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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

little from the Chimney which being thereby blown up so spoyled the faces of some of the prinacipal Rebels and the hands and sides of others of them blowing up with it also another great bag of powder which notwithstanding took not fire that they were not only disabled and discouraged thereby from any further resistance in respect Catesby Rookewood Grant and divers others of greatest account among them were thereby made unable of defence but also wonderfully strucken with amazement in their guilty Consciences calling to memory how God had justly punished them with that same instrument which they would have used before for the accomplishing so great a sin according to that sentence in that in which we sin in the same shall we be punished In so much as they presently see the wonderful power of Gods Justice upon guilty Consciences did all fall down upon their knees praying God to pardon them for their bloody enterprize And after that giving over any further debate opened the Gate and suffered the Sheriffs people to rush in among them of whom they desperately sought their own destruction The three principal of them Catesby Percy and Winter joyned backs together whereof Catesby and Percy though the Proclamation directed the taking of him alone if possible because the whole Cabol and mistery of the designe was lodged in him by reason of his great Relations and acquaintance were slain VVinter was taken and saved alive And thus those resolute and furious cruel Papists who dreamed of no lesse then the destruction of Kings and Kingdoms and promised to themselves no lower Estate then the Government of great and Ancient Monarchies were miserably Defeated and quite overthrown in an instant falling iato the pit which they had prepared for others And so fulfilling that sentence which his Majesty did in a manner prophesie of them in his Oration to the Parliament some of them being presently slain others deadly wounded stripped of their Cloaths and left lying miserably naked and so dying rather of Cold then of their Wounds and the rest that either were whole or but lightly hurt taken and led prisoners to the Jayle by the Sheriffe the ordinary Minister of Justice to the ordinary prison of the worst yet compared with these harmlesse Malefactors where they remained till their sending up to London being met with a huge confluence of all sorts of people desirous to see them as the rarest and unusuallest sort of Monsters and as the publique spectacle of shame and Gods fieree wrath and just indignation They lived bloodily in superstition they practised divellishly in all manner of impiety and they dyed desperately in disgrace and ignominy And their memory shall be cursed throughout all Generations What Cause have we then and how many wayes are we provoked to trust in God and to love and worship him that so miraculously hath defended us especially since it is to be feared that he in his just displeasure for our unthankfulnesse did give us up and our late Blessed Soveraigne to the unreasonable violence of most ungodly and blood thirsty men and oh that all the undutiful company who promoted that sad Rebellion would consider of this and our late good providence and repent from their Hearts of the great evil they have done lest vengeance overtake them also Let us therefore lift up our hearts to God for he hath put a new Song of Joy and Thanksgiving into our Mouths and mercifully taught us to lift up our Eyes to him from when cometh our Salvation Psal 121. Our help cometh from the Lord which hath made Heaven and Earth He will not suffer our Feet to slip for he that keepeth us will not slumber for behold he that keepeth Israel will neither slumber nor sleep The Lord is our Keeper the Lord is our Defence at our right Hand Which God of his Infinite Mercy still stretch out to our Protection and continue us in Peace and Quietnesse from the treacherous practises of the Jesuited Papist and the bold and Rebellious Outrages of Sects and Schisme And let all the people say Amen IN January following a Commission was issued out to severall Judges of both Benches for the Tryal of those Traytors who sate on the 27th of that moneth and gave sentence of Death upon them and on the Thursday following Sir Everard Digby of Gothurst in the County of Bucks Robert VVinter of Hodington in the County of VVarwick Graunt of Yarthbrook the same County and Bates were Executed at the West end of Pauls on the next day being Friday Thomas VVinter Keys Ambrose Bookewoood of Staningfield in that County Esquire and Fawkes were Executed in the Palace-yard at VVestminster Sir Everard for his good parts was pitied the rest were sorrowful for themselves It is observable that in Catesby the Name and Family of that Councellour and Privado of Richard the Third who was also the betrayer of his Patron the Lord Hastings expired one sin punishing another in the like Guilt Francis Tresham of Northamptonshire Esquire another of the Conspirators remained about Court and fled not put proffered his ready service for the suppression of his Fellowes yet suspected of partaking with them he was committed to the Tower where before their Arraignment as aforesaid he dyed of the Strangury Garnet the Jesuite who concealed this Treason was executed likewise in March following who confessed his Fault So ended the Unfortunate Traytors giving us cause to say Soli Deo gloria FINIS

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