What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original EvidenceGerard, John
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What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence
Gerard, John
Gunpowder Plot, 1605
Robertus Cecil, Comes Sarisburiensis, summus et regis
Secretarius, et Angliæ thesaurarius, clariss' patris
et de repub. meritissimi filius, in paterna munera
successor longe dignissimus;
Henricus, comes Northamptoniæ, quinq. portuum præfectus et
privati sigilli custos, disertorum litteratissimus, litteratorum
disertissimus;
Carolus comes Nottingamiæ, magnus Angliæ admirallus
victoriosus;
Thomas Suffolciæ comes, regis camerarius splendidissimus,
tres viri nobilissimi ex antiqua Howardorum familia, ducumq.
Norfolciæ prosapia;
Edwardus Somersetus, comes Wigorniæ, equis regiis præfectus
ornatissimus;
Carolus Blunt, comes Devoniæ, Hyberniæ prorex et pacificator,
Joannes Areskinus,[466] illustris Marriæ comes, præcipuarum in
Scotia arcium præfectus;
Georgius Humius, Dunbari comes, Scotiæ thesaurarius
prudentiss'
omnes illustriss' ordinis garteri milites;
Joannes Popham, miles, justiciarius Angliæ capitalis,
et justitiæ consultissimus:
Hi omnes illustrissimi viri, quorum nomina ad sempiternam eorum
memoriam posteritati consecrandam proxime supra ad lineam posita
sunt, ut regi a consiliis, ita ab eo delegati quæsitores, reis
singulis incredibili diligentia ac cura sæpius appellatis, nec
minore solertia et dexteritate pertentatis eorum animis, eos suis
ipsorum inter se collatis responsionibus convictos, ad voluntariam
confessionem adegerunt: et latentem nefarie conjurationis seriem,
remq. omnem ut hactenus gesta et porro per eos gerenda esset, summa
fide erutam, æterna cum laude sua, in lucem produxerunt, adeo ut
divina singulari providentia effectum sit, ut tam præsens, tamq.
f[oe]da tempestas, a regia majestate, liberisq. regiis, et omni
regno depulsa, in ipsos autores eorumq. socios redundarit.
III.
Conjuratorum Nomina, ad perpetuam ipsorum infamiam et tantæ diritatis
detestationem sempiternam.
Thomas Winter Thomas Percy
Robert Winter Robert Catesby
_Monachi_ { Henry Garnet John Winter John Wright
_salutare_ { John Gerrard Guy Fawkes Christopher Wright
_Jesu_ { Oswald Tesmond Thomas Bates Francis Tresham
_nom[=e]_ { Ham[=o] Everard Digby, K. Thomas Abbington
_ementiti_ { Baldw[=i] Am' Rookewood Edmond Baineham, K.
John Graunt William Stanley, K.
Robert Keyes Hughe Owen.
Henry Morg[=a]
IV.
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