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A66398 The history of the gunpowder-treason collected from approved authors, as well popish as Protestant. Williams, John, 1636?-1709. 1678 (1678) Wing W2705; ESTC R1987 17,337 31

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Imprimatur Guil. Jane Nov. 4. 1678. THE HISTORY OF THE Gunpowder-Treason Collected from Approved Authors AS WELL POPISH as PROTESTANT Saepè Divinitatis opera haec sunt furias in ipso jam successu securas subita ultio excipiat nè vel unquam improbis timor vel spes absit Calamitosae virtuti Jo. Barclaii Conspiratio Anglicana LONDON Printed for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1678. THE HISTORY OF THE GUNPOWDER TREASON THere are no Conspiracies and Insurrections more dangerous to States and Governments than those that the name of Religion is made to patronize for when that doth head and manage the Party as it makes it look somewhat considerable in it self so it doth inspire those that are concerned with a certain furious and intemper ate zeal and an ungovernable violence they then rebel with authority and kill with a safe conscience and think they cannot do amis as long as it is to do God service The Brother will then deliver up the Brother to death and the Father the Child and the Children will rise up against their Parents and cause them to be put to death and the Laws of Nature which are of themselves sacred and inviolable shall in such a case be despised and lose their authority This this is it which in these latter Ages more especially hath disturbed Governments disposed of the Crowns of Princes and troubled the peace of the world From hence spring all those mischiefs that threatned and perpetually allarm'd this Nation during the long and fortunate Reign of Queen Elizabeth From hence proceeded that barbarous and bloody design of the Gunpowder Treason in the year 1605. Such a Design a the World before never heard of and which Posterity will hardly believe for the horror of it say the soberer of their own Authors such a design as even some of the Jesuits after it miscarried and they saw how ill it was resented by the rest of mankind professed their detestation of but how little to their own vindication and the satisfaction of the World will easily appear to any one that doth impartially inquire into the History and the process of it For this design was not taken up of a sudden and what a small company of rash and hot-headed persons did without consideration attempt but what proceeded from the same original and was carried on by the same Counsels and Endeavours that were in being in the time of Queen Elizabeth the principals in which for their time were Garnet the Provincial of the Jesuits in England Baldwin in Flanders and Creswel in Spain these were the great Projectors and Encouragers of that which was called the Spanish Treason in the last year of Queen Elizabeth and which when defeated in by her death and the Peace that issued upon it betwixt the Crowns of England and Spain they were put upon new Counsels and forced to take other Measures for the prosecution of it It was in Decemb. in the year 1601 that Tho. Winter was sent into Spain by the ioynt advice of Henry Garnet and Oswald Tesmond Jesuits and of Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham Gentlemen of good quality and reputation to try what could be done for Their assistance that were ready to sacrifice their lives and fortunes for the Catholick Cause and to assure the King of Spain that could they but prevail with him to send over an Army they would have in readiness 1500 or 2000 horses for the service With Winter was sent over Oswald Tesmond and by them a Letter to Creswel the Jesuit then residing there By whose Mediation the motion was readily hearkned to and Don Pedro Francesa second Secretary of State and the Duke of Lerma did assure them of the Kings furtherance and help and in the Conclusion the Count of Miranda particularly told them that his Master had resolved to bestow two hundred thousand Crowns to that use half to be paid that year and the rest the next following and that at Spring he would without fail set footing in England About the latter end of the year Thomas Winter returns with this joyful news and they were now busie in preparing for it and almost every day expecting the arrival of these Forces when of a sudden all was dashed by the Death of Queen Elizabeth which was March 24. 1602. Upon this one of the Wrights is immediately despatched into Spain to give the King notice of it and about the same time was Guy Fawks sent with Letters and Commission from Sir William Stanly Hugh Owen and Baldwin the Jesuit who were then in Flanders and ready to attend and to prosecute the same Design But That King told them that he was now otherwise resolved and it became him not to hearken to such proposals after he had sent Embassadors to the new King of England to treat of a Peace It was now therefore fit either to let their Design fall or to betake themselves to some other course to Effect it but the Former their Temper and their Principles would not permit And therefore since they could not promise themselves success therein by force they did contrive how without any noise or visible and open preparations it might be obtained That a King or Queen who is an Heretick may be deposed or killed was current Doctrine amongst them in the time of Queen Elizabeth and what they had been taught from Father Creswel or whoever was the Author of the Book called Philopater and by Tresham in his Book de officio hominis Christiani found with them about this time And though the King was not formally declared and proceeded against as such yet it was thought sufficient by them that the Pope on Maunday-Thursday did censure and Condemn all Hereticks in the general as Guy Fawkes and others of them did confess And therefore the Question was not so much about the lawfulness of it as about the order that was to be observed and the way that was fit to be taken in it Catesby who was no Novice in these affairs and that from his acquaintance with Parsons when in England and Garnet and the other Jesuits to whose order he and his Family from Campian down to this time were particularly devoted had learned great skill and Subtilty quickly contrived this for them and when Percy who was of the house of Northumberland and at that time one of the Kings Pensioners according to the bluntness of his temper did offer himself for the service and that he would without any more adoe undertake to assassinate the King This wary Gentleman replyed that would be too dear a purchase when his own life would be hazarded in it and it was unnecessary when it might as well be accomplished without it And so acquaints him in part with what was intended Before this was fit to be fully Communicated he thought it necessary that there should be some care taken to obliege all to Secrecy for which purpose an