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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

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

be informed thereof that in the mean time no other noyse should be made about it that the Design might ripen and be the fitter for Discovery According to this determination the Earl of Salisbury in the Gallery at Whitehall on Friday being Allhallows day delivered the King the Letter without any speech or judgement made of it the Contents whereof were as followeth My Lord Out of the love I bear to some of your Friende I have a care of your preservation Therefore I would advise yoa as you tender your safety to devise some Excuse to shift off your Attendance at this Parliament for God and Man have decreed to punish the wickedness of this time And think not slightly of this Advertisement but retire your self into your County 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 hurt 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 as soon as you have burned this Letter And I hope God will give you grace to make good use of it to whose Holy Protection I commend you The King who was alwaies very fortunate in solving of Ridles ne sooner read the Letter but after a little pause and the reading it over again he delivered his judgement of it as of a matter not to be slighted for that the stile of it was not like a Pasquil when the Earl of Salisbury perceiving the King to apprehend it deeplier then he expected hinted to the King that by one clause thereof that the danger was past as soon as the Letter was burned it seemed to be written by a fool or mad man for what would the notice of the danger advantage or availe any man when the burning of the Letter was sufficient to avoid it But the King joyning and referring that clause to another that they should receive a terrible blow that Parliament did happily guess that the danger intended there was by some sudden blowing up of powder for no other Rebellion or Insurrection whatsoever could be attempted unseen in time of Parliament but by that invisible nor no mischief take effect but that speedy way of destruction to that sense he rightly turned and construed the danger is past as soon to that of as quickly and therefore advised that before his going to Parliament the under-rooms of the Parliament House might be well and narrowly searched It must be confessed that God put this interpretation into the Kings Heart for though now upon the event appearing no other construction can be made of the letter yet before the wisest did not apprehend that meaning so that next to God the Nation is beholding to the King their Head for this his temporal saving knowledge The Earl of Salisbury wond'ring at this strange yet rationall Commentary of the King which he knew to be farre contrary to his ordinary and natural disposition that was alwaies averse from or editing due advertisements of practises against his person and rightly conceiving this extraordinary caution of having the rooms searched proceeded from the Vigilant care he had of the State more then of himself thought fit to dissemble his concurrent apprehension of the danger putting it off with some jest or merry discourse and so took his leave of his Majesty but repaired instantly to the same Lords of the privy Counsel whom he acquainted with the Kings judgement and construction of the Letter and what had else passed in private who agreed that the said Earle should put his Majesty again in mind of the businesse the next day being Saturday when it was ordered the Lord Chamberlain being present that the said Lord Chamberlain should according to his Custome and Office as usually view both Parliament Houses above and below and see and consider what likelihood or possibility of danger might be layed there But because they would not have any rumour fly abroad and also for the fuller discovery of the plot if there were really such a thing it was resolved that he should not go thither while Munday in the Afternoon the day before the setting down of the Parliament at which time he went thither accompanied with the Lord Mounteagle who impatiently expected the event Being there and having reviewed all the lower rooms he found in the Vault under the upper House great store of provision of Billets Faggots and Coles and enquiring of Whinyard keeper of the Wardrobe to what use he had put those lower Rooms and Cellers he replyed that Mr. Thomas Percy had hired the House and part of the Vault under the same and that the said Wood and Coal was also his provision whereupon the Lord Chamberlain casting his eye aside espied Fawks the pretended servant of Percy in a corner but took no further notice of the man At the naming of Percy the Lord Mounteagle began to suspect the matter and that the Letter might probably be sent from him and intimated afterward so much to my Lord Chamberlain who among the other things he related to have seen and considered omitted not the suspition of Mounteagles as also the jealousie he had of such a great quantity of Coals Faggots and Billets for a persons use that had not been nor yet was resident in the house he pretended to take for his dwelling whereupon the King insisted that the House was to be narrowly searched to the bottome it being to be suspected that those Faggots were laid there onely for covering of the powder of which opinion were all the Councellours present but the manner of the search was not so well agreed on for as the Kings and Kingdomes safety required all Caution for preventing the danger so the reputation of the State and the imputation it would lay upon the Earle of Northumberland whose Kinsman and most Confident Familiar this Percy was if it should prove but a Fable after a curious and strict search made them loath to be too eager therein the rather because it was known how much the King detested to be thought jealous or suspicious of any of his good Subjects But the Kings resolute persistency for a through search prevayled for as he said it could prejudice no man at all that was innocent and either they must examine the bottome of the matter that no possibility of danger might remain or else not to meddle any further in it but plainly to go next day to the Parliament and leave the successe to Fortune which he believed they would hardly take upon their consciences It was therefore finally resolved to search all places and upon the pretence of Whinyards missing some of the Kings goods to view those rooms narrowly for them And to this purpose Sir Thomas Knevet a Gentleman of his Majesties privy Chamber and a Justice of the peace in Westminster was employed who according to the trust reposed in him