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A93674	Englands warning-peece or the history of the gun-powder treason: inlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published. Whereunto is annexed The Act of Parliament for publick thanksgiving upon the fifth day of November yearly. / By T.S.	Spencer, Thomas, fl. 1658.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4961; Thomason E2255_2; ESTC R210140	32,617	87

by the two Bulls or Letters of Pope Clement the eight See the Hist of France P. 1196. they ought not to have received the King into the Kingdome then by a greater reason being received the Pope would have him made away as if Kings Free Princes and States were to live but at the pleasure of the Pope The proditorious doctrine of the Josuits did likewise add much fuel to this fiery enterprize which was first made known and revealed by Cateshy to Thomas Winter of Huddington in the County of Worcester when they met together at London who gave his consent and approbation thereunto And shortly after went into Flanders to negotiate with Baldwine the Jesuite with the Constable with Owen with Faewkes and also with Sir William Stanley who for many yeers together did lurk in those parts of the Netherlands that were under the obedience of Albertus Archduke of Austria and Clara Isabella his Wife the Daughter of the King of Spaine and durst not come into England For this was that Sir William Stanley who contrary to his Oath did treacherously deliver up D●venter a rich Town in Oven Yssell to the King of Spaine which had bin gotten a little before by Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester sent into the low Countries with some considerable Forces by Queen Elizabeth to aid the Dutch against the Spaniard but the Town was regained shortly after by the States of Holland He that is false to God will be false to Man and when opportunity serves will keep no faith with them that are no better then Heretikes in his account When Winter had conferred with the parties aforesaid and had imparted to them so much of his minde as he thought convenient at this time he returned back into England and brought with him Guide Fawks a very desperate Souldier and a monstrous instrument of mercilese cruelty And when they came to London they met with Robert Catesby Thomas Percy and John Wright at a house behinde St. Clements Church without Temple Bar where they spake of doing some thing but first they thought it fit to take an Cath of secrecie which they gave to each other upon a Primer the contents whereof here followeth 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 untill the rest shall give you leave And for their further confirmation they went into a more private chamber and there heard Mass and received the blessed Sacrament at the hands of William Gerrard a Priest who told them that it was better that some Innocents did perish with the nocent for the advantage of the Catholicks rather then the service should quaile the necessitie of time and occasion so requiring it And now did Catesby and Winter disclose the business to the rest wherefore they took the Oath which they all approved And Percy by the Authority of the rest was sent to take some house or lower roome either under or near the Parliament house to lay in the Powder which was to be bought by Winter and Fawkes Now while this Cockatrices Egge horrible Treason was hatching to the end that it might succeed well and breake forth into a Basiliske a flying and fire-breathing Serpent whose deadly eye might destroy both Prince and People in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the Papists gave themselves to their devotions and Prayers both at home and abroad For although the vulgar sort knew not of the particulars of the damnable design yet they had a general notion and confused knowledge of some thing to be done in the Parliament for the good of their Church And the Priests and Jesuits themselves did usually conclude their Masses and oblatory Sacrifices with these verses made by Henry Garnet Provincial over the Jesuits here in England Gentem auferte perfidam credentium de finibus Vt Christo laudes debitas persolvamus alacriter Which I English thus Even from the Coasts of faithfull men A faithless Nation take That chearfully to Christ our Lord We may due praises make And others prayed See Speed his Chron. as they were taught thus Prosper Lord their paines that labour in thy cause day and night let Heresie vanish away like smoake let the memory of it perish with a crack like the ruine and fall of a broken house Hereby alluding to their working in the Myne the mounting smoak of the Powder and the violent fall of the Parliament house In Flanders Baldwine was not slack to improve his Interest in Heaven for the speeding of their great errand At Rome Parsons the Jesuite being Governor of that Colledge which was founded by Pope Gregorie the thirteenth for English Fugitives and discontented malignants did give order to the Students of the house after their ordinary devotions were ended to pray for some extraordinary thing Orate proconversione Turcae One while they must pray for the conversion of the Turke some two or three daies together Another while they must pray as long for the Captives in England meaning the Papists that were in Prison But for two moneths together before the day appointed for the execution of their bloodie design Orate pro Captivis in Anglia Parsons commanded them to pray for the intention of their Father Rector which made the Students of the house wonder what their Father Rectors intention should be Orate pro intentione Patris Rectoris They had set formes of Prayer for these things made by Parsons But when they heard of a Barbarous Treason discovered in England sixteen of them forsook the Colledge and came over the Alpes down into France waiting for a better season to return home with some of which who forsook the Church of Rome and embraced the reformed Religion I had some conference The King began his Raign as we have shewed upon the foure and twentieth day of March the last day of the year according to the date of the Lawyers in the yeer of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and two And in the Summer Quarter following and in part of the Autumnal the Plague in London made a lamentable ravage upon mankind the weekly Bills of mortalitie I very well remember were exceeding great But when it pleased God to lighten his hand and relent the violence of his devouring Angel against the people of that City giving good hope that the infection was come to a period then did his Majesty call his Parliament upon the nineteenth day of the next March and upon the seventh of Iuly concluded the first Sessions thereof and adjourned it to the seventh of February in the second yeer of his raign And before that time came he did adjourne it again to the sift of November in the third yeer of his raign and in the yeer of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five which proves a most

matter as doth appear by his depositions immediatly following The true Copy of the Depositions of Guido Fawkes taken in the presence of the Counsellors whose names are under written I confess that a practice in general was first broken unto me against his Majesty for releif of the Catholick canse and not invented or propounded by my self And this was first propounded unto me about Easter last was twelve moneth beyond the Seas in the Low Countries of the Archdukes obeisance by Thomas Winter who came thereupon with me into England and there we imparted our purpose to three other Gentlemen more namely Robert Catesby Thomas Peter and John Wright who all five consulting together of the means how to excute the same and taking a vow among our selves for secre●●e Catesby pro pounded to have it performed by Gunpowder and by making a Myne under the upper-house of Parliament which place we made choice of the rather because Religion having been unjustly suppressed there it was fittest that Justioce and Punishment should be executed there This being resolved amongst us Thomas Percy hired and house at Westminster for that purpose near adjoyning to the Parliament house and there we begun to make our Myne about the eleventh of December 1604. The five that first entred into the work were Thomas Percy Robert Catesby Thomas Winter John Wright and my self and soon after me took another unto us Christopher Wright having sworn him also and taken the Sacrament for secresie When we came to the every foundation of the wall of the house which was about three yards thick and found it a matter of great difficulty we took unto us another Gentleman Robert Winter in like manner with Oath and Sacrament as aforesaid It was about Christmas when we brought our Myne unto the Wall and about Candlemas we had wrought the Wall half through And whilst they were in working I stood as Sentinell to discry any man that came neer whereof I gave them warning and so they ceased untill I gave notice again to proceed All we seven lay in the house and had shot and Powder being resolved to die in that place before we should yeeld or be taken As they were working upon the Wall they heard a rushing in a Cellar of removing of Coales whereupon we feared we had been discovered and they sent to go to the Cellar who finding that the Coales were a selling and that the Cellar was to be let viewing the commodity thereof for our purpose Percy went and hired the same for yeerly rent We had before this provided and brought into the house twenty Barrels of Powder which we removed into the Cellar and covered the same with Billet and Fagots which were provided for that purpose About Easter the Parliament being prorogued till October next we dispersed our selves and I returned into the Low Countries by advice and direction of the rest aswell to acquaint Owen with the Particulars of the plot as also least by my longer stay I might have grown suspitious and so have come in question In the mean time Percy having the Key of the Cellar laid in more Powder and Wood into it I returned about the beginning of September next and then receiving the Key again of Percy we brought in more Powder and Billers 〈◊〉 cover the same again and so I went fer a time into the Country till the 30 of October It was further resolved amongst us that the fame day that this Act should have been performed some other of our confederates should have surprised the person of the Lady Elizabeth the Kings eldest Daughter who was kept in Warwickshire at the Lord Haringtons house and presently have proclaimed her Queen having a project of a Proclamation ready for that purpose wherein we made no mention of alteration of Religion nor would have we avowed the deed to beours untill we should have had power enough to make our party good and then we would have avowed both Concerning Duke Charles the Kings second Son we had sundry consultations how to seise on his person But because we found no means how to compass it the Duke being kept neer London where we had not forces enough we resolved to serve our turne with the Lady Elizabeth Commiss Edward Somer set Earle of Worcester Charles Howard Earle of Notingham Thomas Howard Earle of Suffolke Charles Blont Earle of Devonshire Henry Howard Earle of Northampton Robert Cicil Earle of Salisbury Lord Treasurer John Erskeine Earle of Marre William Constable Viscount Dunbar Sir Fohn Popham Sir Edward Cook Sir William Waad But here let us leave Fawkes in a lodging fit for such a guest and taking time to advise upon his conscience and turne our selves to that part of the History which concernes the fortune of the rest of his partakers in this abominable Treason The news was no soouer spread abroad that morning which was upon a Tuesday the fifth of November and the first day designed for that Session of Parliament but some of those conspirators namely Winter and the two Wrights brothers thought it high time to hasten out of the Town for Catesby was gone the night before and Percy at foure of the Clock in the morning the same day of the discovery and all of them held their course with more haste then good speed to Dunchurch upon Dun more in the County of Warwick where Sir Everard Digby and his complices had appointed a match of Hunting that under pretence of that sport they might come together without any suspition though his minde was Nimrod-like more bent upon the blood of reasonable men then brute beasts For when the terrible blow had been given at the Parliament house whereby the King and all the issue Male of the Seed Royal had been destroyed their purpose was to surprize the person of the Lady Elizabeth the Kings eldest Daughter who kept her residence at Combe the Lord Harringtons house by Coventry to proclaim her Queen to provide an Husband for her some Prince of the Popish prosession the Castilian was most likely to have the refusal for to him at this time they were much devoted and so England might have been made a province to Spain Notwith standing all their care to take a solemn Oath receive the blessed Sacrament for the observation of secresie yet asthe day appointed for the execution of their barbarous cruelty did draw nigh so did the knowlede thereofencrease among the common fort of their own faction who did measure their joy by their hopes of good success For upon this Tuesday morning early the Papists of Rowington came to Warwick to Ring the Bells and when Master Themas Hall the reverend Pastor of the Church heard who they were that were ringing he gave command that the Bells should cease saying that their meaning was Popish and superstitious but within two daies he sound it to be proditorious and merciless Let not any man sing a triumph before the victory least he be brought to his P●linody or