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A45628	A true and perfect relation of that most horrid & hellish conspiracy of the gunpowder treason Discovered the 5th of November, anno Dom. 1605. Collected out of the best and most authentique writers, and now re-published. For further information, and to remember the people of England of Gods vvonderfull mercies and deliverances vouchsafed them, for his great name, and for his churches sake, in the defence and maintenance of the Protestant religion, established in these nations. With the names of those traytors that suffered for that bloody plot. By J.H. Gent.	J. H., Gent.	1662 (1662)	Wing H82C; ESTC R215848	11,541	18

A True and Perfect RELATION OF THAT Most Horrid Hellish Conspiracy OF THE GUNPOWDER TREASON Discovered the 5th of November Anno Dom. 1605. Collected out of the Best and most Authentique Writers and now Re-published For fuller information and to remember the People of England of Gods VVonderfull Mercies and Deliverances Vouchsafed them for his great Name and for his Churches sake in the Defence and Maintenance of the Protestant Religion Established in these Nations With the Names of those Traytors that suffered for that bloody Plot. By I. H. Gent. Who is like unto thee O Lord thou alone dost marvellous things The snare is broken and we are escaped LONDON Printed for Fr. Coles at the Sign of the Lamb in the Old-Baily 1662. A True and Perfect Relation OF THE GUNPOWDER TREASON THere is no Nation under Heaven who have received and enjoyed so many blessing both of right and left hand as the people of England we have had sure preventing mercies in times past and we have been honoured and saved by restoring mercies as our late experience can sufficiently manifest God hath had more respect to this Age of the Church making good all his promises of love and kindnesse to it then to all the several ages before He hath not dealt so with the people round about us nor in the Times before us Wonderfull is his Name and greatly to be praised But to Comply with the Time and Solemne occasion of our thanksgiving setting aside and waving the repetition of all other manifold Deliverances our purpose is briefly here to bring to our Remembrance and set before our eyes those strange and miraculous merciful dispensations of the Divine Majesty to us and our Fore-Fathers in the revealing discovering and preventing that most monstrous before unheard of mischief the Plot of the Gunpowder-Treason In order whereunto it will be requisite to consider the State of the Kingdome deducing it from the end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth of ever Blessed Memory who by the Divine providence escaped not a few dangerous conspiracies against her Life and consequently against the safety of the Church and Kingdom All these wicked Machavilians Designes were principally laid fomented and abetted and intented to be executed by Roman Catholiques incited thereunto by the Jesuits and other Emissaries of the Pope and See of Rome For which reason divers Statutes were made by Parliament for the better security of her Person and Government against Priests and Seminaries and such as should be reconciled that was perverted to the Romish Religion and for breach of those statutes enjoyning those Priests departure and absence out of the Kingdome and for other Offences several of them were Executed to the great Exulceration and Exasperation of the rest of that Perswasion and Religion who could by no means endure that Queen or her Government She dying the Papists of England were in great hopes that her Successour King James of Scotland whose Mother in their Opinion dyed a Martyr for their Religion in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth would not only remit and surcease those rigours they had before suffered but would also grant them free Exercise and Toleration of their Religion and grew very confident and jolly in this vain expectation which when they perceived to be frustrated and disappointed at that Kings very first coming in and assumption to this Crown by his declaring his constant resolution for the maintenance of the Religion here Established a conspiracy was entred into by one Watson and Clarke Priests the Lord Cobham and George Brooke his Brother Thomas Lord Gray of Wilton Sir Walter Rawleih Sir Griffin Markham Sir Edward Parham Bartholomew Brookesby and Anthony Coply their design being to surprize the King and Prince Henry and securing of them either at the Tower or Dover there by violence to obtain their own pardons a Tolleration of Religion and a removal of some Councellours c. And to conceal this Treason the better Watson devised Oaths of secresie teaching that the Act was lawful being done before the Coronation for the King had deferr'd that Solemnity till St. Jamse's day a while after because the King was no King before he was anointed and the Crown Solemnly set on His Head This Plot came by the Wise Providence of God to be discovered and the conspirators tryed for it at Winchester the Term being adjourned thither because of the Plague then in London where they were all Condemned but onely three of them viz. George Brooke Esq Watson and Clerke Priests three other viz. the Lords Cobham and Gray and Sir Griffin Markham were brought upon the Scaffold and by the Kings Grace and Mercy severally Reprieved Sir Walter Raleigh that famous Historian many years after was charged with the same Judgement and Beheaded in Westminster Palace Yard This end had these Troublers of the State whose Grand Minister such as the Politick Civil Lord Burleigh were too wary and jealous to be surprized by such Devices and the Nation now seemed to be in a most sweet and lasting peace through the wise temperament of the King and his more indulgent hand the then Papists for many years had felt when loe a most Desperate and Infernal Conjuration was laid by some Grandees and mad Zealots of that Religion a Plot so impiously wicked that the former was a meer shadow to this intended blaze and conflagration the very recital whereof makes the Pen to Tremble with the thought of those shakings revulsions and trepidations this dire Blow would have Caused This Horrid Treason was first thought on in the last year of Queen Elizabeth Thomas Winter being sent into Spain by other his Complices to desire that King in the name of the English Catholiques to send an Army into England with whom they and the Male-contented Gentry and Souldiery at the Earle of Essexe's death would be ready to joine which being assented to concluded and agreed on by the said King Winter returned into England and gave a welcome account to his party and Negotiation but Queen Elizabeth dying though they would have perswaded the Spaniard to bold his former Resolution yet he now would not further hearken to any such motion In the mean while the Jesuits had been tampering to diswade the acceptance of King James into England urging it that death was rather to be endured then to admit a Heretique from which principle other the like stuffe out of Parsons his book Philopater Sect. 1. Catesby the first in the Conspiracy took his ground it being the then Jusuits position That if any Christian Prince shall manifestly turn from the Catholique Religion c. he presently falleth from all Princely Power and Dignity and that ipso facto before any sentence pronounced against him by the supreame Judge and Pastour and that his Subjects are Absolved from all Bonds and Oaths of Allegiance c. By such like fiery Divinity of their own making the Gunpowder-Treason took strength The Parliament then called by the King was

Prorogued from the 7th of July to the 7th of February a little before which Prorogation Catesby then at Lambeth sent for Thomas Winter aforesaid and broke with him concerning this Powder-plot who answered that indeed struck at the root but if it should miscarry the Catholique Cause would be greatly Scandalized Catesby replyed the nature of the Disease required so sharp a Remedy and then demanded his consent which he freely gave but proposed difficulties as want of an House the difficulty of the Myne noise in working and such like which Catesby satisfied by telling him let us begin the attempt and where it saileth let us passe no further Then they agreed that the Constable of Spain then in the Low Countries should be dealt withal for assistance but not the plot to be discovered c. Sir William Stanley and other Fugitives should be underfelt chiefly one Guido Fawkes employed about the first overture to the King of Spain and then in that Kingdome should be drawn to the association Sir VVilliam Stanley declined all general propositions that was yet hoping to make his peace in England but brought Fawkes to VVinters acquaintance who dealt together with one Owen about the businesse Fawkes was a Gentleman of Darbishire resolute in any undertaking for his Religion and so VVinter and he returned into England to Catesby to whom came Thomas Percy kinsman to the late Earle of Northumberland where after a short conference they agreed upon an Oath of secrecy Swearing by the Blessed Trinity and the Sacrament never to disclose c. Whereupon Catesby who had drawn in one John VVright discovered the plot to Percy and Winter and Jack VVright to Fawkes and so they resolved to proceed To this purpose Percy was ordered to take the House where to lodge instruments of Violence and Death which he hired of one Ferris who Tenanted it of Mr. Whineyard belonging to the Wardrobe and Fawkes by the name of John Johnson as Mr. Percy 's man was put in to possesse it and received the keyes of the House It was also thought convenient to have another House to lodge the powder and provision for the Mine from thence to be conveyed to Mr. Percy 's so one was taken in Lambeth and one Keyes appointed the keeper thereof Now they fell to work upon the Mine having store of baked meats with them the lesse to need sending abroad The chief Conspirators were now in Consultation what they should doe when the deed was done and agreed to seize upon the Duke that was our late King Charles of blessed Memory and the Lady Elizabeth the King and Prince Henry being devoted to the Flames and having warned others of the Popish Nobility to forbear sitting in Parliament to get what number of Horses they could which strength having the Heir apparent with them would be odds sufficient in that general confusion and Consternation which would attend the Effects of their Treason About Candlemas they brought over in a Boat the Powder which they had provided at Lambeth and laid it in Mr. Piercy his House because they would have all their danger in one Place Then falling to their Work in the Mine they came against the Parliament House stone wall which was very hard to beat through at which time they called in Christopher Wright to their Company As they were thus labouring they heard a rusling noyse which was the removal of some Coals that made them think they were discovered but Fawks being sent thither to know the business understood the Coals were a selling and that the Cellar was to be Let which for its conveniency Piercy presently hired and put into it 20 Barrels of Powder newly provided and covered them with Billets and Fagots provided for the purpose Their Work being in such a readinesse Fawks was sent over into Flanders to give the Oath of Secrecy to Sir William Stanley and get him over and Owen Sir William was in Spain Owen seemed well pleased but said Sir William would not engage Whereupon Fawks returned about August the Parliament having been prorogued from the 7th of February before-going to the 5th of November About this time Mr. Piercy and Mr. Catesby met at the Bath where they agreed that few being yet in the Company Catesby should have Authority to call in whom he pleased who drew in Sir Everard Digby Mr. Tresham of Northampton shire who contributed Money to the carrying on of the Design In the interim Fawks and Winter bought some new Powder as suspecting the first to be damp and conveyed it into the Cellar and then for ten dayes before the sitting of the Parliament went down into the Country where by Enfield Chase at a place called Whitewebs they communed with Catesby who asked them if ther Pince would come to the Parliament who replying negatively he said then we must have our Horses beyond the Water and provision of more Company to surprize the Prince and leave the Duke alone All things thus laid and fitted according to their former result of warning the Popish Lords from the danger being some ten days before the sitting down of the Parliament a Letter was put about seven of the Clock on a Saturday Evening into the hands of a Footman of the Lord Mounteagles in the Street by an unknown man of a reasonable tall stature with a Charge to deliver it to his Lords own hands which he did my Lord no sooner received it but perceiving it writ in an unlegible Hand he commanded one of his servants to read it when perplext with the strangeness of the matter think it might prove some foolish devised story or other he hasted away with it to Whitehall to the Secretary the Earl of Salisbury who perusing it likewise commended my Lords care and discretion telling him that whatever the Letter seemed yet had he received Advertisements from beyond Sea concerning some practices of the Papists to make new stirs to the enabling them to deliver to the King a Petition for Toleration of their Religion like sturdy Beggars that would force if they could not began Almes The Earl added that he would presently communicate it to some others of the privy Council Mounteagle onely desiring that what ever the issue or meaning of it might be it might not be imputed to him as proceeding from his too light and sudden apprehension which his Majesties safety had onely prompted him to The Lord Chamberlain was therefore made acquainted first with it in the presence of the Lord Mounteagle who likewise concur'd there was some perillous attempt intended against the Kings Person which the Lord Chamberlain by his Office was principally concerned to take care of as well in all publique places of Assembly as in his Majesties own private Palaces Whereupon the said Letter was by consent communicated to three more Lords of the privy Council the Earls of Worcester and Northampton and the Lord Admiral who all concluded it was a matter not to be slighted and that the King should