conspirators in the famous Gunpowdtr Plot. 433 



tlic superior of the loenits, was the 

 slrongest, and the oncly bond, wherby 

 Catcsby afterwards kept and retained 

 all the traitors in that so abominable 

 and detestable a confederacie. For in 

 March following, Catsby, Thomas 

 Winter, & others, resohie vpon tiie 

 powder-plot, nnd Faux, as being a 

 man vnknowen, and withal! a despe- 

 rate person and a souldier, was re- 

 solued vpon as fit for the executing 

 thereof; for which purpose hoe was in 

 Aprill following by 'J'homas Winter 

 sought and fetched out of Flanders, 

 into England. In May, in the second 

 yeere of his maiestie,Catosby, Percy, 

 lohn Wright, Tho.Wintor, andFawkes, 

 meete, and hauingvpon the holycuan- 

 gelists taken an oath of secrecy and 

 constancie to this effect — "You shall 

 swcare by the blessed Tiinitic, and by 

 the Sacrament you now purpose to 

 receiue, neiier to disclose, directly or 

 indirectly, by word or circumstance, the 

 matter that shall be proposed to you to 

 keepe secret, nor desist from the exe- 

 cution tiicreof, vntill the rest shall giue 

 you leaue." 



They were all confessed, had nbso- 

 lutiun, and received thereupon the 

 Sacrament, by the bands of Gerrard 

 the lesuite theu present. In lune fol- 

 lowing Catesby nnd Greenewell the 

 lesuite conferre about the powder- 

 treason. And at Midsummer, Catesby 

 baniiig speach with Garnet of the 

 powder-treason, they said that it was 

 so secret, as that it must prcuaile, be- 

 fore it could be rtiscouered. 



Tbeprincipall person offending here 

 at the banc is, as you baue heard, a 

 man of many names, Garnet, Wallye, 

 Darcy, Roberts, Farmer, Phillips ; and 

 surely 1 haue not commonly knowen 

 or obserued a true man that bath had 

 so many false appellations, fie is by 

 countrey an Englishman, by birth a 

 gentleman, by education a scholler, 

 afterwards a corrector of the common 

 law i)riiit, with M. Tottle the printer, 

 and now is to be corrected by the law. 

 lie hath many gifts and endowments 

 of nature ; by art learned, a good lin- 

 guist, and by profession a lesuite, and 

 a superior, as in deed liee is superior 

 to all his |)redecessors in deuilish trea- 

 son, a doctor of lesuiles, that is, a doc- 

 tor of fine D(l. as dissimulation, depo- 

 sing of princes, disposing of king- 

 domes, daunting and deterring of 

 subiects, and destruction. 



ThLseily of London, that is famous 

 3 K lor 



1823.] 



pinquitntem, and Antiquitatem Regalis 

 tanguinis, propinquitie and antiquitie 

 of blood royall, for his iust <:laime &, 

 title to this crowne both before and 

 since the Conquest. To insist vpon 

 the declaration and deduction of this 

 point, and passe along through the 

 series & course of so many ages and 

 centuries, as it would be ouer long 

 for this place ; so further I might here- 

 in secnie as it were to guild gold : 

 onely, in a word, bis Maiestie is lineal- 

 ly descended from Margaret the Saint, 

 daugiiter of Edward, sonne of King 

 Edmund, giaudchild of great Edgar, 

 the Britaine monarch ; which Marga- 

 ret, sole heire of the English Saxon 

 king, was married to Malcolm king of 

 Scotland, who by her had issue Dauid 

 the Holy, their king, from whom that 

 race royall at this day is deduced, & 

 Maud the Good, wife of the first and 

 learned Henry K. of England, from 

 wh(»m his Maiestie directly and li- 

 neally proceedeth, and of whomc a 

 poet of that lime wrote : 



Nee decor cffecit fragile, non sccptra 

 Sliperba, 



Sola poteus humilis, sola pudica decens. 

 And lastly, his Maiestie cometh of 

 Margaret, also the eldest daughter of 

 Hfury the 7. who was descended of 

 that famous vnion of those two faire 

 roses, the white and the redde, Yorke 

 and Lancaster, the efl'ecting of which 

 vnion cost the efiusion of nuich Eng- 

 lish blood, ouer and besides fourscore 



or thereabouts of the blood royall. 



• •**•• 



Catesby comming to Garnet, pro- 

 poundeth vuto him the case, and ask- 

 eth whether, for the good and promo- 

 tion of the Catholique cause against 

 bercliques, (tiie necessitie of time and 

 occasion so requiring,) it be lawfull 

 or not, amongst many nocents, to de- 

 stroy & take away some innocents 

 also. To this (|uestion Garnet adni- 

 sedly and resoluedly answered, that 

 if the aduanlage were greater to the 

 Catholique part, by taking away some 

 innocents together with many nocents, 

 then doubllesit sliould be lawful to kill 

 & destroy Ihem all : and to this purpose 

 lie alleaged a co|)arison of a towne or 

 citie which was possessed by an eue- 

 inic, if ill the time of taking thereof 

 there hapjien to be Seme few friends 

 v\ithin the jilace, they must \ndergoe 

 fill- lurluiie of the warres in thegenerall 

 and common dcNlruetion of the ene- 

 niie. And this resolution of Gainet, 



MosriiLY Mai;. No. 382. 



