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 128:——Mr. Jackson, “mine host” of “the Salutation,” probably
meant between a week and a fortnight when he said “about a fortnight.”
“Many things had happened since then,” so Mr. Jackson might easily fancy a
longer time had elapsed than was really the case. For Kyddall’s evidence
shows that Christopher Wright was at Lapworth on the 24th October, and
that he did not reach London till the 30th (Wednesday). On Wednesday
Wright may have again called for his quart of sack or for the foaming
tankard of the nut-brown ale, partly with a view to ascertaining whether
or not any tidings had “leaked out” as to the Letter received by
Salisbury, though, as a fact, it was not shown to the King until Friday,
the 1st of November. Christopher Wright’s last visit to “the Salutation”
was, belike, what is styled nowadays “a pop visit.”
At Patrington, in Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, there is
to-day (May, 1901) an ancient hostelry known by the sign of the “Dog and
Duck.” At this house, I doubt not, both John and Christopher Wright full
many a time and oft had quenched their thirst and heard and discussed the
rural gossip of their day; for Plowland Hall was only about a mile distant
from the “Dog and Duck” and its good cheer. The “Hildyard Arms” and the
“Holderness” Inn, Patrington, may have been likewise, belike, favourite
haunts of theirs, for human nature is pretty much the same generation
after generation. And even our social habits bind us to the Past. What
thoughts crowd into the mind when one makes a visit to the “Dog and Duck,”
at Patrington, within a short walk of Plowland Hall!
It is possible that, between the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria,
Plowland Hall was reduced to smaller proportions than it had been in the
days of John and Christopher Wright. This was the case with Ugthorpe Hall,
the seat of the Catholic Ratcliffes, near Whitby, situate in a lovely
little dingle or dell amid the Cleveland Moors; also it was the case with
Grosmont House, the seat of the Catholic Hodgsons, near Whitby, situate
near and almost laved by the rushing waters of the Yorkshire Esk.]
[Footnote 129:——Father Henry Garnet knew John Wright, but, according to
Garnet’s testimony, he did not know Christopher Wright, a fact which alone
tends to show that the younger Wright was essentially a subordinate
conspirator; for certainly Father Garnet knew, more or less, all the
principal plotters, namely, Catesby, Thomas Winter, John Wright, Percy,
and even Fawkes, whom he once saw, and to whom he gave letters of
introduction when Fawkes went to Flanders, in 1605, to see Stanley and
Owen.]
[Footnote 130:——Father Hart was captured, along with Father John Percy
(alias Fisher, afterwards famous for his controversy with Archbishop Laud,
who could not “abide” the Jesuits), at the house of Lord Vaux of
Harrowden. Hart was banished for a time, but died in England, in 1650,
aged seventy-two.
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