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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