The Gunpowder Plot

196 Pages·1994·8.865 MB·English

by  Alan Haynes

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SUTTON PUBLISHING
First published in 1994 by
Sutton Publishing Limited - Phoenix Mill - Thrupp
Stroud - Gloucestershire
This edition first published in 2001
Copyright © Alan Haynes, 1994
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any
means, electronic, mechanical,
photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission
of the publisher and copyright holder.
Alan Haynes has asserted the moral right to be identified as the
author of this work.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-7509-1246-4
Typeset in 10/13 Photina.
Typesetting and origination by
Sutton Publishing Limited.
Printed and bound in England by
J.H. Haynes & Co. Ltd, Sparkford.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
1 The Politics of Salvation
2 ‘Plotters in Exile 20
3 The Failed Plots 312.
4 The Gentlemen of the Sword 46
5 The Hand of Providence Sy
6 Spies and Soundings 69
7 Treason’s Discovery 84
8 After Midnight 96
9 Transgression on Trial 110
10 The Second Wave 125
ial ‘Sharp Additions’ LSS
1 Postlude: The Plot and the Playwright 145
Appendix I Commemorative Painting 158
Appendix II The Swords of the Gentlemen 160
Abbreviations 163
Notes 165
Bibliography a
Index 177
In loving memory of my parents
Eve and William Haynes
Acknowledgements
My thanks are due to a number of people for information and
advice, including Brian Bonnard, Ralph B. Weller, Timothy Morris,
and Charles Nicholl, who took time from his current project to read
the whole book. I am especially grateful to Dr Mark Nicholls,
Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge
University Library, for doing the same; and to Claude Blair for
answering so fully a naive enquiry about swords. The result was a
great surprise to both of us (see Appendix II). Once again the Héléne
Heroys Literary Foundation (Switzerland) has supported my work
with a’generous financial donation when nothing was offered by
any English source.
Photographs were supplied by, or are reproduced by, kind permission
of the following: Courtauld Institute; Huntington Library, San
Marino, Cal.; Mansell Collection; Schweizerisches Landes Museum
(Zurich); Weiss Gallery, London; and the Worshipful Company of
Mercers, London.
God forbid that we should give
out a dream of our own imagination
for a pattern of the world.
Francis Bacon
In conjectures I durst not be too bold,
but when they seem to offer themselves,
they deserve the choice of judgment.
John Selden