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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 10, No. 283, November 17, 1827 by Various
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cousin, John Grant, entreating him to provide money against a certain time.
This autograph is very rare.

_Guido Fawkes_.--Taken from his declaration made in the Tower on the 19th
of November, and afterwards acknowledged before the Lord's Commissioners.

_Thomas Percy_.--From an original letter to W. Wycliff, Esq. of York, dated
at Gainsborough, November 2nd, 1605.

_Henry Garnet_.--From one of his examinations, wherein he confessed to have
been in pilgrimage to St. Winifred's Well.

_Ambrose Rookewood_.--From an original letter, declared that he had felt a
scruple of conscience, the fact seeming "too bluddy."

_Thomas Wintour_.--From an original examination before the Lord's
Commissioners, on the 25th of November, 1605.

_Francis Tresam._--From his examination relative to the book on
Equivocation. Tresam escaped being hanged by dying in the Tower, on the
23rd of December, 1605.

_Sir Everard Digby_.--From an original examination. He was related to John
Digby, subsequently created Baron Digby and Earl of Bristol, and was a
young man of considerable talent. He was in the twenty-fourth year of his
age when executed.

_To the Right Hon. the Lord Mounteagle_.--The superscription to the
anonymous letter that led to the discovery of the plot. By whom it was
written still remains a mystery.
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