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