Conspirators in the famous Giinpowihr Plot. 4^9 



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2. Secondly, matter of aggrauation. 



3. Thirdly, matter of probation. 

 My selfe am limitted to deale onely 



with the matter of declaration, and 

 lliat is couteined within the compasse 

 of the indictment onely. 



For the other two, I am to leauc to 

 him to whose place it belongeth. 

 *!iThe substance of lohich Declaration 

 consisieth in foxire Parts. 



1. First, in the persons and qualities 

 of tlie conspirators. 



2. Secondly, in the matter conspired. 



3. Thirdly, in the meane and manner 

 of tlie proceeding and execution of the 

 couspiracie. 



4. And fourthly, of the end and pur- 

 pose why it was so conspired. 



%As concerning the first, being tlte 



Persons. 

 They were — 



Garnet, 1 



Gerrard, > lesuits not then taken. 



Tesmoud, J 



Thomas Winter, 



Guy Fawkes, 



Robert Keyes, 



Tlioraas Bates, I At the 



Euerard Digby, / barre. 



Ambrose Rookewood, 



lohn Graunt, 



Robert Winter, 



Robert Catesby, ^ 



Thomas Percy, f Slainc in 



lohn Wright, ^rebellion 



Christopher Wright, J 



Francis Tresham, lately dead. 

 All grounded Romanists, ;ind corrupt- 

 ed schollers of so irreligious and 

 Iraiterous a schoole. 

 ^As concerning the second, which is the 

 matter Conspired, it was, 



1. First, to dcpriue the king of his 

 crownc. 



2. Secondly, to murder the king, the 

 qncenc, and the prince. 



3. Thirdly, to stirre rebellion and 

 scdilir>n in the kingdomc. 



4. Fourthly, to bring a miserable 

 destruction amongst the subjects. 



5. I''iftly, to change, alter, and suli- 

 ucrt tlie religion here established. 



(j. Sixtly, to ruinate the state of the 

 commonwealth, and to bring in stran- 

 gers to iauade it. 

 ^lAs vcncc ruing the third, which is the 



vieanc and vianer how to compasse and 



execute the same. 



They did all conclude — 



I. First, that tlie king and his peo- 

 ple (the I'apista excepted) were herc- 

 tiifUCii. 



3. Secondly, that they were aJI 



cursed, and excommunicated by the 

 Pope. 



.3. Thirdly, that no hcretique could 

 be king. 



4. Fourthly, that it was lawful! and 

 meritorious to kill and destroy the 

 king, and all the said hcretiques. 

 \The meane to effect it, they concluded 

 to be, that — 



1. The king, thequeene, the prince, 

 the lords spirituail and temporall, the 

 knights & burgesses of tlie Parliament 

 should be blowen vp with powder. 



2. That the whole royall issue male 

 shoiUd be destroyed. 



3. That they would take into their 

 custodie Elizabeth and Mary, the 

 king's daughters, and proclaime the 

 Lady Elizabeth qucene. 



4. That they should faine a procla- 

 mation in the name of Elizabeth, in 

 which no mention should be made of 

 alteration of religion, nor that they 

 were parties to the treason, Mitill they, 

 had raised power to pcrforme the 

 same, and then to proclaime, all 

 grieuances in the kiiigdome should be 

 rcl'ormed. 



That they also tookc scuerall oatlies, 

 and rcceiued the sacrament, first for 

 secre.sie, secondly for prosecution, ex- 

 cept they were discharged thereof by 

 three of them. 



That after the destruction of the' 

 king, the queenc, the prince, the 

 royall issue male, the k>ids spiritual! 

 and temporal, the knights and bur- 

 gesses; they should notilic the same to 

 forrainc states, and tlierctipon Sir 

 Edmund Baynam, an allfiinted person 

 of treason, and stiling himselfe prime 

 of the damned crew, should be sent and 

 make the same knoweii to the Pope, 

 and crauo his aide : an embassadour fit 

 both for the message and persons, to 

 be sent betwixt the Pope and the 

 deuill. 



That the Parliament being proroged 

 till the 7. of February, tliey in Decem- 

 ber made a mine vn<ler the house of 

 Parliament, purposing to place their 

 powder there: but the Parliament be- 

 ing then further adiourned till the 

 third of October, they in Lent follow- 

 ing hired the vault, and placed therein 

 XX. barrels of powder. 



That they tooke to them Robert 

 \y inter, Graunt, and I^ookwood, 

 gluing them the oathes and sacrament 

 as (.foresaid, as to prouide munition, 



20. lulij they layd in more icn bar- 

 re's of powder, laying vpon lhenidiu<!r8 

 great barrcs of yron, & peeces of timr 



bcr. 



