THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AND LORD MOUNTEAGLE'S LETTER; BEING A PROOF, WITH MORAL CERTITUDE, OF HENRY HAWKES SPINK, JUN. (A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England). LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD. YORK: JOHN SAMPSON. 1902. [All rights reserved.] LIBRARY Summer fund "Veritas temporis filia. Truth is the daughter of Time, especially in this case, wherein, by timely and often examinations, matters of greatest moment have been found out."-SIR EDWARD COKE (the Attorney-General who prosecuted the eight surviving conspirators). "Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on Wrong."--LORD ACTON. History, it is said, revises the verdicts of contemporaries, and constitutes an Appeal Court nearest to the ordeal of heaven."-DR. JAMES MARTINEAU. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LINDLEY SECOND VISCOUNT HALIFAX OF HICKLETON AND GARROWBY IN THE COUNTY OF YORK ONE OF YORKSHIRE'S MOST GIFTED AND DISTINGUISHED SONS THIS BOOK WHICH AMONGST OTHER THINGS TELLS OF SOME OF THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF CERTAIN YORKSHIREMEN IN THE DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE IS (BY KIND PERMISSION) MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. |