the Nidd and the historic “Cowthorpe Old Oak.” Guy
Fawkes, possibly, many a time and oft, may have stabled his horse at the
old Hall when, after fording at Hunsingore the shallow Nidd, he traversed
the pleasant fields betwixt Cowthorpe and Ingmanthorpe, near Wetherby,
where dwelt the family of Roos, who were, as above stated, allied by
marriage to Guy’s friends, the Pulleyns, of Scotton.
Lastly; so intelligent a Yorkshire lad as was, beyond all doubt or cavil,
the son of Edward Fawkes and Edith his wife——the lad whose manly but
delicately-formed handwriting may be seen to-day by all who have the
privilege of obtaining a sight of the precious document fac-similed in a
well-known monthly periodical for November, 1901[A]——must have visited, I
opine, Ribston Park, between Knaresbrough, Hunsingore, and Cowthorpe
(where had been in mediæval times a celebrated Preceptory of the Knights
Templars, the record of whose deeds against “the infidel Turk” may have
fired Guy’s imagination from his earliest years). Moreover, Richard
Goodricke, Esquire, of Ribston, had married Clara Norton, one of
chivalrous, old Richard Norton’s daughters, of Norton Conyers; and this,
to the popish youth, would be an additional attraction for going to view
Ribston Hall, its chapel, park, and pale.[B]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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