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
Eudaemon-Joannes, Father Andrew, S.J., 204.
Faukes, Guy or Guido, _alias_ John Johnson, his position and
character, 39, 262; his Spanish mission, 36; introduced to the
Conspiracy, 9, 64; passes as Percy's servant, 71, 77; keeps guard
while the others work, 66; discovers the "cellar," 70; has charge of
the premises, 77, 89, 142; visits Flanders, 91, 162; appointed to
fire the powder, 1; plans for his escape, 144; arrest, 123-128;
published confession, 169 _seq._, 268 _seq._; evidence falsified,
200; missing depositions, 191; tortured, 172, 200, 260; trial and
execution, 6, 260; fables respecting him, 261. _See also_
Conspirators.
Favat, Mr., Cecil's letter to, 5, 182.
Ferrers, Henry, sub-lets the house at Westminster to Percy, 61.
Fifth of November, a propitious day for the "discovery," 231; the
day solemnized, 5.
Floyde, Griffith, a government spy, 49.
French historians on the Plot, 141 _note_.
French official accounts of the Plot, 140, 141.
Fuller, Mr., M.P., 132 _note_.
Fuller, Thomas (_Church History of Britain_), 46, 225.
Fulman MSS., 169.
Gardiner, Professor Samuel Rawson, his favourable estimate of
Cecil's character, 20; on the Spanish pension, 22 _note_; repudiates
imputations against the government, 18; on the conspirators' plans,
82; on the Monteagle letter, 117; on the king's interpretation, 132
_note_; on the desire to incriminate priests, 4 _note_.
Garnet, Father Henry, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator,
5; his capture, 7, 166; lack of evidence, 7; trial and execution,
_ibid_.; his account of the conspirators' proceedings, 208; his
evidence against Catesby, 157; on the accession of James, 29 _note_.
_Gentleman's Magazine_, 52 _note_, 262.
Gerard, Col. John, 160 _note_.
Gerard, Father John, S.J., proclaimed as a principal conspirator, 5;
exonerated by historians, 237; his history of the Plot, 205; his
experiences in the Tower, 202; on the persecution of Catholics, 32;
opinion of the "discovery," 49; and of the official narrative, 129;
on the death of Percy and Catesby, 156 _note_.
Goodman, Godfrey, Bishop of Gloucester, on the origin of the
Conspiracy, 44; on the king's promises to Catholics, 29 _note_; on
the persecution of Catholics, 32; on the "discovery," 134 _note_; on
the death of Whynniard, 92 _note_; on Percy's intercourse with
Cecil, 151; on the death of Percy and Catesby, 154; his religious
views, 145 _note_.
Gowrie Conspiracy, the, 231, 232.
"Great Horses," 2 _note_.
Grange, Justice E., 148 _note_.
Grant, John, 37. _See also_ Conspirators.
Green, Mrs. Everett, wrongly describes Owen as a Jesuit, 185 _note_.
Green, John Richard (_History of the English People_), 30.
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