The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorsip of the Document: Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy FawkesSimpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited; [etc.., 1902 - Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - 412 pages |
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... death - Christopher Wright mortally wounded - Percy grievously wounded- Dies a day or two afterwards Ambrose Rookwood wounded - Sir Everard Digby apprehended - Rest taken prisoners , except Stephen Littleton and Robert Winter , who ...
... death - Christopher Wright mortally wounded - Percy grievously wounded- Dies a day or two afterwards Ambrose Rookwood wounded - Sir Everard Digby apprehended - Rest taken prisoners , except Stephen Littleton and Robert Winter , who ...
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... death . In every conspiracy there is a knave or a fool , and sometimes , happily , " a repentant sinner . " Now it is well known that the contrivers of the Gun- powder Treason themselves suspected Francis Tresham- a subordinate ...
... death . In every conspiracy there is a knave or a fool , and sometimes , happily , " a repentant sinner . " Now it is well known that the contrivers of the Gun- powder Treason themselves suspected Francis Tresham- a subordinate ...
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... death of Queen Elizabeth , when he began to practise the religion which in 1580 his father , Sir William Catesby , had embraced or re - embraced , and for which the latter had suffered imprisonment and heavy fines , Robert Catesby " was ...
... death of Queen Elizabeth , when he began to practise the religion which in 1580 his father , Sir William Catesby , had embraced or re - embraced , and for which the latter had suffered imprisonment and heavy fines , Robert Catesby " was ...
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... death before the year 1602 , and at the time of the Plot his home seems to have been with his mother , the Dowager Lady Catesby , at Ashby St. Legers in the County of Northampton , the family ancestral seat . For in 1602 he had sold his ...
... death before the year 1602 , and at the time of the Plot his home seems to have been with his mother , the Dowager Lady Catesby , at Ashby St. Legers in the County of Northampton , the family ancestral seat . For in 1602 he had sold his ...
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... death " to ( what to them ) was " dishonour , " none has left nobler memories . than this self - sacrificing , exalted soul . ( 26 ) 1 At least 49 persons , priests and laymen , suffered death in York alone for the Pope's religion ...
... death " to ( what to them ) was " dishonour , " none has left nobler memories . than this self - sacrificing , exalted soul . ( 26 ) 1 At least 49 persons , priests and laymen , suffered death in York alone for the Pope's religion ...
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Abington Ambrose Rookwood ancient Anne Babthorpe brother Castle CHAPTER Christopher Wright Church Coughton County Dacres Earl Edward Oldcorne England English Esquire Everard Digby evidence fact Father Garnet Father Oldcorne Foley's Records Francis gentleman Gerard Givendale Gothurst Gunpowder Plot Gunpowder Treason Guy Fawkes Hall Henry Garnet Hindlip historic Honourable Howard Huddington Humphrey Littleton Ingleby James Jesuit John Wright King Knaresbrough knew knowledge Lady Lapworth Letter London Lord Mounteagle Lord Vaux Marmaduke Ward married Mary Ward Minster moral Morley Mounteagle's Mulwith Narrative Neville Newby Norton November October Oldcorne's Parliament person plotters Plowland Priest probably Pulleyn Queen Elizabeth reason reign Richard Robert Catesby Robert Winter Roman Catholic Salisbury says Scotton Shakespeare Sir Everard Digby Sir Thomas Stanley Tesimond Thomas Percy Thomas Ward Thomas Winter told Tresham truth unto Ursula Vaux of Harrowden Ward or Warde Warwickshire Welwick wife Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire yowe
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Page 269 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 235 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Page 222 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 398 - I go, and it is done : the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 16 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he had to her.
Page iv - But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as by want of Heart.
Page 220 - There is on earth a yet auguster thing, Veiled though it be, than Parliament or King." That auguster thing is the tribunal which God has set up in the consciences of men.
Page 245 - Elizabeth, by the Grace of God Queen of England Fraunce and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. the xxxiijrd, Betwene Guye Fauxe of Scotton in the County of Yorke...
Page 402 - ... as to those who may be lost, I confidently believe that our Heavenly Father threw His arms round each created spirit, and looked it full in the face with bright eyes of love in the darkness of its mortal life, and that of its own deliberate will it would not have Him.
Page 175 - Catesby took from his neck a cross of gold which he always used to wear about him, and blessing himself with it and kissing it, showed it unto the people, protesting there solemnly before them all, it was only for the honour of the Cross, and the exaltation of that Faith which honoured the Cross, and for the saving of their souls in the same Faith, that had moved him to undertake the business; and...