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
[Footnote 86:——The beautiful and pathetic “Lament,” so well known to
Scotsmen under the title of “The Flowers of the Forest,” was penned to
express “the lamentation, mourning, and woe” that filled the historic land
of “mountain and of flood,” on the tidings reaching “brave, bonnie
Scotland” of the “woeful fight” of Flodden Field. At the funeral of that
gallant soldier and fine Scotsman, the late General Wauchope, of the
Regiment known as the Black Watch, the pipers played this plaintive air,
“The Flowers of the Forest.” Who does not hope that those funereal strains
may be prophetic that, through the power of far-sighted wisdom, human
sympathy, and the healing hand of Time, there may be a reconciliation as
real and deep and true betwixt England’s kinsman-foe of to-day and herself
as there is betwixt herself and her kinsman-foe of the year 1513——the year
of Flodden Field!
See also Professor Aytoun’s “Edinburgh after Flodden,” in his “_Lays of
the Scottish Cavaliers_” (Routledge & Sons); also, of course, Sir Walter
Scott’s well-known “Marmion.”]
[Footnote 87:——It should be remembered that Baines says that Nichols, in
his “_Progresses of James I._,” describes Hornby Castle in Yorkshire, by
mistake, for the one in Lancashire.
The sunny, balmy, health-giving watering-place of Grange-over-Sands, built
at the foot of Yewbarrow, a pine-clad, hazel-loving fell, “by Kent
sand-side,” is in the ancient Parish of Cartmel; and, in connection with
the family of Lord Mounteagle, the following will be read with interest by
those who are privileged to know that golden land of the westering sun,
the paradise of the weak of chest.
About three miles from the Grange——so called because here was formerly a
Grange, or House, for the storing of grain by the Friars, or black Canons,
of the Augustinian Priory at Cartmel——is the square Peel Tower known as
Wraysholme Tower. In the windows of the old tower were formerly arms and
crests of the Harrington and Stanley families. A few miles to the west of
Cartmel were Adlingham and Gleaston, ancient possessions of the
Harringtons, which likewise became a portion of the Mounteagles’ Hornby
Castle estates. All this portion of the north of England abounded in
adherents of the ancient faith up to about the time of the Gunpowder Plot.
The Duke of Guise had planned that the Spanish Armada should disembark at
the large and commodious port of the Pile of Fouldrey, in the Parish of
Dalton-in-Furness, “North of the Sands.” This rock of the Pile of
Fouldrey, from which the port took its name, was not only near Adlingham
and Gleaston, but also near the Manor Furness, the seat of the elder
branch of the Prestons, from whom Mounteagle, on his mother’s side, was
descended.[A]]
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