Roger Manners--A pilgrimage--Harrowden--Catesby informs Sir
Everard of the Conspiracy--Scriptural precedents--Other
Gunpowder Plots--Mary Queen of Scots, Bothwell and
Darnley--Pretended Jesuit approval 97-113
CHAPTER VII.
A Latin Book--Immoderate friendships--Principles--Second-hand
approval--How Catesby deceived Garnet--He deceived his
fellow-conspirators--A liar 114-129
CHAPTER VIII.
Garnet's unfortunate conversation with Sir Everard--Garnet's
weakness--How Garnet first learned about the Plot--Secresy of
the Confessional--Catesby and the Sacraments--Catesby a
Catholic on Protestant principles--Could Garnet have saved
Sir Everard?--Were the conspirators driven to
desperation?--Did Cecil originate the Plot? 130-148
CHAPTER IX.
Financial aspects of the Gunpowder Plot--Sir Everard's
relations to his wife--Little John--Secret room at
Gothurst--Persecution of Catholics in Wales--The plan of
Campaign--Coughton--Guy Fawkes--His visit to Gothurst 149-168
CHAPTER X.
White Webbs--Baynham's Mission--All-Hallows at Coughton--All
Souls at Gothurst--An unwelcome Guest--The remains of
feudalism--Start from Gothurst--Arrival at Dunchurch--What
was going on in London--Tresham--The hunting-party--A
card-party--Arrival of the fugitives--The discovery in
London--The flight 169-191
CHAPTER XI.
Catesby lies to Sir Everard--Expected help from Talbot--The
hunting-party repudiates the conspirators--The future Earl of
Bristol--The start--Warwick--Norbrook--Alcester--Coughton--
Huddington--Talbot refuses to join in the Insurrection--Father
Greenway--Father Oldcorne--Whewell Grange--Shadowed--No
Catholics will join the conspirators--Don Quixote 192-218
CHAPTER XII.
Holbeche House--Sir Everard deserts--Sir Fulke Greville--The
Hue-and-Cry--Hunted--In cover--Caught--Journey to
London--Confiscation--The fate of the conspirators at
Holbeche--The Archpriest--Denunciations--Letter of Sir
Everard--Confession 219-236
CHAPTER XIII.
Threats of torture--Search at Mrs Vaux's house--Lady Digby's
letters to Salisbury--Sir Everard to his wife--Sir Everard
writes to Salisbury--Death of Tresham--Poem--Examinations 237-251
CHAPTER XIV.
Father Gerard's letter to Sir Everard--Sir Everard exonerates
Gerard--Sir Everard's letter to his sons 252-267
CHAPTER XV.
The trial--Appearance of the prisoners from different points
of view--Sir Edward Philips--Sir Edward Coke--His description
of the punishment for High Treason--Sir Everard's
speech--Coke's reply--Earl of Northampton--Lord
Salisbury--Sentence 268-288
CHAPTER XVI.
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