WHAT WAS THE GUNPOWDER PLOT? THE TRADITIONAL STORY TESTED BY

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

WHAT WAS THE GUNPOWDER PLOT? CHAPTER I. THE STATE OF THE QUESTION.

CHAPTER II. THE PERSONS CONCERNED.

CHAPTER III. THE OPINION OF CONTEMPORARIES AND HISTORIANS.

CHAPTER IV. THE TRADITIONAL STORY.

CHAPTER V. THE GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT.

CHAPTER VI. THE "DISCOVERY."

CHAPTER VII. PERCY, CATESBY, AND TRESHAM.

CHAPTER VIII. THE GOVERNMENT'S CASE.

CHAPTER IX. THE SEQUEL.

APPENDIX A. NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS. Frontispiece. The Powder Plot. I.

APPENDIX B. (p. 33). Sir Everard Digby's letter to Salisbury.

APPENDIX C. (p. 34). The Question of Succession.

APPENDIX D. (p. 36). The Spanish Treason.

APPENDIX E. (p. 60). Site of Percy's lodging [ see View, p. 56 , and Plan, p. 59. ]

APPENDIX F. (p. 64). Enrolment of Conspirators.

APPENDIX G. (p. 94). Henry Wright the Informer.

APPENDIX H. (p. 119). Lord Monteagle to King James , (British Museum MSS. Add. 19402, f. 146.)

APPENDIX I. (p. 140). Epitaph in St. Anne's, Aldersgate. [Maitland, London (1756), p. 1065.]

APPENDIX K. (p. 173). The Use of Torture.

APPENDIX L. (p. 227). Myths and Legends of the Powder Plot.

APPENDIX M. Sir William Waad's Memorial Inscriptions.

APPENDIX N.

INDEX.

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