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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

your Children shall say unto you What mean you by this service Ye shall say It is the Sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over the houses the Children of Israel when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses And how careful good Mordecai was to continue the remembrance of that great Deliverance of the people of God from Destruction plotted and contrived by that wicked Haman appears Esther 9.20 c. where they did not only celebrate those present dayes of their Deliverance with Feasting and Gladness but he together with the rest of the Jewes ordained and took upon them and their Seed and upon all such as joyned themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep those days in their appointed time every year and that those days should be remembred and kept through their Generations every Family every Province and every City and that those days of Purim should not fail from amongst the Jews nor the memorial of them perish from their Seed c. And truly the remembrance of this great Mercy hath the more need to be revived at this time when some noted persons amongst us begin to lessen and decry it and wholly to lay aside the observation of that day though enjoyned by Act of Parliament and made Conscience of by most of the Godly People of the Nation I have also been induced the rather to make this brief Collection of the Story because though it be published by others yet it is in larger Volumes which are not every ones mony whereas for a small matter every family may get and keep this by them for the benefit and satisfaction both of themselves and children that so the Lord may not lose of his Glory nor they for want of information fail of their duty I shall conclude with that of the Psalmist Psal. 107.8 O that men would praise the Lord for his Goodness and for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men which is the hearty desire of Thine for thy spiritual Good Sam. Clarke Octob. 1657. THE DELIVERANCE OF OUR CHVRCH and STATE FROM THE Hellish Powder-Plot 1605. THe Plot was to undermine the Parliament House and with Powder to blow up the King Prince Clergy Nobles Knights and Burgesses the very confluence of all the flower of Glory Piety Learning Prudence and Authority in the Land Fathers Sons Brothers Allies Friends Foes Papists and Protestants 〈…〉 blast Their intent when that irreligious atchievement had been performed was to surprize the remainder of the Kings Issue to alter Religion and Government and to bring in a forreign Power Sir Edmond Baynam an attainted person who stiled himself Prince of the damned Crew was sent unto the Pope as he was a temporal Prince to acquaint him with the Gunpowder Plot and now to the Plot it self The Sessions of Parliament being dissolved July the 7th Anno Christi 1605. and prorogued to the seventh of February following Catesby being at Lambeth sent for Th●mas Winter who before had been imployed into Spain and acquainted him with the design of blowing up the Parliament House who readily apprehending it said This indeed strikes at the root only these helps were wanting a House for residence and a skilful man to carry on the Mine But the first Catesby assured him was easie to be got and for the man he commended Guy Fawkes a sufficient Souldier and a forward Catholick Thus Robert Catesby John Wright Thomas Winter and Guy Fawkes had many meetings and conferences about this business till at last Thomas Percy came puffing in to Catesby's Lodging at Lambeth saying What Gentlemen shall we alwaies be talking and never do any thing You cannot be ignorant how things proceed To whom Catesby answered that something was resolved on but first an Oath for secresie was to be administred for which purpose they appointed to meet some three days after behind Saint Clements Church beyond Temple-Bar where being met Percy professed that for the Catholick cause himself would be the man to advance it were it with the slaughter of the King which he was there ready to undertake and and do No Tom said Catesby thou shalt not adventure thy self to so small purpose if thou wilt be a Traytor there is a Plot to greater advantage and such an one as can never be discovered Hereupon all of them took the Oath of Secresie heard a Mass and received the Sacrament after which Catesby told them his Devillish Devise by mine and Gunpowder to blow up the Parliament House and so by one stroke with the destruction of many to effect that at once which had been many years attempting And for case of conscience to kill the innocent with the nocent he told them that it was warrantable by the Authority of Garnet himself the superiour of the English Jesuites and of Garrard and Tresmond Jesuitical Priests likewise who by their Apostolical Power did commend the fact and absolve the actors The Oath was given them by the said Garrard in these words You shall swear by the blessed Trinity and by the Sacrament you now purpose to receive never to disclose directly nor indirectly by word or circumstance the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave The Project being thus far carried on in the next place the first thing they sought after was an house wherein they might begin their work for which purpose no place was held fitter than a certain edifice adjoyning to the wall of the Parliament House which served for a withdrawing room to the Assembled Lords and out of Parliament time was at the dispose of the Keeper of the place and Wardrobe thereto belonging these did Percy hire for his Lodgings entertaining Guy Fawkes as his man who changing his name into Johnson had the Keyes and keeping of the Rooms Besides this they hired another house to lay in Provision of Powder and to frame and fit wood in for the carrying on the Mine which Catesby provided at Lambeth and sware Robert Ke●es into their Conspiracy whom he made the Keeper of those Provisions who by night conveyed the same unto Fawkes The appointed day for the Parliament being the seventh day of February It was thought fit to begin their work in October before But Fawkes returning out of the Country found Percys Rooms appointed for the Scottish Lords to meet in who were to treat about the union of the two Kingdomes whereupon they forbore to begin their work But that Assembly being dissolved upon the eleventh of December late in the night they entred upon the work of darkness beginning their Mine having tools afore-hand prepared and baked meats provided the better to avoid suspition in case they should send abroad for them They which first began the Mine were Robert Catesby Espuire the Arch-Contriver and Traytor and ruine of his name Thomas Percy Esquire akin to the Earl of Northumberland Thomas Winter John Wright and Guy