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A65974	The tryal and execution of Father Henry Garnet, superior provincial of the Jesuits in England for the powder-treason collected by Roger Widdrington, a Roman Catholick, and by him addressed unto Pope Paul the Fifth, printed in Latin 1616 in his appendix to his Humble Supplication, p. 124, and thence translated. Now published to make it further evident, that it is no new thing for Jesuits to curse and ban, to justifie a lie.; Humillima supplicatio. Appendix. English. Selections	Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2087; ESTC R22947	8,090	8

THE TRYAL AND EXECUTION OF Father HENRY GARNET Superior Provincial OF THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND FOR THE Powder-Treason Collected By ROGER WIDDRINGTON a Roman Catholick And by him addressed unto Pope Paul the Fifth Printed in Latin 1616. in his Appendix to his Humble Supplication p. 124 and thence Translated Now Published to make it further evident that it is no new thing for Jesuits to curse and ban to justifie a Lie LONDON Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1679. To the Reader HAving observed that in one of the late Trials it did appear by one of the Witnesses that the Jesuits old flam is still alive in some of their mouths viz. that the Powder-Plot was but a trick of Cecil's as Ireland told Mr. Jennison to bring an Odium upon the Papists I have thought good to give here an account of the Trial and Execution of Father Garnet written by a Learned and Eminent Roman Catholick the Truth of which he had confirmed to him by many others of the same profession who were eye and ear witnesses of what he writes and which he addressed unto the Pope himself and therefore I presume he may be accounted by Papists a more impartial Relater then if he had been a person in other circumstances or had not told it the Pope to his face to keep him from being fallible in Sainting a Traytour for the Author had said but a few lines before that Garnet had been lately inserted into the Catalogue of Holy Martyrs in the English Martyrology made by one Wilson sometimes Scribe to Father Parsons in the English Colledge at Rome I confess I have sometimes wondred at the wit as well as the im●udence of those men who think they have finely excused themselves by saying that Cecil trapan'd them into that Plot. for that they were in it over head and ears the present Relation shews when as they might more truly have said that the Devil drew them into the Conspiracy as they said he discovered it which would have been the better excuse of the two by how much the Devil is a more subtle Seducer and so it will be the less imputation of reproach to have been out-witted by him but in laying the fault on Cecil they do thereby but prove themselves as weak as wicked and as much Fools as Knaves and so renounce that Darling attribute of their Order Upon this Narrative the Reader will I doubt not make many considerable Remarks as for instance 1. That it 's no new thing for a Jesuit to curse and ban himself to justifie a lie and therefore less to be wondred that they should die with a lie in their mouths now 2. That one Reason of their so doing is because they think the contrary cannot be prov'd against them or upon their Execrations of themselves will not be believed to be true 3. That they have a certain Doctrine of Equivocation among themselves how far and when it may be made use of which unless others knew too they cannot tell how far or when to trust them but if they did know the trick would become useless and ridiculous 4. That the Society is greatly improved since those times especially in the Forehead vein for here poor Garnet is said to have blush'd when found in a lie and to have confest his fault but his Successors had so much of the White that no red could be seen they are now got above such childish passions as our late Trials and Executions have given us abundant Testimony 5. That all Papists were not in the Plot Then as 't is hop'd they are not Now but what they might have been after the blow given we know not but as then 't was disown'd when it succeeded not so now deni'd that it may go on but I shall leave the Reader to make his own further Observation THE TRYAL AND EXECUTION Of Father HENRY GARNET c. FAther Henry Garnet being at that time Superiour-provincial of the Jesuits in England was in a Publick Court of Judicature held by many Peers of the Realm and those Privy Counsellours to our Serene King many thousands of men and among them many Roman Catholicks being present arraigned and condemned and afterward executed for being a contriver of or consenter to or at least privy to that most horrible Powder-Treason There were many proofs offer'd to the twelve Jury-men who by the English Custom are to pass their Verdict whether the Prisoner at the Bar be guilty or not of the Crimes whereof he is accused before the Judge may pass his Sentence by the King's Council and other Lord 's appointed by the King who sate upon the Bench which did prove the said Father Garnet guilty of contriving or consenting to or at least being privy to the aforementioned Treason And because it would be too tedious to reckon up in particular all those proofs which were taken and objected against him both out of letters written with his own hand and produced by the King's Council and also out of his own free Confession which he had before his Trial made unto the Lord's Deligates who examin'd him and sign'd with his own hand for which is very considerable he was not compelled to discover the truth by putting him to any kind of torture which yet is usual in all other Nations but they only took those things in writing which he of his own accord would confess And lastly out of the Testimonies of the Conspirators themselves and Mrs. Anne Vaux one very intimate and familiar with him all which are apparently to be seen partly in the Publick Records since printed by Authority and partly in the Answer of the Bishop then of Chichester now of Ely to Matthew Tortus who doth examine the matter with great accuracy Therefore I shall content my self to relate only some few things of many which I have heard confirmed to me by Roman Catholicks who were present at his Trial which he either was publickly convicted of or confessed himself in open Court And which may be abundantly sufficient for your Holiness to make a clear Judgment from them whether Father Garnet be to be accounted a true Martyr of Christ and to have suffered for righteousness sake or else a very Traytour and to have suffered for his own demerits or else being neither Martyr nor Traytor he were condemned of that Powder Conspiracy unjustly only and without sufficient Evidence First of all therefore there were very many proofs offered to the Jury which did seem to prove evidently that Father Garnet was privy to the said Conspiracy and therefore himself did in open Court before all present confess 1. That he had had some notice of the Plot in the general even out of Confession from Catesby who was the principal Conspirator when he came to Father Garnet to ask his advice whether it were lawful in any case to destroy the innocent together with the guilty which said Father Garnet at first I thought to