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
Yt is further ordered for ye porer sorte of them beinge at libertie to
have theire dyett at several houses kepinge certen dayes for theyre
repayre to evereye house with certen money allowed to everye one at ye
wekes end And yf any recusante dye a piece of money is bequeathed to ye
porest sorte to saye dirge for theire sowles for a xii moneth to be payde
weklye both to men and women tyll this money be spente And thus they lyve
untyll ye lyke comoditye fall agayne.
per me Robartum Weston.
(Endorsed) 20 April. Robert Weston.
[On p. 76 of Text, in Note 1 at foot of page, it is stated that the first
Lord Mounteagle’s mother was Lady Eleanor Neville, sister to Richard
Neville, the King-maker. But I find that, under “Stanley,” in Flower’s
“_Visitation of Yorkshire_,” Ed. by Norcliffe (Harleian Soc.), _the great
grandfather_ of Edward Stanley first Lord Mounteagle, namely, Thomas Lord
Stanley, is said to have married Eleanor, daughter to Richard Nevell Earl
of Salisbury. _Their_ son is given as George Lord Stanley; _his_ son as
Thomas Stanley first Earl of Derby; and _his_ son as Edward Stanley first
Lord Mounteagle, who married Elizabeth Lady Grey, daughter of Sir Thomas
Vaughan, and whose son was Thomas second Lord Mounteagle.
But the “_National Dictionary of Biography_” (under “Stanley Earl of
Derby”) says that Eleanor Countess of Derby (_née_ Neville) was the
_daughter_ of Warwick, the King-maker. So the “learned” must be left to
determine the truth upon the point.
Again; on p. 160 of Text, in Note at foot of page, I have stated that the
young Lord Vaux of Harrowden was a descendant of Sir Thomas More.
But I find that that strong-minded lady his mother, Elizabeth Dowager Lady
Vaux of Harrowden, was _only distantly connected_ with Sir Thomas More.
For she was descended from _Christopher_ Roper, a younger brother of
William Roper, who married Margaret More.
Hence, Christopher Roper is the ancestor of the Lords Teynham, of Kent,
who, I believe, conformed to the Established Church after “1715,” as did
many old English papist families.]
SUPPLEMENTUM IV.
AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO GIVENDALE, NEWBY, AND MULWITH,
ANCIENTLY IN THE CHAPELRY OF SKELTON, IN THE PARISH OF RIPON, IN
THE WEST RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK.
On Sunday, the 22nd day of April, 1901, it fell out that the writer found
himself sojourning in the good City of Ripon; a city which a few years
ago, calling its friends and neighbours together, kept, amid high
festival, the one thousandth anniversary of its own foundation: at Ripon,
around the time-honoured towers of whose hallowed Minster abidingly cling
memories, strong and gracious, of canonized Saints and beloved
Apostles.[A]
[Footnote A: St. Wilfrid, Archbishop of York and Apostle of Sussex
(634-709) and his friend St. Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht and Apostle
of Holland.]
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