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
of Westmoreland and Lancashire, having married Sir James Leybourne, of
Cunswick; this lady afterwards married Thomas Stanley second Lord
Mounteagle, the father of her son-in-law, William Stanley third Lord
Mounteagle, who married her daughter, Anne Leybourne, and who was the
grandfather of Lord Mounteagle, who married Elizabeth Tresham. (9)
Cavendish impaling Keighley; William Cavendish first Earl of Devonshire
having married Anne Keighley, daughter of Sir Henry Keighley, of Keighley,
Yorks. (10) Keighley impaling Carus; Henry Keighley, of Keighley, having
married Mary Carus, daughter of Sir Thomas Carus, of Kirkby Lonsdale. (11)
Carus impaling Preston; Sir Thomas Carus, of Kirkby Lonsdale, having
married Catherine Preston, daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, about the reign
of Philip and Mary. (12) Middleton impaling Carus; Edward Middleton, of
Middleton Hall (who died in 1599), having married Mary, daughter of Sir
Thomas Carus, of Kirkby Lonsdale.[A]
Fittingly does that great master of English, Frederic Harrison, quote
approvingly, in his charming book, “_Annals of an Old Manor House_”
(_i.e._, Sutton Place, Guildford, the home of the Westons, and the
dwelling, for a time, of the above-mentioned Anne Dacres Countess of
Arundel and Surrey——that queenly Elizabethan woman), the words of a
historian-friend of his: “Sink a shaft, as it were, in some chosen spot in
the annals of England, and you will come upon much that is never found in
the books of general history.” The late Robert Steggall, of Lewes, wrote a
fine poem in blank verse on “the Venerable” Philip Howard Earl of Arundel
and Surrey, the husband of Anne Dacres. It appeared in “_The Month_” some
years ago.]
[Footnote A: The arms of Lord Mounteagle were az., between two bars, sa.,
charged with three bezants, a lion passant, gu., in chief three bucks’
heads caboshed of the second.
The title Morley and Mounteagle is now in abeyance——see Burke’s “_Extinct
Peerages_”——since the year 1686, the reign of James II.
The last Lord Morley and Mounteagle died without issue. The issue of two
aunts of the deceased baron were his representatives. One aunt was
Katherine, who married John Savage second Earl of Rivers, and had issue;
the other aunt was Elizabeth, who married Edward Cranfield.
The present Earl of Morley, Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords,
though a Parker, is of the Parkers of Devonshire, a different family from
the Parkers of Essex.]
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