to his Majesty The contents whereof follow MY Lord out of theleve I beare to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Theresore I would advise you as you fender your life to devise so me excuse to shift off your affendance at this Parliament For God and Man have toncurred to punish the wickedness of this time And thinke not nightly of this Aovertisement but retire your self into your Country where you may expect the event in safety For though there be no appeatance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament and yet they shall net see who burts them This Counsell is not to be contemned because it may doe you good and can doe you no barme for the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the Letter And I hope God will give you the grace to make good vse of it To whose holy profection I commend you The King no sooner read the Letter but after a little pause and then reading it over againe he delivered his judgement of it in such sort as he thought it was not to be contemned for that the style of it seemed to be more quick and pithie then is usual to be in any Pasquil or Libel the superfluities of idle brains But the Earle of Salisbury perceiving the King to apprehend it deeplier then he looked for knowing his nature told him that he thought by one sentence in it that it was like to be written by some Foole or Madman reading to him this sentence in it For the danger is past as soon as you have burnt the Letter which he said was likely to be the saysing of a Foole if the danger was past o soon as the Letter was burnt the warning behoved to be of little availe when the burning might make the danger to be eschewed But the King by the contrary considering the former sentence in the Letter That they should receive a terrible blow at this Parliament and yet should not see who hurt them joyning it to the sentence immediately following already alleadged did thereupon conjecture That the danger mentioned should be some suddain danger by blowing up of Powder For no other Insurrection Rebellion or whatsoever other private and desperate Attempt could be committed or attemoted in time of Parliament and the Authors thereof unseen except it were only by a blowing up of Powder which might he performed by one base knave in a dark corner whereupon he was move to interpret and construe the latter sentence in the Letter alleadged by the Earle of Salisbury against all ordinary sense and construction in Grammar as if by these words For the danger is past as soon as you have burned the Letter should be closely understood the suddainty and quickness of the danger which should be as quickly performed and at an end as that paper should be of blazing up in the fire tnrning that word of as soon to the sense of as quickly And therefore wished that before his going to the Parliament the under rooms of the Parliament house might be well and narrowly searched But the Earle of Salisbury wondring at his Majesties Commentary which he knew to be so farre contrary to his ordinary and naturall disposition who did ever sin upon the other side in not apprehending nor trusting due Advertisements of practises and perils when he was truly informed of them whereby he had many times drawn himself into many desperate dangers and interpreting rightly this extraordinary caution at this time to proceed from the vigilant care he had of the whole State more then of his own person which could not but have all perished together if this designement had succeeded He thought good to dissemble still unto the King that there had been any just cause of such apprehension And ending the purpose with some merry jest upon this Subject as his custome is took his leave for that time But though he seemed so to neglect it to his Majesty yet his customable and watchfull care of the King and the State still boyling within him And having with the blessed Virgin Mary laid up in his heart the Kings so strange judgement and construction of it He could not be at rest till he had acquainted the foresaid Lords what had passed between the King and him in private Whereupon they were all earnest to renew again the memorie of the same purpose to his Majesty as it was agreed that he should the next day being Saturday repair to his Highness which he did in the same privy Gallery and renewed the memory thereof the Lord Chamberlain then being present with the King At what time it was determined that the said Lord Chamberlain should according to his Custome and Office view all the Parliament houses both above and below and consider what likelihood or appearance of any such danger might possibly be gathered by the sight of them But yet aswell for staying of idle rumors as for being the more able to discerne any mystery the nearer that things were in readiness his journey thither was ordained to be deferred till the afternoon before the sitting down of the Parliament which was upon the Monday following At what time he according to this conclusion went to the Parliament house accompanied with my Lord Mountegle being in reale to the Kings service earnest and curious to see the event of that accident whereof he had the fortune to be the first discovered Where having viewed all the lower rooms he found in the vault under the upper house great store and provision of Billets Fagots and Coales And enquiring of Whyneard keeper of the Wardrobe to what use he had put those lower rooms and cellars he told him that Thomas Percy had hired both the house and part of the Cellar or vault under the same and that the Wood and Coale therein was the said Gentlemans own provision Whereupon the Lord Chamberlain casting his eye aside perceived a fellow standing in a corner there calling himself the said Percies man keeper of that house for him but was indeed Cuido Fawkes the owner of that hand which should have acted that monstrous Tragedy The Lord Chamberlain looking upon all things with a heedfull indeed yet in outward appearance but with a careless and rackless eye as became so wise and diligent a Minister he presently addressed himself to the King in the said Privy Gallery where in the presence of the Lord Treasurer the Lord Admiral the Earles of Worcester Northampton and Salisbury he made his report what he had seen and observed there noting that Mountegle had told him That he no sooner heard Thomas Percy named to be the possessor of that house but considering both his backwardness in Religion and the old dearness in friendship between himself and the said Percy he did greatly suspect the matter and that the Letter should come from him The said Lord Chamberlain also told That he did not wonder a little at the extraordinary great
worship the Devil that did hold it lawful or rather meritorious to kill Prince or people for quarrel of Religion the Papists only excepted who do palliate and cover all their perfidious practises with the fair pretext of conscience and the good of the Catholick cause When did the Bishop of Rome who is commonly called the Pope ever call any of these Priests and Jesuites in question that fled hence into Italy who were Fomenters of this damnable Conspiracy much less punished them for it Whatsoever is done in favor of the Church of Rome must be accounted well done though never so ill done His Holiness so called by an antiphrase and his Parasites will command bloody Massacres will commend Treason and Rebellion Pope Innocent the third who lived in the time of our King John and was his great and troublesome Enemy decreed an immortal war against the poor Christians that went under the names of Valdenses or Albigeans charging them with all kindes of Heresies because they blamed and detested the Vices and Errors of the Pope and his Clergy Many Princes are commanded by the Pontifical Authority to arme against them and the Croisado is preached against them as against Infidels See the History of France pag. 125. 131. This was in the year of our Lord a thousand two hundred and ten Simon Earl of Montfort is chosen General of the Army who enters into Languedoc and there besieges Bezeirs with such cruel success as having taken it the blood flowed by the loss of threescore thousand persons And when preparation was made for a new search to root out the remainder of them Lewis the ninth of France commonly called St Lewis would not give allowance to any further proceeding against them within his Dominions saying that they must be perswaded by reason and not constrained by violence For piety is a duty of man unto God over which worldly force hath no power Pope Sixtus the fifth mnde a Panegyrick Oration in his consistory wherein he did praise and commend the Divelish Fryer an excrement of Hell See King James his Apol. pag. 67 pa. 75. that murthered King Henry the third of France by sheathing a knife in the bottom of his belly Cardinal Richard Allen an English Fugitive being honored by the Pope with the degree of a red hat was not ashamed to publish in print an Apology for Sir William Starlies treason maintaining that by reason of Queen Elizabeth's excommunication and Heresie it was not only lawfull for any of her Subjects but they were even bound in conscience to deprive her of any strength which lay in their power to do And whether it were armies towns or fortresses of hers which they had in their hands they were obliged to put them in the King of Spain her Enemies hand she no more being the right owner of any thing But whatsoever the Cardinal saith the best policy is to be an honest man And Oldcorn that refined and sublimated Fryer preached Treason upon Treason and Rebellion upon Rebellion For after the discovery of this horrid intended Massacre and a little before notice was given to the Sheriff of the County of his hiding and for his apprehension at Henlip aforesaid he did there preach consolitary Doctrine to his popish Anditory exhorting them not to faint for the misgiving of this Enterprise nor think the worse thereof See King James his Premonition pag 127 128. that it succeeded not alleaging diverse Presidents of such godly enterprises that misgave in like manner especially that of St Lewis King of France who in his journey to the holy Land was taken prisoner by the Sultan of Egypt and the greatest part of his Army was destroyed by the Plague and thereupon exhorted and perswaded them not to give over but still to hope that God would bless their enterprize at some other time though this did fail By these demonstrations we may know the mind of all of that profession and what they would do if they had the power in their hands and were Lords over us When they want force of argument and sound reason to perswade us they will then use force of arms fire and sword treason and rebellion to destroy us which should rouse up our spirits and ingender in our hearts First a detestation of the bloody but cherlie and most ignoble practises of the Pope and his Adherents Secondly gratulation and thanksgiving to the most high God who hath hitherto compassed us about with songs of deliverance And lastly circumspection caution valour and vigilance for the time to come that we be not suddenly surprized and swallowed up quick of our implacable Enemies while we dally and play with Popery The Scorpion is not without a sting though he doth not always strike A Cain a Cataline a Catesby full of Malignity hating with cruel hatred will always be working some great mischief And therefore to our own safety and security our own diligence and sedulitie is evermore required Their thoughts are vain who think that their watching can preserve the City which God himself is not willing to keep And are not theirs as vain who think that God will keep that City for which they themselves are not carefull to watch The providence of the Almighty must be served with the use of lawful means In the Third YEAR of KING JAMES An ACT for a publicke Thanks-giving to Almighty God on the fifth day of November every Year FOrasmuch as Almighty God hath in all Ages shewed his Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States And that no Nation of the earth hath been blessed with greater benefits then this Kingdom now enjoyeth having the true and free profession of the Gospel under our most Soveraigne Lord King James the most Great Learned and Religious King that ever reigned therein inriched with a most hopeful and plentiful Progenie proceeding out of his Royal loynes promising continuance of this happiness and profession to all posterity the which many Malignant and Divellish Papists Iesuites nnd Seminary Priests much envying and fearing conspired most horribly when the Kings most excellent Majesty the Queen the Prince and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons should have been assembled in the Vpper-House of Parliament upon the fifth of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and five suddainly to have blown up the said whole house with Gun-powder an invention so inhumane barbarous and cruel as the like was never before heard of and was as some of the principal Conspitors thereof confesse purposely devised and concluded to be done in the said House that where sundry necessary and Religious Laws for preservation of the Church and State were made which they falsely and standerously term cruel Laws enacted against them and their Religion both place and persons should be all destroyed and blown up at once which would have turned to the utter rume of this whole Kingdom had it not pleased Almighty God by inspiring the Kings most excellent Majesty with a Divine spirit to interpret some dark phrases of a Letter shewed to his Maiesty above and beyond all ordinary construction thereby miraculously discovering this hidden treason not many hours before the appointed time for the Execution thereof Therefore the Kings most excellent Maiesty the Lords Spiritual and temporal and all his Maiesties faithfull and loving Subiects do most iustly acknowledg this great and infinite Blessing to have proceeded meerly from God his great mercy and to his most holy name do ascribe all Honor Glory and Praise and to the end this unfeigned thankfulness may never be forgotten but be had in a perpetual remembrance that all ages to come may yield praises to his Divine Maiesty for the same and have in perpetuall memory This joyful day of deliverance Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that all and singular Ministers in every Cathedral and Parish Church or other usuall place for common Prayer within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon the fifth day of November say morning Prayer and give unto Almighty God thanks for this most happy Deliverance And that all and every Person and Persons inhabiting within this Realm of England and the Dominions of the same shall always upon that day diligently and faithfully resort to the Parish Church or Chappel accustomed or to some usual Church or Chappel where the said Morning Prayer preaching or other service of God shall be used then and there to abide orderly and soberly during the time of the said Prayers preaching or other service of God there to be used and ministred And because all and every person may be put in mind of this Duty and be the better prepared to the said Holy Service Be it enacted by authority aforesaid that every Minister shall give warning to his Parishoners publikely in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before every such fifth day of November for the due observation of the said Day And that after Morning Prayer or preaching upon the said fifth day of November they read distinctly and plainly this present ACT. FINIS
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. They conceive mischeif and bring forth vanity Job 15.35 Who so is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord Psal 107 43. London Printed by T. N. for Tho. Pierrepont at the Sun in Pauls Churchyard 1659. TO The Courteous Reader AS time doth weare out the remembrance of actions most famous and worthy of marke so Historie the message of antiquitie doth bring back time with the wonderfull workes thereof to the knowledge of Posterity both for delight and benefit The memorial of this most prodigious Conspiracie which never had any fellow being almost obliterated and forgotten in many places of the land may be renewed revived and presented to succeeding generations by the use of this little Storie Little Books are fittest for little purses Such a one as this whose price I hope will never give just cause of repentance to the discreet buyer All that I desire by it is that the great preserver of man may have everlasting glory and our Nation his everlasting Protection Farewell Your Friend Tho. Spencer Englands Warning-peece OR The Historie of the Gunpowder Treason enlarged with some notable passages not heretofore published MAny and sundry were the Plots and Attempts of Treason against our most gracious Soveraign Queen Elizabeth of famous and ever blessed memorie Pope Pius the sifth cursed her and therefore Parrie and Savage would have stabbed her Somervil and Arderne would have killed her Squire Lopez the Jew would have poysoned her but they did all faile of their purposes for God Almighty blessed her and made her raign long and prosperous maugre the malice of all her Enemies both at home and abroad When the Pope and his welbeloved Sons falsely called Catholicks but truly Papists saw that no sorcerie could prevaile against her they did then cast about how they might serve their own turne and promote their own cause by her Majesties immediate Successor To this end Pope Clement the eight a little before her death sent two Bulls or Letters into England one after another wherein he did forbid any man to claim the Crown and take upon him the Rule and Government of the English Nation that would not conforme himself to the Church of Rome acknowledge the Supremacie of her head the Pope and stoop to his lure yea death was to be endured by his beloved Sons rather then such a one should be admitted that would tolerate any of the Protestant Religion And to debarr the King of Scotland of his right of succession he did liberally bestow upon him the disgraceful names of a Heretick a Schismatick an Apostate another Julian Such were the terrible words of his thunder Much about this time Robert Parsons the Jesuit wrote a Book of honorable descents and put it forth under the name of Dolmax wherein he did intitle the King of Spain to the Crown of England as being descended from Katharine the Daughter of John of Caunt Duke of Lancaster the fourth Son of our King Edward the third who was married to Henry the third King of Castile and Leon. And in another book he saith His Philopater Sect. 2 That it is the opinion both of Divines Lawyers That if any Christian Prince shal fall from the Catholick Religion and seek to draw others from the same he doth presently fall from all princely power and dignity Visib Monar lib. 2. cap. 4 And Sanders another bird of the same wing saith That the King that wil not submit himself to the authority of the Pope ought not to be tolerated but his Subjects ought to chuse another in his place assoon as may be These diplomatical and Jesuitical writings gave life and beginning to the greatest the rarest the vilest Treason that ever was invented plotted attempted against Prince and People famous throughout the world for the horrible infamy thereof the eternal shame of Poperie as shal be shewed in the course of our Historie Upon the soure and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand six hundred and two Queen Elizabeth a Princess full of happy daies but fuller of immortal Trophees of honor did change her corruptible Crown in this World for an incorruptible in Heaven and within four hours after her decease by the grave and wise Councel that she left behind her James the sixt of Scotland was Proclaimed King of England and Ireland at the Court-gate at Richmond which did much rejoyce the hearts of the godly people in England when they heard of it And in the sweet and pleasant moneth of May his Majesty made a safe arrival at London where he was received with great joy and acclamation The Princes of Europe did stand amazed and wondred when they heard that his Majesty had gotten the possession of two Kingdoms without the shedding of a drop of blood Many of them sent their Ambassadors and the King of Denmark who was brother to his Wife the Queen came in his own person to congratulate the greatness of his fortunes It was now a rare sight in London to see two Kings walke peaceably together in the streets His Majesty for some reasons did deferr his Coronation untill the twenty fifth of July In the meane while some turbulent and discontented spirits plotted a conspiracy and purposed to surprise the King and Prince Henry his eldest Son being instigated and perswaded thereunto by Watson and Clarke two Popish Priests who told them that the Act was lawfull for that the King was no King before he was Crowned The other persons of note involved in this Treason were Thomas Lord Grey of Wilton Henry Brooke Lord Cobham Sir Griffin Markham Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Edward Parham George Broâ—ke Brother to the Lord Cobham Bartholomew Brookesly and Anthony Copley All which were indited Sir Edward Parham was acquitted by the Jury the rest were found guilty and condemned George Brooke and Watson and Clarke the two Priests were executed All the rest were graciously pardoned by his Majesty at which example of mercy the condemned wished that they might sacrifice their lives to gain the love and favor of so merciful a Prince But clemency to offenders makes men bold to offend One Treason is past and a greater follows at the heeles thereof For in the same yeer the old Serpent the Devil doth put it into the heart of Robert Catesby of Ashby in the County of Leicester Esquire to destroy the King with Gunpowder by blowing up the Parliament house when his Majesty the Queen the Prince the Duke the choycest of the Nobility and Gentry were there assembled for doing the turne most proper to their places and degrees And this damnable device he did maintain to be holy and lawful upon this ground of reason That if
remarkable date by reason of this monstrous and never enough abhorred Treason This long time between the first and the second Session of the Parliament gave good leisure and liberty to those of the Conspiracy not only to make a large provision of Powder Fagots Billets Barres and whatsoever else they thought necessarie for the execution of their devilish device but also to travell into forraine Countries to visit their Friends and welwishers and to sollicite them for their aid and best assistance when need should require it Winter makes a journey to Valladolit in Castile and Fawkes returnes into Flanders to consult with Sir William Stanley and the rest and then goes over the Alpes to Rome to obtain the blessing of Pope Paul the sift and to take the Counsel of Father Parsons a bitter enemy to his own Country In the latter end of the Summer preceding their intended fatal sift of November they returne back into England and doe finde their Diabolical machination in a safe and secure condition The time for the sitting of the Parliament doth now begin to draw nigh and the Nobility and Gentry that had places in that high Court did make preparation to come up to London The conspirators likewise did make all the preparation they could to give them the blow even that blow that should have been the common ruine of us all Cursed may it be called or blessed or both cursed in respect of the intent but blessed for ever in respect of the event For when we were white for their harvest and ready to be cut down by them then even then did the Almighty by his gracious Providence bring to light and discoverie this infernal and prodigious Plot as shall be shewed in the next part of the History wherein I will follow the Original Carleton and Speed as others have done before me The Saturday of the week immediatly preceding the Kings return from his hunting exercise at Royston which was upon a Thursday ten daies before the Parliament the Lord Montegle Son and Heire to the Lord Morley being in his own lodging ready to goe to supper at seaven of the Clock at night one of his footmen whom he had sent of an errand over the street was met by an unknown Man of a reasonable tall personage who delivered him a Letter charging him to put it in my Lord his Masters hands which my Lord no sooner received but having broken it up and perceiving the same to be of an unknown and somewhat unlegible hand and without either date or subscription did call one of his men unto him for helping him to read it But no sooner did he conceive the strange contents thereof although he was somewhat perplexed what construction to make of it as whether of a matter of consequence as indeed it was or whether some foolish devised pasquil by some of his Enemies to scare him from his attendance at the Parliament yet did he as a most dutiful and loyal Subject conclude not to conceale it what ever might come of it Whereupon notwithstanding the lateness and darkeness of the night in that season of the yeare he presently repaired to his Majesties Palace at Whitehall and there delivered the same to the Earle of Salisbury his Majesties principal Secretary Whereupon the said Earle of Salisbury having read the Letter and heard the manner of the coming of it to his hands did greatly encourage and commend my Lord for his discretion telling him plainly that whatsoever the purpose of the Letter might prove hereafter yet did this accident put him in minde of diverse advertisements he had received from beyond the Seas wherewith he had acquainted aswell the King himself as divers of his Privy Counsellors concerning some business the Papists were in both at home and abroad making preparations for some combination amongst them against this Parliament time for enabling them to deliver to the King some Petition for toleration of Religion which should be delivered in some such order and so well backed as the King should be loth to refuse their requests like the sturdy Beggars craving almes with one open hand but carrying a stone in the other in case of refusal And therefore did the Earle of Salisbury conclude with the Lord Montegle that he would in regard of the Kings absence impart the same Letter to some more of his Majesties Councell whereof my Lord Mountegle liked well only added this by way of protestation that whatsoever the event hereof might prove it should not be imputed to him as proceeding from too light and too suddain an apprehension that he delivered this Letter being only moved thereunto for demonstration of his ready devotion and care for preservation of his Majesty and the State And thus did the Earle of Salisbury presently acquaint the Lord Chamberlaine with the said Letter Whereupon they two in the presence of the Lord Mountegle calling to minde the former intelligence already mentioned which seemed to have some relation with this Letter The tender care which they ever carried to the preservation of his Majesties person made them apprehend that some perillous attempt did thereby appear to be intended against the same which did the more neerly concern the said Lord Chamberlain to have a care of in regard that it doth belong to the charge of his Office to oversee aswell all places of Assemblie where his Majesty is to repair as his Highness own private houses And therefore did the said two Counsellors conclude that they should joyn unto themselves three more of the Council to wit the Lord Admiral the Earles of Worcester and Northampton to be also particularly acquainted with this accident who having all of them concurred together to the reexamination of the contents of the said Letter they did cenclude that how slight a matter it might at the first appear to be yet was it not absolutely to be contemned in respect of the care which it behooved them to have of the preservation of his Majesties person But yet resolved for two reasons first to acquaint the King himself with the same before they proceeded to any further Inquisition in the matter aswell for the expectation and experience they had of his Majesties fortunate Judgment in cleering and solving of obscure riddles and doubtful mysteries as also because the more time would in the mean while be given for the practice to ripen if any was whereby the discovery might be the more cleer and evident and the ground of proceeding there upon more safe just and easie And so according to their determination The Letter shewed to the King did the said Earle of Salisbury repair to the King in his Gallery upon Friday being Alhollow day in the afternoon which was the day after his Majesties arrival and none but himself being present with his Highness at that time where without any other speech or judgement given of the Letter but only relating simplie the forme of the delivery thereof he presented it
I was shot into the shoulder which lost me the use of mine Arme the next shot was the elder Wright stricken dead after him the younger Master Wright and fourthly Ambrose Rookwood Then said Master Catesby to me standing before the dore they were to enter stand by me Tom and we will die together Sir quoth I I have lost the use of my right Arme and I feare that will cause me to be taken So as we stood close together Master Catesby Master Percy and my self they two were shot as far as I could guess with one Bullet and then the company entred upon me hurt me in the Belly with a Pike and gave me other wounds untill one came behind and caught hold of both mine armes And so Iremaine yours c. Commiss Edward Somerset Earle of Worcester Charles Earle of Notingham Lord Admiral Thomas Earle of Suffolke Lord Chamberlaine Charles Earle of Devonshire Lord Deputy of Ireland Henry Earle of Northampton Lord Privie Seale Robert Earle of Salisbury Principal Secretary John Erskeine Earle of Marre and Garioth William Constable Viscount Dunbar Sir John Popham Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Cooke Atturney General Sir William Waad Lievtenant of the Tower The names of those that were first in the Treason and laboured in the Myne Robert Catesby Esquires Robert Winter Esquires Thomas Percy Gentlemen Thomas Winter Gentlemen John Wright Gentlemen Christopher Wright Gentlemen Guido Fawkes And Bates Catesbies man The names of those that were made acquainted with it though not personally labouring in the Myne nor in the Cellar Everard Digby Knight Ambrose Rookwood Esquires Francis Tresham Esquires Stephen Littleton Esquires John Grant Gent. Robert Keyes Gent. Sir Everad Digby and some others of the chiefest were executed in Pauls-Church-yard The Names of those that did rise in Rebellion with them and also of those that did harbor and releeve some of them contrary to the Kings Proclamations posted down into the Country Lodow. Grant Gent. Executed at Warwi H. Morgan Gent. Executed at Warwi John Winter Gent. Executed at Worcester Hum. Littleton Gent. Executed at Worcester Perks of Hagley and Burford his man Executed at Worcester Smart and lihead Executed at Stafford For harboring and releeving Robert Winter and Stephen Littleton at West-Bramwich before they fled to Hagley When these monstrous offenders were made examples of famous and honorable justice the King and the Parliament took special care to find out such Popish Divines as gave Counsel and countenance to this unheard of villany For it is proper to all the Treasons attempted in England to have some Romish Priest or Jesuite in the practice The Devill who was a Murtherer from the beginning will evermore make choice of the fittest instruments that may be for the bringing of his cursed and cruel designes into action Not the dull Asse not the heavy Oxe not the silly sheep but the subtile serpent must help to set forward his work of temptation Many of these Incendiaries inspired by the powers of darkness with a transcendent rage against the State being chased with the guiltiness of their own consciencies fled from their triall into forraine Countries for their better safety Father Creswell puting himself into the habit of a Merchant took shipping at Bristol and wafted into Spaine where he had been leiger Jesuite a little before and came into England at this time to beare his part with the rest of his society in a victoral song or song of thanksgiving for the extirpation and rooting out of those who do worship God after that way which they call Heresie But Garnet and Oldcerne two of the principal were apprehended at Henlip in the County of Worcester in Mr Abingtons house where they were immured and closed up in a stack of Chymnies the way or passage into the Cave or Vault where they lay was in an upper room or chamber by taking up the half pace before the hearth whose wooden border was made like to a trap-door to pluck up and let down and then the bricks were laid in their courses and order again Such holes have these Foxes made for their hiding places Upon their examination and confession of their own guiltiness of their foreknowledge and concealment of this so detestable a Treason they did both suffer condigne punishment and Garnet whose Authority was great and Reverend with Catesby and the rest of the Arch. Traytors was executed in Pauls-Church-yard upon the third of May next ensuing the discovery of the Plot. He was a man saith the Un-Jesuited Cardinal incomparable for learning of all kindes but surely had he had less learning and more grace he would never have had a hand in so foul a business As for the gentle hearted Jesuite Parsons who had dipt his pen in gall against our most renowned Queen Elizabeth he always kept himself without the reach and jerke of the rod of Justice and dyed shortly after at Rome in that old House which was converted to a New-Colledge by Pope Gregory the thirteenth as we have said before whereof he was Rector much grieved no doubt for that their holy Enterprize did so miscarrie And Owen brother to Owen of Godstow by Oxford succeeded him in that place and to him succeeded Fitz-Herbert But Baldwine who was of the Councel of this horrible Treason whiles he lurked in the Low-Countries was many years after apprehended at Basil in Switzerland as he was going up into Italy and being brought into England and falling into the hands of a mercifull Prince found more favor then he deserved For by the means and mediation of Don Gondomar the Spanish Ambassador an honorable Spy the King granted him his pardon And the Ambassador with all his train went to the prison and with great veneration brought him forth and set him at liberty which made the account of his Ambassage the more acceptable to the Duke of Lerma President of the grand Counsel of Spain when he returned home We have now seen how much was wrought to have turned the Parliament-House into a Slaughter-house to have brought our Nation under the calamity of Antichristian servitude and once more to have clapt the Popes Saddle upon Englands back which if God Almighty had suffered for our sins to have been brought to pass then might our neighbors of the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas have said and that truly that the Divel did ride us Notwithstanding the greatness of this Treason so great as no history can equal yet some of the Traytors viler then the earth See King James his premonition pag. 6. and his Apology pag. 78. at the time of their death would not ask God or King forgiveness nor acknowledg that they had done any fault unless the Church of Rome should first condemn it as if Treason were no Treason and Murder were no Murder unless the Church of Rome judg it to be so Never was there any Sect or sort of people in the World neither Turk nor Jew nor Infidel no not those of Calicute which