The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 (58 page)

Chapter Five: Spanish Charity

1
Loomie,
Fawkes,
pp. 22ft; Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 69; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 479ff.

2
Longley, pp. 1–3; Spink, p. 30, Supplementum, I, p. 239; D.N.B. Fawkes; Aveling, ‘Recusants’, pp. 191ff.

3
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 69.

4
Goodman, II, pp. 121–2.

5
Hyde Park Family History Centre,
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Exhibition Road, London S.W.7; North Yorkshire County Council.

6
Loomie, ‘Toleration’, pp. 22ft.; Loomie,
Elizabethans,
pp. 178ff.

7
Loomie,
Elizabethans,
pp. 130ff.

8
Edwards,
Fawkes,
p. 89; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 82.

9
In 1606 Christopher Wright would be lumbered with the charge of joining Guy Fawkes in Spain at this point (when he was no longer in a position to deny it) since Dutton had conveniendy vanished from sight. See Loomie,
Fawkes, passim.

10
Loomie,
Fawkes,
p. 21.

11
Loomie,
Fawkes,
App., pp. 61–2.

12
Loomie,
Fawkes,
p. 26.

13
Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 20.

14
Loomie,
Spain and Jacobean,
I, pp. 11ff.

15
Cuvelier, pp. 289–90; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 10.

16
H.M.C. Salisbury, XV, pp. 245–6.

17
Loomie,
Spain and Jacobean,
p. 11; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 170.

18
H.M.C. Salisbury, XV, pp. 245–6.

19
Loomie,
Spain and Jacobean,
pp. 14ff.

20
Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 25.

21
Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 27.

22
Loomie,
Fawkes,
p. 35.

23
Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 21.

24
Peck,
Court Patronage,
pp. 68–74;
Clifford,
p. 87 and note.

25
Loomie,
Spain and Jacobean,
pp. 71–2; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 25; Croft, ‘Reputation’, p. 58.

26
Aveling,
Handle,
p. 131; Edwards,
Fawkes,
p. 75; Caraman,
Garnet,
pp. 308–9; Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,
pp. 23–4.

27
Caraman,
Years,
p. 82; Webb, p. 330; Bossy, ‘English Catholic’, pp. 98ff.; Magee, App. III, pp. 214–15.

28
Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 309.

29
H.M.C. Salisbury, XV, pp. 282–3,
²
7-

Chapter Six: Catesby as Phaeton

1
Ashton, p. 63; Akrigg, pp. 30–1; Salgado, p. 185.

2
Harrison,
Jacobean,
p. 110; Strong, p. 96.

3
Akrigg, p. 30; Strong, p. 10.

4
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 43; ST., II, p. 77.

5
Mcllwaine, pp. 269–80; Munden, p. 63.

6
C.J., pp. 176ff.

7
Peck,
Mental World,
p. 4; C.J., p. 177.

8
C.J., pp. 187–8.

9
Wormald, ‘Gunpowder’, pp. 158ff.; Peck,
Mental World,
p. 4.

10
Eastward Ho!,
pp. xxiiiff., 61; De Luna, p. 115.

11
Clifford,
p. 6; Cuddy, p. 163.

12
Haynes,
Cecil,
pp. 129ff.

13
C.S.P. Venetian, X, p. 230.

14
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 43.

15
Trans. Gavin Maxwell,
The Ten Pains of Death,
1959.

16
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 43; Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,
p. 30.

17
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVI, pp. 44–5; Dickens, ‘First Stages’, pp. 24ft; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 75.

18
Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,.
54.

19
ST., II, p. 190;
Romeo and Juliet,
Act III, scene ii.

20
B.L., Cotton MSS, Titus B II, fol. 294.

21
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 61.

22
Wake, p. 39.

23
D.N.B. Robert Catesby.

24
Jones, pp. 1ff.; Chastleton, Oxon, Baptisms.

25
Williamson, p. 73.

26
Anstruther,
Vaux,
p. 305; B.L., MSS Royal, 12.E.X.

Chapter Seven: So Sharp a Remedy

1
Thomas Wintour’s Confession, Gardiner,
Plot,
pp. 57–69, amended H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 509–13.

2
Gardiner,
Plot,
p. 61.

3
Gardiner,
Plot,
p. 61.

4
Thomas Wintour was quite clear on the order of progression and, although there are some difficulties about his evidence, he had no reason to lie about Percy’s slightly later involvement; Haynes,
Plot,
p. 45; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 53.

5
Porter, p. 42; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 25; Hale, p. 456.

6
Andrewes, p. 94; C.S.P. Domestic, VIII, p. 279; Gardiner,
Plot,
p. 50; HM.C. Salisbury, XVII, p. 479; Edwards,
Tesimond,
pp. 208–9 note.

7
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 153; Carswell, p. 40; S.P. 14/216/145; ST., II, p. 230; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, p. 540; Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,
pp. ccxxxi–ccxxxii.

8
Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,
p. 140.

9
Edwards,
Tesimond,
pp. 87–8.

10
Caraman,
Garnet,
pp. 316–17.

11
Larkin and Hughes, I, p. 123 note 1.

12
Camm, p. 319.

13
Finch, App. VI, pp. 179–81.

14
Gearty, citing W. Laqueur, p. 10; Wilkinson, p. xii.

15
Wilkinson, pp. 5ff.; Clancy, ‘Catholics’, pp. 212ff.; Edwards,
Jesuits,
p. 22.

16
Scarisbrick, p. 18; Skinner, pp. 345 ff.

17
Hale, p. 40.

18
Carswell, p. 159; Rose, p. 98.

19
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 80; Bossy, ‘English Catholic’, p. 95.

20
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 107; Edwards,
Fawkes,
p. 126.

21
Andrewes, p. 89.

22
Gardiner, ‘Garnet’s Declarations’, p. 515; Magee, p. 39; Jordan, II, p. 64.

23
H.M.C. Salisbury, XI, pp. 156, 296; Gerard,
What Plot?,
App. H, pp. 256-7.

24
Dures, p. 42.

25
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 46 note.

26
Gardiner,
Plot,
p. 63 note 2.

27
Edwards,
Fawkes,
p. 124.

28
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, p. 528; XVI, pp. 208, 210, 220.

29
S.P. 14/216/145; Hales, p. 30; Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 99 note.

30
S.T., II, pp. 175, 230.

31
Edwards, ‘Still Investigating’, p. 331; Williamson, p. 121; Gerard,
What Plot?,
pp. 122ff.; Edwards,
Fawkes,
p. 175; Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 72.

32
Gerard,
What Plot?,
pp. 85–6; Williamson, p. 121.

33
S.T., II, p. 179; C.J., p. 260; Williamson, p. 72; Dekker,
Double P P.

34
Seton, p. 373.

35
Nichols, I, pp. 472ff.

Chapter Eight: Pernicious Gunpowder

1
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 100–1; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 52.

2
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 500–1.

3
Peters, p. 57.

4
Paul, p. 226; Hales, pp. 26ff.; Milward, p. 21.

5
Hotson, pp. 188, 143ff.: Eleanor Bushell (Ned’s sister) and Judith Shakespeare married two brothers called Quiney: they thus became ‘sisters’ according to contemporary usage.

6
Nichols, I, p. 429; Oman, p. 26.

7
C.S.P. Domestic, 1603–1610, pp. 246, 280.

8
C.S.P. Domestic, 1603–1610, p. 246; Gerard,
What Plot?,
p. 81; Wormald, ‘Gunpowder’, p. 162.

9
Morris,
Troubles,
1st, p. 197.

10
Edwards,
Tesimond,
pp. 80–1; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 527–8; C.S.P. Domestic, VIII, p. 246.

11
Nicholls, p. 23.

12
C.S.P. Venetian, X, p. 301.

13
Nicholls, p. 23; but Nicholls, p. 205, points out that ‘a strong circumstantial case’ existed against Northumberland.

14
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 96; S.T., II, p. 230.

15
Chamberlain, I, p. 204; C.S.P. Venetian, X, p. 236.

16
Willson, p. 221; Wormald, ‘Gunpowder’, p. 157 note 43; Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 410.

17
Williamson, p. 118.

18
Vetusta Monumenta, V, pp. 3ft; Smith,
Westminster,
pp. 39–41.

19
Edwards,
Fawkes,
pp. 111–12.

20
Williamson, p. 251; Gerard,
What Plot?,
p. 74; Garswell, p. 29 and note.

21
Dr Constam, Royal Armouries, to the author; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVI, p. 341; Bull, ‘Furie of the Ordnance’; Cruickshank, p. 125.

22
Southern, p. 288; C.S.P. Domestic, 1603–1610, p. 256.

23
Constam; S.T., II, p. 183.

24
Hale, p. 136; Stow, p. 819.

25
Handover,
Cecil,
p. 265; Gerard,
What Plot?,
p. 99.

26
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 549–50.

27
Anstruther,
Vaux,
pp. 267ff.; Anstruther, ‘Treason’, pp. 452ff.

28
Anstruther, ‘Treason’, p. 454.

29
Anstruther, ‘Treason’, p. 456.

30
Anstruther,
Vaux,
p. 287.

31
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, p. 538; Gerard,
Autobiography,
p. 169.

32
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 538, 569–70; Anstruther,
Vaux,
p. 287.

33
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 90.

34
Duffy, p. 3; Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 320 and note 1.

35
Gardiner, ‘Garnet’s Declarations’, pp. 510–11.

36
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 90.

Chapter Nine: There Is a Risk…

1
ST., II, p. 256.

2
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 81.

3
Caraman,
Garnet,
pp. 322ff.

4
Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 322; ST., II, pp. 107–11.

5
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 97.

6
Anstruther,
Vaux,
pp. 364ft; ST., II, p. 107; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, pp. 96–7.

7
ST., II, p. 255.

8
Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 91; Williamson, p. 143.

9
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, pp. 75–7; ST., II, p. 231.

10
Loomie,
Fawkes,
pp. 52–3 and note 3.

11
C.J., pp. 256–7.

12
Wiener, p. 109.

13
Chamberlain, I, p. 201; ST., II, p. 195.

14
Edwards,
Tesimond,
p. 45.

15
Nichols, I, pp. 530ff.; Chamberlain, I, pp. 208–9.

16
Paul, pp. 20ff.;
King Lear
(Muir), p. xxiii.

17
Anstruther,
Vaux,
p. 276; Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 325.

18
Caraman,
Garnet,
p. 412; S.T., II, p. 231.

19
Waugh, pp. 3ff.

20
Waugh, p. 23.

21
Waugh, p. 13.

22
Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative, pp.
182–3.

23
Mathew,
Catholicism, p.
50; Squiers, p. 25; Edwards,
Tesimond, p.
194.

24
Gerard,
Autobiography, p.
46; App. C, pp. 265–6.

25
Charles-Edwards, pp. 1–24; Duffy, p. 44; Gerard,
Autobiography, p.
46.

26
David, p. 70.

27
Anstruther,
Vaux,
p. 277

28
Finch, pp. 80ff.

29
Edwards,
Tesimond, p.
108 and note; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, p. 513.

30
Anstruther,
Vaux, p.
246.

31
Morris,
Gerard’s Narrative,
pp. 164ft; Sumner, p. 11.

32
Anstruther,
Vaux, p.
278.

33
Williamson, p. 142.

Chapter Ten: Dark and Doubtful Letter

1
King Lear,
Act I, scene ii;
King Lear
(Muir), pp. xviii–xix; S.T., II, p. 182.

2
Nicholls, p. 175.

3
Gerard,
Autobiography, p.
33.

4
H.M.C. Salisbury, XVII, pp. 511–12.

5
Shakespeare Trust, ER 27/14; Hamilton, I, p. 214; Waugh, p. 80.

6
C.S.P. Domestic, VIII, p. 254.

7
Foley, I, p. 75; Anstruther,
Vaux, p.
280.

8
Digby’s examination, S.P. 14/216/94.

9
Lingard, VII, p. 57 and note 1.

10
Edwards,
Tesimond,
pp. 105–7.

11
S.P. 14/19/40; Astruther,
Vaux, p.
279.