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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

a faire booty for the Conquerors who doe carry them away in triumph to the ordinary Goale of the County where they staied some few daies and then were sent to London to be judged by the Worthies of the Parliament whom they would have destroyed Most of their Servants led by their Masters had a gracions pardon But the Arch. Traytors had famous and honorable justice executed upon them in and about London and some of the meaner sort were sent back into the several Counties where they lived to have their tryal and execution there for the spreading of the more terror And Thomas Winter a principal Agent in promoting this terrible Treason being now a Prisoner in the Tower there made this confession as followeth The Confession of Thomas Winter taken the XXIII of November 1605. in the presence of the Counsellors whose names are under-written My most honorable Lords NOt out of hope to obtain pardon for speaking of my temporal part I may say The fault is greater then can be forgiven nor affecting hereby the Title of a good Subject for I must redeem my Country from as great a danger as I have hazarded the bringing of her into before I can purchase any such opinion Only at your Honors comand I will briefly set down mine own accusation and how far I have proceeded in this business which I shall the faithfuller doe since I see such courses are not pleasing to Almighty God and that all or the most material parts have been already confessed I remained with my brother in the Country from Alhallontide untill the beginning of Lent in the yeer of our Lord 1603. the first year of the Kings Raign about which time Master Caresby sent thither intreating me to come to London where he and other my friends world be glad to see me I desired him to excuse me for I found my self not very well disposed and which had happned never to me before returned the Messenger without my company Shortly I received another Letter in any wise to come At the second summons I presently came up and found him with Master John Wright at Lambeth where he brake with me how necessary it was not to forsake our Country for he knew I had then a resolution to goe over but to deliver her from the servitude in which she remained or at least to assist her with our uttermost endeavors I answered that I had often hazarded my life upon far lighter termes and now would not refuse any good occasion wherein I might doe service to the Catholick cause but for my self I knew no means probable to succeed He said that had bethought him of a way at one Instant to deliver us from all our Bonds and without any forrain helpe to replant again the Catholick Religion and withall told me in a word It was to Blow up the Parliament house with Gunpowder for said he in that place have they done us all the mischief and perchance God hath designed that place for their punishment I wondered at the strangeness of the conceit and told him that true it was this strake at the roote and would breed a confusion fit to beget new alterations But if it should not take effect as most of this nature miscarried the scandal would be so great which Catholick Religion might hereby sustain as not only our enemies but our friends also would with good reason condemn us He told me the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy and asked me if I would give my consent I told him yes in this or what else soever if he resolved upon it I would veuture my life But I proposed many difficulties as want of an house and of one to cary the Myne noise in the working and such like His answer was Let us give an attempt and where it faileth pass no further But first quoth he Because we will leave no peaceable and quiet way untried you shall goe over and informe the Constable of the State of the Catholicks here in England intreating him to sollicite his Majesty at his comming hither that the Penall Lawes may be recalled and we admitted into the ranck of his other Subjects withall you may bring over some confident Gentleman such as you shall understand best able for this business and named unto me M. Fawkes Shortly after I passed the Sea and found the Constable at Bergen near Dunkirk where by helpe of Master Owen I delivered my message whose answer was that he had a strict command from his Master to do all good offices for the Catholicks and for his own part he thought himself bound in conscience so to do and that no good occasion should be omitted but spake to him nothing of this matter Returning to Dunkirk with Mr. Owen we had speech whether he thought the Constable would faithfully helpe us or no. He said he beleeved nothing less and that they sought only their own ends holding small account of Catholicks I told him that there were many Gentlemen in England who would not forsake their Country untill they hadtryed the uttermost would rather venture their lives then forsake her in this misery And to add one more to our number as a fit man both for Counsel and execution of whatsoever we should do wished for M. Fawkes whom I had heard good commendations of he told me the Gentleman deserved no less but was at Brussels and that if he came not as happily he might before my departure he would send him shortly after into England I vvent soon after to Ostend vvhere Sir William Stanley as then vvas not but came tvvo daies after I remained vvith him three or foure daies in vvhich time I asked him if the Catholicks in England should do any thing to help themselves vvhether he thought the Archduke vvould second them He ansvvered no for all those parts vvere so desirous of peace vvith England as they would endure no speech of other enterprise neither vvere it fit said he to set any project afoot novv the peace is upon concluding I told him there vvas no such resolution and so fell to discourse of other matters untill I came to speak of Mr. Fawkes vvhose company I vvished over into England I asked of his sufficiency in the vvarrs and told him vve should need such as he if occasion required he gave very good commendations of him And as vve vvere thus discoursing and I ready to depart for Newport and taking my leave of Sir William Mr. Fawkes came into our company nevvly returned and saluted us This is the Gentleman said Sir William that you wished for and so we embraced again I told him some good friends of his wished for his company in England and that if he pleased to come to Dunkirke we would have further conference whether I was then going so taking my leave of them both I departed and about two daies after came Mr. Fawkes to Dunkirke where I told him that we were upon a resolution to doe somewhat