THE HISTORY OF THE GUN-POWDER PLOT: WITH SEVERAL HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES PRIOR TO THAT EVENT, CONNECTING THE PLOTS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS ΤΟ Re-establish POPERY in this KINGDOM. Digested and arranged from authentic Materials, LONDON: Printed by N. Biggs, Crane-court, Fleet-street, 1804. ADVERTISEMENT. Notwithstanding the many detached pieces extant, concerning the Gun-powder Treason, there is no one that regularly details the circumstances attendant on that affair; and, to this day, the whole is treated by some as a fable, for want of proper evidence to establish the facts, the catholics having suppressed, as far as possible, every enquiry on this head. The following History is collected from almost every piece that has appeared on the subject; and particular care has been taken to introduce into the Biographical parts the material transactions relative to each person, in their proper places; and, in order more fully to explain the foundation of this plot, the subject is treated from its original source, namely, the Reformation, as begun by Henry the Eighth, with the proceedings of the Catholics under his successors, to the accession of James the First. The illustrations by Prints which accompany this Work, may be: depended on in point of authenticity, as the publication of the originals from which they are copied, are coeval with the times they repre sent. |