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CHAPTER IV.

Lord Mounteagle receives Letter 26th October, 1695, between
"six and seven of the clock," at Hoxton, near London---
Opened by Mounteagle-Read by a member of his household,
Thomas Ward-Full text of Letter given-27th October,
Ward tells Thomas Winter, a conspirator, that Letter had
been received by Mounteagle-Had been taken to Robert
Cecil first Earl of Salisbury, Principal Secretary of State-
28th October, Winter repairs to White Webbs by Enfield
Chase, ten miles north of Westminster-Informs Catesby
that "
game was up"-Catesby says "would see further as
yet"-Guy Fawkes sent from White Webbs to view cellar
under House of Lords-Finds all marks undisturbed-Thirty-
six barrels of gunpowder, wood, and coal all ready for fatal
Fifth-Fawkes, returns at night safely-Thomas Winter
meets (or is met by) subordinate conspirator, Christopher
Wright-Fawkes captured early on Tuesday, November
5th-Christopher Wright announces to Thomas Winter
Fawkes' capture.

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
Catesby) and Sir Thomas Tresham (father of Francis
Tresham), fine old English gentlemen-Types of best
class of Elizabethan Catholic gentry-Both persecuted by

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Government-Sir Thomas Tresham for more than twenty
years pays for Fines equal in our money to £2,080 a year,
as a "popish recusant "-Sir Thomas suffers imprisonment
for at least twenty-one years after being Star-Chambered-
Such transactions account for phenomenon of Gunpowder
Treason Plot.

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
Tesimond most probably a native of York likewise-
Before going to Rheims and Rome Oldcorne studied
medicine.

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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
from Percy's house, adjoining Parliament House, begun
11th December, 1604, by five principal conspirators—
Christopher Wright sworn in to help in mining work
"soon after"-Text of conspirators' secret oath.

CHAPTER XII.
Christopher Wright's family further described-Father: Robert
Wright, Esquire, of Plowland, Holderness-Mother:
Ursula Rudston, of Rudstons, Lords of Hayton, near
Pocklington-Mother akin to Mallories, of Studley Royal,
near Ripon Wrights akin to Wards, of Mulwith, Newby,
and Givendale, near Ripon, likewise-Christopher Wright's
wife, Margaret Wright, possibly née Margaret Ward, of the
Wards, of Mulwith.

CHAPTER XIII.

Edward Oldcorne described-A native of St. Sampson's Parish,
York-A student of medicine-Goes to Rheims and Rome
for higher studies-Ordained Priest-Joins Society of
Jesus-In 1588 lands in England-Stationed by Father
Henry Garnet, chief of Jesuits in England, at Hindlip
Hall, four miles from Worcester-Hindlip Hall home of
Thomas Abington, Esquire, and the Honourable Mary
(Parker) Abington, daughter of the Lord Morley and sister
to the Lord Mounteagle-Oldcorne's extraordinary influence
in Worcestershire-Styled "the Apostle of Worcestershire❞—
A man of mental equipoise.

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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
Bondgate, Ripon, in Ripon Minster Registers, 6th October,
1589-Of Eliza, daughter of Christopher Wright, of
Newbie, 23rd July, 1594-Of Francis, son of Christopher
Wright, of Newbie, 12th July, 1596-Of Marmaduke, son
of Christopher Wright, of Skelton, 3rd February, 1601-
Thomas Warde, of "Mulwaith," in 1579-Thomas Warde,
of "Mulwith," in 1590-Inference of propinquity between
Christopher Wright and Thomas Warde, at least between
years 1589 and 1590 inclusive-Thomas Warde probably
in diplomatic service of Queen Elizabeth, under Sir Francis
Walsingham-Probably sent on mission to Low Countries

in 1585.

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CHAPTER XVIII.

Proof that William Ward, a son of Marmaduke Ward, of
Newby, had an uncle who lived at Court-Inference that
this was Thomas Ward, member of household of Lord
Mounteagle.

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Inference drawn that Christopher Wright, Thomas Warde,
and Lord Mounteagle were personally acquainted.

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