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
Dr. Abbott’s “_Antilogia_” confirms Jardine’s report of Tesimond’s
denunciation, _although Foley most improperly omits it_.]
[Footnote 152:——The diverse demeanour on this critical occasion of these
two Jesuits (both natives of the same City, most probably, and
fellow-scholars in the then recently re-founded Grammar School belonging
to York Minster) is very striking, and reminds one of the following
sagacious remark of that clear writer, Dr. James Martineau: “In human
psychology, feeling when it transcends sensation is not without idea, but
is a type of idea.”——“_Essays and Addresses_,” vol. iv., p. 202 (Longmans,
1891).——Such feeling then is _mens cordis_——the mind of the heart.]
[Footnote 153:——Hindlip Hall, about four miles from Worcester, was built
on an eminence in 1572 and the following years of Elizabeth’s reign. It
had a large prospect of the surrounding country, and contained many
conveyances, secret chambers, and priests’ hiding-places, perhaps more
than any house in England. The old Hall of the Abingtons was pulled down
at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The present mansion was built
by the Lord Hindlip’s family, I believe. This demesne is one of the most
historic spots in the kingdom, owing to its memorable associations with
Fathers Garnet and Oldcorne, Garnet having left Coughton at the request of
Oldcorne, in December, 1605. The two Jesuits were nourished, after
Salisbury instituted his search, during seven days, seven nights, and some
odd hours, mainly by broth and other warm drinks, conveyed to them through
a quill or reed passed “through a little hole in a chimney that backed
another chimney into a gentlewoman’s chamber.” Doubtless Mrs. Abington and
Miss Anne Vaux (the devoted friend of Father Garnet, who, along with
Brother Nicholas Owen, accompanied him to Hindlip) had administered this
food to the two famishing Jesuits detained in durance.]
[Footnote 154:——Father Garnet’s house in Thames Street, London, had been
broken up, this place of Jesuit sojourning having become known to the
Government. Consequently, Garnet, at the beginning of September, 1605,
went down to Gothurst, in Buckinghamshire, the seat of Sir Everard and
Lady Digby.
Christopher Wright, it will be remembered, quitted his lodging near Temple
Bar, on October the 5th, and, I opine, then went down to Lapworth, or
Clopton, near Stratford-on-Avon. Catesby was born at Lapworth.
It will be remembered that the Ardens, the relatives of Shakespeare’s
mother, were allied to the Throckmortons, and therefore to Francis
Throckmorton, the friend of Mary Queen of Scots. It is a remarkable
coincidence that the great dramatist was, through both the Ardens and the
Throckmortons, connected with those whose quartered remains he may have
had in his mind’s eye (in addition to those of the Gunpowder conspirators)
when in 1606, in “Macbeth,” he writ of “the hangman’s bloody hands.”
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