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
He saieth his M^{rs} as he hath hard lyeth in warwick shere whear he
knoweth not for he hath not benn w^{th} his M^{r} that nowe is aboue a
senight.
(Endorsed) 5^{o} No. 1605.
The Ex of Robte Rokes M^{r} Rookwoode boy.
APPENDIX G.
STATE PAPERS DOMESTIC——JAS. I., Vol. xvi., No. 16.
The declarn of John Cradock cutler the vj^{th} of
November 1605.
He sayeth that M^{r} Rockwood whos father marryed M^{r} Tirwhyte mother
about the Begynyng of the last Som vacac dyd bespeke the puttyng of a
Spanyshe Blade off hys into a Sword hilte and appoynted the hylth to have
the Story of the passyon of Christ Richly Ingraved, and now w^{th}n these
Syxe dayes cawsed that hylth being enamlled and Rychly sett forth to be
taken of and the handle to be new wrought of clere gold and the former
hylth w^{th} hys story to be putt on agayne and delyvered yt unto m^{r}
Rockewood upon Monday last at xj of the Clocke at nyght at his Chamber at
m^{r} Mores and m^{r} Wynter a pp Gentylman of about xxx yeares or vpward
who lyeth at the Syng of the Docke an Drake beyond putrycke in the Strand
and ys a great Companyon w^{th} m^{r} Catesby m^{r} Tyrwhyt and m^{r}
Rockwood hadd a Sword w^{th} the lyke Story and was delyvered hym on
Sunday last at nyght but not so Rychly sett forth as the form for w^{ch}
he payed in all xij^{£} x^{s} pt about a quarter of a yeare past at the
bespeken thereof and the Rest on Sonday last and this term an other
Gentylman of that Cupany being a Blacke man of about xl yeares old bespake
a lyke Sword for the story & shuld pay vij^{ti} for yt gave hym x^{s} in
Ernest he ys yet out of Towne and the Sword remayneth w^{th} thys Exam
Christopher Wryght was often w^{th} thys M^{r} Rockwood at thys Exam
shoppe and he hadd the said Wryghte jugmet for the worcke and Syse of the
Blade.
Jo Cradock
Ex p
J. Popham
(Endorsed) Cradocke.
APPENDIX H.
GUNPOWDER PLOT BOOKS——Part I., No. 10.
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