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
Jesuit Father Edward Oldcorne a native of York——Oswald Tesimond
most probably a native of York likewise——Before going to Rheims
and Rome Oldcorne studied medicine.
CHAPTER X. 35
Further analysis of problem as to what conspirator would be likely
to “discover” Plot——A subordinate plotter——Introduced late into
Plot——One with good moral training at home in childhood——One
with trustworthy friend to act as Penman of warning Letter——One
with trustworthy friend who could act as Go-between with
Government——Christopher Wright, Edward Oldcorne, Thomas Ward.
CHAPTER XI. 37
Fawkes, in Confession, dated 17th November, 1605, says mine from
Percy’s house, adjoining Parliament House, begun 11th December,
1604, by five principal conspirators——Christopher Wright sworn
in to help in mining work “soon after”——Text of conspirators’
secret oath.
CHAPTER XII. 40
Christopher Wright’s family further described——Father: Robert
Wright, Esquire, of Plowland, Holderness——Mother: Ursula
Rudston, of Rudstons, Lords of Hayton, near Pocklington——Mother
akin to Mallories, of Studley Royal, near Ripon——Wrights akin to
Wards, of Mulwith, Newby, and Givendale, near Ripon, likewise——
Christopher Wright’s wife, Margaret Wright, possibly _née_
Margaret Ward, of the Wards, of Mulwith.
CHAPTER XIII. 45
Edward Oldcorne described——A native of St. Sampson’s Parish, York——
A student of medicine——Goes to Rheims and Rome for higher
studies——Ordained Priest——Joins Society of Jesus——In 1588 lands
in England——Stationed by Father Henry Garnet, chief of Jesuits
in England, at Hindlip Hall, four miles from Worcester——Hindlip
Hall home of Thomas Abington, Esquire, and the Honourable Mary
(Parker) Abington, daughter of the Lord Morley and sister to the
Lord Mounteagle——Oldcorne’s extraordinary influence in
Worcestershire——Styled “the Apostle of Worcestershire”——A man of
mental equipoise.
CHAPTER XIV. 48
“The Letter” critically examined.
CHAPTER XV. 54
Further critical examination of “the Letter.”
CHAPTER XVI. 56
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