Three movements against Government of James I. in the year of the Gunpowder Treason Plot (1605) distinct though connected (1) General wave of insurrectionary feeling on part of Papists by reason of penal laws of Queen Elizabeth—(2) Gunpowder Plot devised by Robert Catesby- (3) Rebellion in Midlands under leadership of Sir Everard Digby-Earl of Salisbury, his spies and decoys, may have fomented first movement but not others-Certainly not Reasons given why subordinate conspirator, Francis Tresham, cannot have " discovered" Plot-True principles laid down A "division of labour" in beneficent work of " discovering" Plot-Why? Probabilities of case suggest at least three persons engaged in "swinging round on its axis diabolical Who was Lord Mounteagle?—Ancestry-Father: Lord Morley -Title, Mounteagle, derived through mother, Honourable Elizabeth Stanley, heiress of William Stanley third Lord CHAPTER IV. Lord Mounteagle receives Letter 26th October, 1695, between CHAPTER V. In reign of Queen Elizabeth and early part of James I., "the castellated casties, moated halls, and gabled manor-houses” of old England "the sheltering, romantic roof-trees of those who clung" to the ancient Faith-Why?—Heury VIII.'s religious "change" and that of his progeny, King Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, unlikely to be acceptable "all on a sudden" to bulk of English people— Why?-Penal Legislation against Papists on part of Government-Jesuits in England, 1580-Campion and Parsons Three Classes of English Jesuits--Mystics, or Politicians Mystics and Politicians-The thirteen Gunpowder plotters well-disposed towards Jesuits-But plotters only Politicians. CHAPTER VI. Sir William Catesby (father of the arch-conspirator Robert PAGE 9 14 19 Government-Sir Thomas Tresham for more than twenty CHAPTER VII. All thirteen plotters "gentlemen of name and blood" (save Thomas Bates, a respectable serving-man of Catesby)Names of plotters as follow:-Robert Catesby (Ashby St. Legers, Northamptonshire)-Thomas Winter (Huddington, near Droitwich, Worcestershire)-Thomas Percy (Beverley, E.R. Yorkshire)-John Wright (Plowland, Holderness, E.R. Yorkshire)-Guy (or Guido) Fawkes (York)-Robert Keyes (Drayton, Northamptonshire)-Christopher Wright (Plowland, Holderness, E.R. Yorkshire)-Robert Winter, (Huddington, near Droitwich, Worcestershire)-- Ambrose Rookwood (Coldham, Stanningfield, Suffolk)—John Grant (Norbrook, Warwickshire)-Sir Everard Digby (Gothurst, near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire)-Francis Tresham (Rushton, Northamptonshire)--Four out of conspirators natives of Yorkshire: Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, and Guy (or Guido) Fawkes--Five others indirectly connected with it: Thomas Winter, Robert Winter, John Grant, Robert Keyes, and Ambrose Rookwood-Thomas Winter and Robert Winter, grandsons of distinguished Knight, Sir William Ingleby, of Ripley Castle, near Knaresbrough and Bilton-cum-Harrogate, Nidderdale, Yorkshire --John Grant's wife, Dorothy Grant, a grand-daughter of said Knight-Robert Keyes, a grandson of Key (or Kay), Esquire, of Woodsome, Almondbury, near Huddersfield. CHAPTER VIII. (same continued) CHAPTER IX. Jesuit Father Edward Oldcorne a native of York--Oswald PAGE 1275 26 32 CHAPTER X. Further analysis of problem as to what conspirator would be likely to "discover" Plot-A subordinate plotter-Introduced late into Plot--One with good moral training at home in childhood-One with trustworthy friend to act as Penman of warning Letter-One with trustworthy friend who could act as Go-between with Government--Christopher Wright, Edward Oldcorne, Thomas Ward. CHAPTER XI. Fawkes, in Confession, dated 17th November, 1605, says mine CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. Edward Oldcorne described-A native of St. Sampson's Parish, PAGE 35 37 40 45 48 CHAPTER XV. Further critical examination of "the Letter." CHAPTER XVI. .. Mounteagle "knew there was a Letter to come to him before it came"-Who was his " Secretary," Thomas Ward?Almost certainly brother-in-law to Christopher WrightProofs of this assertion-Entry of marriage in St. Michaelle-Belfrey's Church, York, of a "Thomas Warde of Mulwaith, in the p'ishe of Rippon, and M'rgery Slater, 29th May, 1579"-Entry of burial of "Marjory wife of Thomas Warde of Mulwith," in Register at Ripon Minster, about eleven years after, 20th May, 1590. CHAPTER XVII. .. Entry of christening of Edward, son of Christopher Wright, of in 1585. PAGE 54 56 59 CHAPTER XVIII. Proof that William Ward, a son of Marmaduke Ward, of 63 Inference drawn that Christopher Wright, Thomas Warde, |