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
“All Molto Mag^{co} Sig^{re}
il Signiore Guilio
Piccioli a
Venezia” [_i.e._, Venice].
(Endorsed) Fugitives.
Vol. cclxxi., No. 21.
_Cf._ also a letter of Father Richard Holtby, S.J., of Fryton, Hovingham,
North Riding of Yorkshire, to Father Parsons, dated 6th May, 1609,
ending:——“_I commit you to our sweet Saviour His keeping._”——Foley’s
“_Records_,” vol. iii., p. 9.]
[Footnote A: Guy Fawkes’ little patrimony was situate in Gillygate and
Clifton, then in the suburbs of the City of York.——See Robert Davies’
“_Fawkeses, of York_,” and William Camidge’s pamphlet, “_Guy Fawkes_”
(Burdekin, York).
Miss Catharine Pullein, of Rotherfield, Sussex, and Edward Pulleyn, Esq.,
of York and Lastingham, I have reason to believe, likewise belong to this
ancient family so long settled near Knaresbrough.——See Flower’s
“_Visitation of Yorkshire_,” and Glover’s “_Visitation_,” for a pedigree
of the family in the time of Elizabeth.]
[Footnote B: The Lady Mary Percy was niece to Francis and Mary Slingsby
(daughter of Sir Thomas Percy), of Scriven Hall, whose monuments are still
to be seen in the Knaresbrough Parish Church. Dr. Collins tells me that
“Sirsbie” was then “a Knaresbrough name,” and occurs in the Knaresbrough
Parish Church Registers of that period. The name “Sizey,” which is given
in Peacock’s “_List_,” under “Knaresbrough,” is probably the way “Sirsbie”
was pronounced, just as “subtle” is pronounced “su(b)tle.”]
[Footnote C: I incline to think that this Robert Chambers is the same as
the Robert Chambers mentioned in the “_Douay Diary_,” edited by Dr. Knox
(David Nutt); the name, Robert Chambers, appears as one of the students at
the English College, Rome. Gould and Batte (or Bates) were probably also
the names of priests who had been at this College. Corn may have been
Father Oldcorne, S.J., who came to England as a missionary in 1588 with
Father John Gerard; or he may have been Father Thomas Cornforth, S.J., a
native of Durham, and a great friend of Edward fourth Lord Vaux of
Harrowden, whose mother was Elizabeth Roper, a daughter of Sir John Roper
first Lord Teynham. Father Cornforth became a Jesuit in 1600. He was at
the English College at Rome, and came to England in April, 1599.]
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