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
Winefrid Wigmore, already mentioned, was cousin, once removed, to Lady
Mounteagle, who was a daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, Sir William Wigmore,
Winefrid’s father, having married her aunt, Anne Throckmorton, a daughter
of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. Lady Catesby was another daughter.——See Note
30 _supra_.]
[Footnote 77:——As slightly supporting the contention that Lord Morley, the
father of Mounteagle, was related to, or at least connected with, the
Wards, it is to be observed that John Wright, the elder brother by the
whole blood of Ursula Ward, at the time when the Plot was concocted, had
his “permanent residence at Twigmore,” in the Parish of Manton, near
Brigg, in Lincolnshire.——Jardine’s “_Narrative_,” p. 32.——Now, in Foley’s
“_Records_,” vol. i., p. 627, it is stated that Twigmore, or Twigmoor, and
Holme “were ancient possessions of the Morley family.” The brothers John
and Christopher Wright were evidently called after two uncles who bore
these two names respectively.——See Norcliffe’s Ed. of Flower’s
“_Visitation of Yorkshire_” (Harleian Soc).]
[Footnote 78:——To-day (April, 1901) Newby-cum-Mulwith forms one township.
Givendale is a township by itself. Along with Skelton they form a separate
ecclesiastical parish. Skelton Church, in Newby Park, is one of the most
beautiful in the county, having been erected by the late Lady Mary Vyner,
of Newby Hall. The Church is dedicated under the touching title of
“Christ, the Consoler.”
Formerly the Parish of Ripon included no less than thirty villages. At
Skelton, Aldfield, Sawley, Bishop Thornton, Monckton, and Winksley there
were Chapels. Pateley Bridge also had a Chapel, but this was
parochial.——See Gent’s “_Ripon_.”——At Sawley, I find from the Ripon
Register of Baptisms, there was a William Norton living (described as
“_generosus_”) in 1589. He would be the great-grandson of old Richard
Norton, who by his first wife, Susanna, daughter of Neville Lord Latimer,
had eleven sons and seven daughters. They were (according to an old
writer), these Nortons, “a trybe of wicked people universally papists.” It
is reported to this day (Easter Day, 1901), at Bishop Thornton, by Mr.
Henry Wheelhouse, of Markington, aged 84, that the Nortons, of Sawley,
continued constant in their adherence to the ancient faith till well on
into the nineteenth century.
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