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A33346	A true and full narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances one from the Spanish Invasion in 88, the other from the hellish Powder Plot, November 5, 1605 : whereunto is added the like narrative of that signal judgment of God upon the papists, by the fall of the House in Black-Friers, London, upon their fifth of November, 1623 / collected for the information and benefit of each family, by Sam. Clark ...; England's remembrancer	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.; Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. Gun-powder treason.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4559; ESTC R15231	43,495	131

Fleet nor were their friends of courage to succour these distressed Lords but left both ship and them in this sudden and unexpected danger But the night coming on our Lord Admiral supposing that they had left neither men nor Mariners aboard within her and fearing to lose sight of the Spaniards past by her and followed the Lanthorn which he supposed to be carried by Sir Francis Drake as it was appointed but that brave Knight was eagerly pursuing five great Hulks which he took to be of the Spaniards but when he came up and haled them they proved Easterlings and friends and so were dismissed yet by this mistake of his the greatest part of our Fleet wanting the direction of his light was forced to lye still so that he and the rest of the Fleet till towards night the next day could not recover sight of the Lord Admiral who all the night before with two other ships the Bear and the Mary-Rose followed the Spanish Lanthorn July the twenty second Sir Francis Drake espied the aforementioned lagging Gallion whereupon he sent forth a Pinnace to command them to yield otherwise his bullets without any delay should force them to it Valdes to seem valorous answered that they were four hundred and fifty strong that himself was Don Pedro and stood on his honour and thereupon propounded certain conditions But the Knight returned this reply that he had no leisure to parley if he would immediately yield so otherwise be should soon prove that Drake was no dastard Pedro hearing that it was the fiery Drake whose name was very terrible to the Spaniards that had him in chase presently yielded and with forty of his companions came on board Sir Francis his Ship where first giving him the Conge he protested that he and all his were resolved to have dyed fighting had they not fallen into his hands whose valour and felicity was so great that Mars and Neptune seemed to wait on him in all his attempts and whose noble and generous mind towards the vanquished had often been experienced even of his greatest foes Sir Francis to requite his Spanish Complements with English Courtesie placed him at his own table and lodged him in his own Cabin the residue of that company he sent to Plimouth where they remained prisoners for the space of eighteen months till by payment of their ransoms they obtained their liberty But Drakes Souldiers had well paid themselves by the plunder of the ship wherein they found 55000 Ducats of ●old which they merrily shared amongst them The same day Michael de Oquendo Admiral of the Squadron Guypusco and Vice-Admiral of the whole Fleet suffered no less a disaster whose ship being one of the greatest Gallions fell on fire and all the upper part of the ship being burnt most also of the persons therein were consumed howbeit the Gunpowder in the hold not taking fire the ship fell into the hands of the English which together with the scorched Spaniards therein was brought into Plimouth a joyful spectacle to the beholders All this day the Duke of Medina laboured securely to set his Fleet in order To Alphonso de Leva he gave in charge to joyne the first and last squadron together To every ship he assigned his quarter to ride in according to the form prescribed in Spain commanding them upon pain of death not to desert their stations Glitch an Ensign-bearer he sent to the Prince of Parma to acquaint him with his condition July the twenty third early in the morning the Spaniards taking the benefit of a Northerly wind when they approached right against Portland turned about against the English but the English nimble and foreseeing all advantages soon turned aside to the VVestward each striving to get the wind of the other which at last the English got and so they prepared themselves on each side to fight and the English continued all day from morning till night to batter those wooden Castles with great and small shot The fight was very confused and variable whilst on the one side the English bravely rescued the London ships that were hemmed in by the Spaniards and on the other side the Spaniards as stoutly delivered Rechalde being in danger Never was there heard greater thundring of Ordnance on both sides the chiefest fight being performed on this day yet notwithstanding the shot from the Spanish ships for the most part flew over the English without hurting them only Cock an Englishman dyed with honour in the midst of his enemies in a little ship of his The English ships being far the lesser charged that Sea-Gyant with marvellous agility and having given them their broad sides flew off again presently and then coming up levelled their shot directly without missing those heavy an unweildy ships of the Spaniards But the Lord Admiral would not hazzard a fight by grappling with them as some unadvised persons would have perswaded him For he considered that the enemy had a strong Army in the Fleet whereas he had none that their ships were more in number of bigger burden stronger and huger built so that they could not be boarded but with extreme disadvantage He foresaw also that the overthrow would turn to a greater dammage than the victory would avail him For being vanquished he should have brought England into extreme hazzard and being conqueror he should only have gained a little glory to himself for overthrowing the Fleet and beating the enemy On this day the sorest fight was performed wherein besides other remarkable harms which the enemy sustained a great Venetian ship with some other smaller were surprized and taken by the English and the Spaniards were forced for their further safety to gather themselves close into a Roundel their best and greatest ships standing without that they might secure those that were battered and less July the twenty fourth the fight was only between the four great Galliasses and some of the English ships the Spaniards having great advantage theirs being rowed with oars and ours by reason of the calm having no use of their sails notwithstanding which they sorely galled the enemy with their great and chain shot wherewith they cut in sunder their tacklings cables and cordage to their no little prejudice But wanting powder which they had spent so freely and other provision to maintain the fight the Lord Admiral sent some of his smaller ships to the next Ports of England to fetch supply which stirred up jealousies in the heads of many that we should thus want upon our own Coasts In which Interim a Council was called wherein it was resolved that the English Fleet should be divided into four squadrons and those committed to four brave Captains and skilful Seamen whereof the Lord Admiral in the Ark-Royal was chief Sir Francis Drake in the Revenge led the second Captain Hawkins the third and Captain Forbusher the fourth Other most valiant Captains there were in others of Her Majesties Ships as the Lord Thomas Howard in the Lion the Lord Sheffield in the Bear Sir Robert Southwel in the Elizabeth Captain Baker in the Victory and Captain George Fenner

the Syllies and thence also were forced by the Tempest to return into their former harbour to refresh their Ships and Companies only some of their Scouts at Sea descried some of the Spanish Ships which likewise had been dispersed with the storm but before the English could come near them the wind vereing about carryed them back to the Groine where there rest of their Fleet lay in harbour Intelligence being brought that the Saaniards were in want their great Ships dispersed and the rest sorely shaken with the storm and their men dying by multitudes of the Pestilence the Lord Admiral Howard intended with the first Northerly wind to take advantage which coming about upon the eighth of July he lanched forth and bore his sails almost within the sight of Spain purposing to surprise their weather-beaten Ships and to fight them upon their own Coast. But then the wind suddenly changing into the South and he wisely foreseeing that the enemy might pass by without his discovery that the Seas might be stormy or his Fleet wind-bound and that whilst he thus lay abroad his service might be more necessary at home and that his work was to defend the Coasts of England he therefore presently returned and anchored his Fleet in the Haven at Plimouth suffering his men to refresh themselves upon the Land At the same time there came more confident advertisement though false not only to the Lord Admiral but to the Court that the Spanish Fleet could not possibly come forth again that year upon which reports a dangerous matter in State affairs so confident was our Queen that she sent for four of her biggest royal Ships to be brought back to Chattam But the Lord Admiral suspecting the worst by a mild and moderate answer retarded it desiring that nothing might be lightly believed in so weighty a matter and that he might retain them though at his own charge Wherein indeed a special providence of God did appear for just at that time news was brought to the Lord Admiral by one Captain Thomas Flemming that the Spanish Fleet was entred into the British Seas commonly called the Channel and was seen near unto the Lizard point which came thus to pass The Spanish ships being new rigged and their wants supplyed their King still hot on his former resolutions instantly urged and hastened his Commanders to put forth again to Sea which accordingly they did upon the eleventh of July with the same South wind which as was said before brought back our Navy into Plimouth and so having a more favourable Gale with brave shews and full Sails they entred our Channel where casting Anchor they dispatched certain smal Pinnaces to the Prince of Parma to signifie their arrival and readiness and to command him in the name of their King to forward his charge for that service July the twentieth about noon this terrible Fleet was descried by the English coming forward amain with a South-west wind It was a kind of surprise For that as was said many of our men were gone to land and our ships ready to depart Nevertheless our undaunted Admiral towed forth such ships as he could get in readiness into the deep Sea not without great difficulty certainly with singular diligence and admirable alacrity of our Mariners cheered up with the Admirals own presence and assistance among them at their halserwork the wind blowing strongly into the Haven When they were forth they saw the Spanish ships with lofty Towers like Castles in front like an half-moon the horns whereof stretched forth in breadth about seven miles sayling as it were with labour to the winds the Ocean groaning under them so that though with full sails yet they came but slowly forward They seemed as it were to make for Plymouth but whether their Commission was otherwise or because contrary to their expectation they saw the English ships out of the Harbour they steered by towards Calice hoping to meet with the Prince of Parma The English willingly suffered them to pass by that they might the more commodiously chase them in the Reer with a fore-right wind Iuly the twenty first the Lord Admiral of England sent before him a Pinnace called the Defiance to denounce war by discharging her Ordnance himself following in the Ark-Royal set upon the Admiral as he thought of the Spaniards but it proved to be Alonzo de Leva's ship where fire smoke and loud thundring Cannons began the parley and rending Bullets most freely enterchanged betwixt them were fiery messengers of each others minds Soon after came up Drake Hawkins and Forbusher playing with their Ordnance upon the hindmost Squadron of the Enemies which was commanded by Rechalde who laboured all he could to stay his Men from flying for shelter to the Fleet till his own ship being much battered with shot and now grown unserviceable was with much difficulty drawn into the main Fleet. At which time the Duke of Medina gathered together his whole Fleet scattered here and there by the English and hoising more sail kept on his intended course toward Callice neither indeed could he do otherwise the wind favouring the English and himself finding the inconvenience of their great and high built ships powerful to defend but not to offend to stand but not to move whereas on the contrary their enemies were nimble and ready on all sides to annoy them and as apt to escape harms themselves being low built and so easily shot over Hereupon he caused them to gather themselves up close in the form of an half-moon and to slacken their sails that their whole Fleet might keep together But our English Admiral having maintained an hot fight for the space of two hours thought nor good to continue it any longer thirty of his ships scarce coming to the work the rest being as yet scarce gotten out of the Harbour In this first days fight the Saint Katherine a Spanish Ship having been sorely battered and much torn was taken into the middest of their Fleet to be repaired And an huge Ship of Biscaie of Don Oquendoes in which was a great part of the Kings treasure began to be all in a Flame by force of Gunpowder which was fired on purpose by a Flemish Gunner for being misused by them But the fire was soon quenched by the assistance of some other ships sent in to her help All this while the Spaniards for want of courage which they called Commission did what they could to decline the fight casting themselves continually into Roundels their strongest ships walling in the rest in which posture they made a flying march towards Callis yet in the former medly a great Gallion wherein was Don Pedro de Valdez Vasques de Silva Alenzo de Saias with other Noble men being sore battered with the English shot in avoyding whereof she fell foul upon another ship and ere she could be cleared had her fore-mast broken off which so hundred her sailing that she was unable to keep way with the rest of the

in the Gallion-Leicester It was also further appoined that out of every squadron certain small vessels should give you a charge from diverse parts in the dead time of the night but the calm continuing this designe could not be effected July the twenty fifth being Saint James day the Spaniards were arrived against the Isle of Wight where was a most terrible encounter each shooting off their whole broad sides and not above sixscore yards the one from the other There the Saint Anne a Gallion of Portugal which could not hold course with the rest was set upon by certain small English Vessels to whose rescue came Leva and Don Diego Telles Enriques with three Galliasses which the Lord Admiral himself and the Lord Thomas Howard in the Golden Lion rowing their ships with their boats so great was the calm charged in such sort with their roaring Canons that they had much ado and that not without loss to save the Gallion from which time forward none of the Galliasses would undertake the fight The Spaniards reported that the English the same day beat the Spanish Admiral in the utter squadron rending her sore with their Great Ordnance and having slain many of her men shot down her main Mast and would have much endanger'd her but that Mexi● and Rechalde came in good time to her rescue That the Spanish Admiral assisted by Rechalde and others set upon the English Admiral which happily escaped by the sudden turning of the wind That thereupon the Spaniards gave over the pursuit and holding on their Course dispatched again a Messenger to the Prince of Parma to joyn his Fleet with all speed to the Kings Armado and withal to send them a supply of great shot But these things were unknown to the English who wrote that from one of the Spanish ships they had shot down their Lanthorn and from another the Beak-head and that they had done much hurt to the third that the Non-parrella and the Mary Rose had fought a while with the Spaniards and that other ships had rescued the Tryumph which was in danger The truth is they had so sorely battered those huge wooden Castles that once more they forced them for their further safety to gather themselves into a Roundel July the twenty sixth the Lord Admiral to encourage and reward the Noble Attempts of his gallant Captains bestowed the Order of Knighthood upon the Lords Howard and Sheffield Roger Townsend John Hawkings Martin Forbusher and others And yet the vain glorious and boasting Spaniards caused a report to be spread in France that England was wholly conquered by them It was resolved by our men that from thenceforth they should assail the enemy no more till they came to the British Frith or strait of Callis where the Lord Henry Seimore and Sir William Winter with the ships which they had for the guard of the narrow Seas waited their coming and so with a fair gale from the South West and by South the Spanish Fleet sailed forward the English Fleet following it close at the heels And so far was it from terrifying our English Coasts with the name of Invincible or with its huge and terrible spectacle that our brave English youth with an incredible alacrity leaving parents wives children kinsfolk and friends out of their entire love to their native country hired ships from all parts at their own proper charges and joyned with the Fleet in great numbers amongst whom were the Earls of Oxford Northumberland and Cumberland Thomas and Robert Cecil Henry Brook Charles Blunt Walter Raleigh William Hatton Robert Carey Ambrose Willoughby Thomas Gerard Arthur Gorges and many others of great note July the twenty seventh the Spanish Fleet making forward towards evening came over against Dover and anchored before Callis intending for Dunkerk there to joyn with the Prince of Parma's forces well perceiving that without their assistance they could do nothing They were also warned by the Pilots that if they proceeded any farther it was to be feared lest they should be driven by the force of the tide into the Northern Ocean The English Fleet following up hard upon them cast Anchor so neer that they lay within Culvering shot at which time the Lord Henry Seimore and Winter joyned their ships to them so that now the English Fleet consisted of one hundred and forty sail all able ships to fight sail and turn about which way soever they pleased Yet were they not above fifteen that sustained the greatest burden of the fight From hence once more the Duke of Medina sent to the Prince of Parma to hasten forth his long expected and much desired forces with which messengers many of the Spanish Noble men went to land having had enough of the Sea amongst whom was the Prince of Ascoli the Kings base son who returned to his ship no more and indeed well it was for him for that his Gallion was afterwards cast away upon the Irish Coast and never returned to salute Spain These messengers earnestly prayed the Prince of Parma to put forth to Sea with his Army which the Spanish Fleet should protect as it were under her wings till it was landed in England And indeed the Prince of Parma hearing the best and not the worst of this voyage made all things ready that lay in his charge whose hopes were so fixed upon Englands Conquest and the glittering Diadem upon Queen Elizabeths head did so dazel his ambitious eyes being assured by Cardinal Allen that he was the man designed to be crowned therewith that neglecting the Coronet of the Low-Country Government he transferred the charge thereof upon Count Mansfield the Elder and having made his vows to the Lady of Hall in Heinault he was already in conceit no less than a King But the date of his reign was soon expired and his swelling tide fallen into a low shallow ebb For the day following in his march to Dunkirk he heard the thundring Ordnance ringing the passing peal of his hopes and title and the same evening had news of the hard success of the Spaniards the hoped advancers of his dreamed felicity and indeed do what he could he could not be ready at the Spaniards call His flat-bottomed boats for the shallow Channels leaked his provision of victuals proved unready and his mariners having hitherto been detained against their wills had withdarwn themselves there lay also watching before the Havens of Dunkirk and Newport whence he was to put forth to Sea the men of War of the Hollanders and Zelanders so well provided with great Ordnance and Musketiers that he could not put from the shore unless he would wilfully cast himself and his men upon eminent perils and dangers of destruction and yet he being a skilful and experienced Commander omitted no means being inflamed with a desire to conquer England But Queen Elizabeths foresight prevented both his diligence and

the credulous hope of the Spaniards For by Her command the next day after the Spaniards had cast Anchor the Lord Admiral made ready eight of his worst ships filled with wild-fire pitch rosin brimstone and other combustible matter their Ordnance were charged with bullets stones chains and such like things fit instruments of death and all the men being taken out upon the Sabbath day July the twenty eighth at two of the clock after midnight were they let drive with wind and tide under the guidance of Young and Prowse amongst the Spanish Fleet. And so the Pilots returning and their trains taking fire such a sudden thunderclap was given by them that the affrighted Spaniards it being the dead time of the night were amazed and stricken with an horrible fear lest all their ships should have been fired by them And to avoid this present mischief being in great perplexity they had no other remedy to avoid these deadly engines and murthering inventions then by cutting their cables in sunder the time being too short to weigh up their Anchors and so hoising up their sails to drive at random into the Seas in which hast and confusion the greatest of their Galliastes fell foul upon another ship and lost her rudder and so floted up and down and the next day fearfully making towards Callis ran aground upon the sands where she was set upon by the English This Galliass was of Naples Her General was Hough de Moncado who fought the more valiantly because he expected present help from the Prince of Parma But Sir Amias Preston gave such a fierce assault upon her that Moncado was shot dead with a bullet and the Galliass boarded wherein many of the Spaniards were slain and a great many others leaping into the Sea were drowned only Don Antonio de Matiques a principal Officer had the good hap to escape and was the first man that carried the unwelcome news into Spain that their Invincible Navy proved vincible This huge bottom manned with four hundred Souldiers and three hundred slaves that had in her fifty thousand Ducats of the Spanish Kings treasure fell into the English mens hands a reward well befitting their valour who sharing it merrily amongst them and freeing the miserable slaves from their fetters would have fired the empty vessel but Monsieur Gourden Governour of Callis fearing that the fire might endanger the Town would not permit them to do it bending his Ordnance against those which attempted it Had not this politick Stratagem of the fire-ships been found out it would have been very difficult for the English to have dislodged them for those huge ships had their bulks so strengthened with thick planks and massie beams that our bullets might strike and stick and yet never pass through them So that the greatest hurt which our English Canon did was only by rending their Masts and tacklings The Spaniards report that the Duke of Medina when these burning ships approached commanded the whole Fleet to weigh Anchor to avoid them yet so as having shunned the danger presently every ship to return to her former station which accordingly he did himself giving a signal to the rest to do the like by discharging one of his great Guns but in this general consternation the warning was heard but of a few the rest being scattered all about which for fear were driven some into the' wide Ocean and other upon the shallows of Flanders July the twenty ninth after this miserable disaster the Spaniards ranging themselves into the best order they could approaching over against Graveling where once again the English getting the wind of them deprived them of the conveniency of Callis road and kept them from supply out of Dunkirk from whence rested their full hope of support In the mean while Drake aad Fenner played incessantly with their great Ordnance upon the Spanish Fleet and with them presently joyned Fenton Southwel Be●●●on Cross Riman and lastly the Lord Admiral himself with the Lords Thomas Howard and Sheffield On the other hand the Duke of Medina Leva Oquenda Richalde and others of them with much ado got clear off the shallows and sustained the charge as well as they could yet were most of their ships pitifully torn and shot through the fight continuing from morning till night which indeed proved very dismal to the Spaniards for therein a great Gallion of Biscay perished the Captains whereof to avoid ignominy or to be reputed valorous desparately slew each other ●n which distress also two other great ships presently sunk The Gallion Saint Matthew under the command of Don Diego Piementelli coming to rescue Don Francisco de Toledo who was in the Saint Philip was together with the other miserably torn with shot their tacklings spent and their bulks rent so that the water entred in on all sides which sight was maintained against them by Seimore and Winter In which distress they were driven near Ostend where again they were shot through and through by the Zelanders Their desparate condition being known the Duke of Medina sent his own skiff for Don Diego Piementelli Camp-master and Colonel over thirty two Bands But he in a Spanish Bravado refused to leave his ship and like a Souldier assayed every way to free himself But being unable to do it he forthwith made towards the coast of Flanders where being again set upon by five Dutchmen of War was required to yield which finally he did unto Captain Peter Banderdness who carried him into Zeland and for a Trophy of his victory hung up his Banner in the Church of Leiden whose length reached from the very roof to the ground Another also of the Spanish ships coasting for Flanders was cast away upon the sands Francisco de Toledo also being likewise a Colonel over thirty two Bands in the other Gallion taking his course for the coast of Flanders his ship proved so leak that himself with some others of the chief betook themselves to their skiff and arrived at Ostend the ship with the residue being taken by the Flushingers The Spaniards now finding their welcome into England far worse than they expected were content to couch their Fleet as close together as they could not seeking to offend their enemies but only to defend themselves and the wind coming to the South-west in the same order they passed by Dunkirk the English still following them at the heels But left the Prince of Parma should take this advantage to put forth to Sea the Lord Admiral dispatched the Lord Henry Seimore with his squaron of small ships to the Coast of Flanders to joyn with those Hollanders which there kept watch under Justin of Nassau their Admiral This Holland Fleet consisted of thirty five ships furnished with most skilful Mariners and twelve hundred Muskiteers old experienced Souldiers whom the States had culled out of several Garisons Their charge was to stop up the Flemish Havens and to prevent entercourse with Dunkirk whither the Prince of Parma was come and would

it was there concluded that because th●ir number was but few Catesby himself should have power to call in whom he would to assist their design by which authority he took in Sir Everard Digby of Rutlandshire and Francis Tresham Esquire of Northamptonshire both of them of sufficient state and wealth For Sir Everard offered fifteen hundred pounds to forward the Action and Tresham two thousand But Percy disdaining that any should out-run him in evil promised four thousand pounds out of the Earl of Northumberlands Rents and ten swift horses to be used when the blow was past Against which time to provide Ammunition Catesby also took in Ambrose Rookwood and John Grant two Recusant Gentlemen and without doubt others were acquainted also with it had these two grand Electors been aprehended alive whose own tongues only could have given an account of it The business being thus forwarded abroad by their complices they at home were no less active For Percy Winter and Fawkes had stored the Cellar with thirty six Barrels of Gunpowder and instead of shot had laid upon them barrs of Iron logs of timber massie stones Iron Crowes Pick-axes and all their working tools and to cover all great store of Billets and Faggots so that nothing was wanting against that great and terrible day Neither were the Priests and Jesuits slack on their parts who usually concluded their Masses with prayers for the good success of their expected hopes about which Garnet made these Verses Gentem aufert perfidam credentium de finibus Vt Christo laudes debitas persolvamus alacriter And others thus Prosper Lord their pains that labour in thy cause day and night Let Heresie vanish away like smoke Let their memory perish with a crack like the ruine and fall of a broken house Upon Thursday in the evening ten days before the Parliament was to begin a Letter directed to the Lord Monteagle was delivered by an unknown person to his footman in the street with a strait charge to give it into his Lords own hands wh●ch accordingly he did The Letter had neither date nor subscription and was somewhat unlegible so that the Nobleman called for one of his servants to assist him in reading it the strange contents whereof much perplexed him he not knowing whether it was writ as a Pasquil to scare him from attendance at the Parliament or as a matter of consequence and advice from some friend Howsoever though it were now supper-time and the night very dark yet to shew his loyalty to his Soveraign he immediately repaired to White-Hall and imparted the Letter to the Earl of Salisbury then principal Secretary and they both presently acquainted the Lord ●hamberlain therewith who deemed the matter not a little to concern himself his Office requiring him to oversee all the places to which his Majesty was to repair Hereupon these two Counsellors shewed the Letter to the Earls of Worcester and Northampton and all concluded how slight soever the contents seemed to appear to acquaint the King himself with the same which accordingly was done and the Letwas as followeth My Lord OVt of the Love I bear to some of your friends I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this Parliament For God and man have concurred to punish the wickedness of this time And think not slightly of this Advertisement but retire your self into your Country where you may expect the event in safety For though there be no appearance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow this Parliament and yet they shall not see who hurts them This Counsel is not to be contemned because it may do you good and can do you no harm For the danger is past so soon as you have burnt the Letter and I hope God will give you the grace to make a good use of it to whose holy protection I commend you His Majesty after reading this Letter pausing a while and then reading it again delivered his judgment that the stile of it was too quick and pithy to be a Libel proceeding from the superfluities of an idle brain and by these words That they should receive a terrible blow at this Parliament and yet not see who hurt them he presently apprehended that a sudden danger by a blast of Gunpowder was intended by some base villain in a corner though no Insurrection Rebellion or desperate attempt appeared and therefore wished that the Rooms under the Parliament House should be throughly searched before himself or Peers should sit therein Hereupon it was concluded that the Lord Chamberlain according to his Office should view all the Rooms above and below but yet to prevent idle rumours and to let things ripen further it was resolved that this search should be deferred till Munday the day immediately before the Parliament and that then it should be done with a seeming slight eye to avoid suspect According to this conclusion the Earl of Suffolk Lord Chamberlain upon Munday in the afternoon accompanied with the Lord Monteagle repaired into those under Romes and finding the Cellar so fully stored with Wood and Coals demanded of Fawkes the counterfeit Johnson who stood there attending as a servant of small repute Who owed the place He answered that the Lodgings belonged to Master Thomas Percy and the Cellar also to lay in his Winter Provision himself being the Keeper of it and Master Percy 's servant whereunto the Earl as void of any suspicion told him that his Master was well provided against Winter blasts But when they were come forth the Lord Monteagle told him that he did much suspect Percy to be the Inditer of the Letter knowing his affection in Religion and the friendship betwixt them professed so that his heart gave him as he said when he heard Percy named that his hand was in the Act. The Lord Chamberlain returning related to the King and Council what he had seen and the suspition that the Lord Monteagle had of Percy and himself of Johnson his man all which increased his Majesties jealousie so that he insisted contrary to the opinion of some that a narrower search should be made and the Billets and Coals turned up to the bottom and accordingly the search was concluded to be made but under colour of searching for certain Hangings belonging to the house which were missing and conveyed away Sir Thomas Knevet a Gentleman of His Majesties Privy Chamber was employed herein who about midnight before the Parliament was to begin went to the place with a small but trusty number of persons And at the door of the entrance to the Cellar finding one who was Guy Fawkes at so unseasonable an hour cloked and booted he apprehended him and ransacking the Billet he found the Serpents nest stored with thirty six barrels of Powder and then searching the Villain he found about him a dark Lanthorn three Matches and other