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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

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 Bro●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

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