The Gunpowder Plot
1 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 289.
2 Anstruther, Vaux, p. 368.
3 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 290.
4 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 290.
5 S.T., II, p. 355.
6 S.T., II, pp. 355–6.
7 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, pp. 292–3.
8 S.T., II, p. 356; Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 293.
9 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, pp. 293–4.
10 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 295; S.T., II, p. 358.
11 Loomie, ‘Toleration’, p. 48; Gerard, Autobiography, p. 209.
12 Gerard, Autobiography, p. xvii.
13 Warnicke, pp. 170 and note 20, 182.
14 Anstruther, Vaux, p. 183.
15 Anstruther, Vaux, p. 184.
16 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, pp. 300–1; Caraman, Garnet, App. D, pp. 442–3 and note 1.
17 Caraman, Years, p. 12.
18 Anstruther, Vaux, p. 385.
19 Anstruther, Vaux, pp. 396, 453.
20 Peters, p. 385; Anstruther, Vaux, p. 476.
21 Gotch, Old Halls, p. 62; G.E.C. Banbury.
22 Baker, I, p. 245.
23 Finch, pp. 92–9.
24 Wake, p. 39 note 6.
25 Foley, IV, p. 136.
26 D.N.B. Kenelm Digby.
27 G.E.C. Monteagle; Hamilton, II, p. 37.
28 D.N.B. Ambrose Rookwood, 1664–96.
29 Goodman, I, pp. 118–22.
30 Southern, pp. 46, 83 note 3; Kerman, p. 49.
31 Nicholls, p. 77.
32 G.E.C. Monteagle.
33 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, pp. 27–8, 271; D.N.B. William Habington.
34 G.E.C. Salisbury; Croft, ‘Cecil and Court’, p. 140; H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 535.
35 Nicholls, pp. 185, 165–6; Shirley, pp. 353, 340.
36 Shirley, p. 354.
37 Batho, ‘Wizard Earl’, pp. 344–7.
38 Rowse, Cornwall, p. 371; Peters, p. 74.
39 Bliss, p. 110; Loomie, ‘Catholic Consort’, p. 308.
40 H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 178.
Chapter Eighteen: Satan’s Policy?
1 Nicholls, p. 218.
2 Cressy, ‘November’, p. 72.
3 Milward, p. 62; Macbeth, Act II, scene iii; S.T., II, p. 164.
4 Nichols, I, pp. 38–9.
5 Haynes, Plot, App. I, p. 138.
6 Dekker, Double P P, prelude.
7 Macbeth, Act II, scene iii; Macbeth (Muir), pp. xvff.
8 Macbeth, Act V, scene v.
9 Gager’s Pyramis, pp. 250ff.
10 Edwards, Tesimond, p. 139.
11 Lingard, VII, pp. 86–7 and note 1.
12 Clancy, ‘Deposing Power’, pp. 209ff.
13 Caraman, Years, p. 14; Anstruther, Vaux, p. 373.
14 Milton, IV, pp. 320–1.
15 C.S.P. Venetian, X, pp. 291–2; Edwards, Fawkes, p. 138.
16 H.M.C. Salisbury, XVIII, p. 508; Gerard, What Plot?, p. 430.
17 Goodman, I, pp. ix, 102.
18 Barlow, Preface.
19 S.T., II, p. 211.
20 Hazlitt, XI, p. 319.
21 L.J., IV, p. 369a; reference supplied by Mr D. L. Jones, Librarian, House of Lords.
22 C.J., XXX, p. 530; L.J., XIII, pp. 305b–306a; Cressy, ‘November’, p. 87, who however dates the search only to the 1690s; but see note 21 supra.
23 L.J., XIV, pp. 570a, 571b–572a.
24 Smith, Westminster, p. 44.
25 Paget, pp. 73–4; information to the author.
26 Cressy, ‘November’, p. 69.
27 See Nowak, passim; Andrewes, pp. 889–90.
28 Cressy, ‘November’, pp. 73ff.; Cressy, Bonfires, pp. 162ff.
29 Hutton, p. 212.
30 Shaw, pp. 15–18; Whitehill, p. 29; Folklore, p. 386.
31 Shaw, pp. 15–18; Billington, pp. 18–19; Folklore, p. 386.
32 Miller, p. 15; Blunt, pp. 730–1; Cressy, ‘November’, pp. 71–2; Keeling, p. 398; Colley, p. 21.
33 Swift, ‘Fawkes in Exeter’, p. 61.
34 Norman, p. 61.
35 Jardine, Narrative, p. 155.
36 See Quinault, ‘Warwickshire Landowners’.
37 ‘Diary of Joan Courthope’, unpub.
38 Lewes Bonfire Night Special, Sussex Express, 11 November 1994.
39 The Night of the Fires, 11 November 1994; local information to the author; Folklore, p. 386.
40 Gardiner, England, I, pp. 263–4.
41 Morris, Gerard’s Narrative, p. 10 and note 4; Edwards, Tesimond, p. 214.
42 Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994, pp. 350–1.
43 Recalling Clarendon’s final judgement on Oliver Cromwell: ‘a brave bad man’; Clarendon, Edward Earl of, History of the Rebellion…, p. 97, Oxford, 1969.
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