AND

LORD MOUNTEAGLE'S LETTER;

BEING A PROOF, WITH MORAL CERTITUDE, OF THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE DOCUMENT:

TOGETHER WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE THIRTEEN GUNPOWDER CONSPIRATORS,

INCLUDING

GUY FAWKES.

BY

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.]

"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.

The book which your characteristic generosity has permitted me to dedicate to you wears a two-fold aspect. For it is as to one portion-and predominantly—an Inquiry taking the form of a discourse with questions and proofs, propositions and demonstrations. While as to another portion-but subordinately it is a History taking the form of a narrative of events, a relation of mental occurrences, a statement of concrete facts. Now these twain aspects will be found duly to play their respective parts in the course of the subsequent pages, in accordance with a selected order and method.

With most of the allegations of fact and the inferences therefrom, and with many of the assumptions and conclusions which this work contains, your Lordship will agree. From others you will disagree. Whilst in the case of a third class, it may be that you will deem a suspension of judgment to be the part which wisdom. and justice alike enjoin.

Speaking for myself, both as a man and as a native of our great County of Yorkshire-whose sons are at