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ber, and great massie stones, and co- 

 uered the same with fagots, &c. 



20. Septembr. they laid in more 4. 

 hogsheads of powder, with other stones 

 and baires of yron thereupon. 



4. Nouombris(thc Parliament being 

 proroged to the 6.) at eleuen a cloeke 

 at night, Fawkes liad prepared (by 

 the procurement of tlie rest) toueh- 

 wood and match, to giue fire to the 

 powder the next day. 



That the treason being miraculously 

 discouered, they put themselues, and 

 procured others to enter into, open 

 rebellion ; and gaue out most vntruely, 

 it was for tliat the Papists throats were 

 to be cut. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF SIR 

 KDWAKD COKE, ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



The obseruations to be considered 

 in this powder treason are briefly 

 thus — 



1. Jf the cellar had not bcene hired, 

 the myncMorke could hardly or not at 

 all haue beene discouered ; for the 

 mine was neither found nor suspected 

 vntill the daiinger was past, and the 

 <:apitall oflenders apprehended, and 

 by themselues vpou examination con- 

 fessed. 



2. How the king was diuinely illu- 

 minated by Almighty God, the only 

 ruler of princes, like an angell of God 

 to direct and point as it were to the 

 very place, to cause a search to be 

 made there, out of those darke wordes 

 of the letter concerning a terrible 

 blow. 



3. Obserue a miraculous accident 

 which befell in Stephen Littletons 

 house called Holbach, in Staffordshire, 

 after they had been two dales in open 

 rebellion, immediately before the ap- 

 prehension of these traitors : for some 

 of them standing by the fire side, and 

 liauing set 2.1. and di. of powder to 

 <lrie in a platter before >he fire, and 

 vndersct the said platter with a great 

 linnet) bagge ful of other powder, con- 

 teyniug some fiffeene or sixtecne 

 poundes ; it so fell out, that one com- 

 ming to put more wood into the fire, 

 and easting it on, there tlue a coale 

 into the platter, by reason whereof the 

 powder taking tire and blowing vp, 

 scorched those who were necrcst, as 

 Catesby, -Graunt, and Rookewood, 

 blew vp the rpol'e of the house, and 

 the linen bagge which was sette vnder 

 the jdattcr, being therwith sudenly 

 carried out through the breach, fell 

 tlowne in the court yard whole and 



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vnfired, which, if it had took fire in the 

 roome, would haue slaine them all 

 there, so that they neucr should haue 

 come to this triall, and Lex iustior vlla 

 est, qudrn necis artifices arte perire sua ? 



4. Note that gunpowder was the in- 

 uention of afryar, one of that Romish 

 rable, as printing was of a sovldier. 



5. Obserue the sending of Bainham, 

 one of the damned crew, to the high 

 priest of Rome, to giue signification of 

 this blow, and to craue bis direction 

 and aide. 



6. 'Ihat for all their stirrinjf and 

 rising in open rebellion, and notwith- 

 standing the false rumours giuen out 

 by them, that the throats of all Catlio- 

 liques should be cut; such is his 

 maiesties blessed gouernment, and the 

 loyaltie of his subjects, as they got not 

 any one man to take their parts besides 

 their owne company. 



7. Obserue, the shiriffe, the ordinary 

 minister of iustice, according to the 

 dutie of bis olRce, with such power as 

 he on a sodaine by law collected, sup- 

 pressed them. 



8. That God suffered their intended 

 mischiefe to come so neere the period, 

 as not to l?c discouered, but within few 

 houres before it should haue beene 

 executed. 



9. That it was in the entring of the 

 sunne into the tropifjue of Capricorne, 

 when they began their myne, noting 

 that by myning they should descend, 

 and by hanging ascend. 



10. 'J'hat there neuer was any Pro- 

 testant minister in any treason and 

 murder as yet attempted within this 

 realme. 



I am now come to the last part, 

 wliicii 1 proposed in the beginning of 

 this discourse, and that is touching 

 ccrtaine comparisons of this powder 

 treason of the lesuites, with that of 

 Raleigh, and the other of the priests 

 ^^'atson and Clarke. 1. They had all 

 one end, and that was the Romish Ca- 

 tholikc cause. 2. The same racanes, 

 by Popish and discontented persons, 

 priests and laymen. 3. They all plaid 

 at hazard, the priests were at the by, 

 Raleigh at the maine, but these in at 

 all, as purposing to destroy all the kings 

 royall issue, and withall the whole 

 estate. 4. They were all alike obliged 

 by the same otlie and sacrament. 6. 

 The same proclamations were intend- 

 ed (after the fact,) to be published for 

 reformation of abuses. G. 'ihe like 

 army prouidcd for inuading, to land at 

 Mil ford hauen, or in Kent. 7. The 



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