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34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Discovery."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CELLAR"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CELLAR"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quis hæc posteris sic narrare poterit, ut facta non ficta esse videantur?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ages to come will be in doubt whether it were a fact or a fiction."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In like manner Chichester, the Lord Deputy in Ireland, was informed by Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, his Majesty's Secretary of State, that the Plot was an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[6] while the monarch himself sent word to Sir John Harington that"
},
{
"fr... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the conspiracy, and had moreover been officially described as the head and front of the treason. Of the latter charge, after his capture, nothing was ever heard. Of his participation, proofs, it appeared, still remained to be discovered, for on the 3rd of March Cecil still sp... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The outlines of the transaction were too notorious to be suppressed or disguised; that a design had been formed to blow up the Parliament House, with the King, the Royal Family, the Lords and Commons, and that this design was formed by Catholic men and for Catholic purposes, cou... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ". The unfortunate man Squires had been executed on the ridiculous charge that he had come over from Spain in order to poison the pommel of Queen Elizabeth's saddle. Dr. Parry, we are informed by Bishop Goodman, whose verdict is... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This account does not excuse the conspirators, but lays a heavy weight upon the devils who tempted them beyond their strength."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To deny that there was such a plot, or, which is the same thing, to throw the whole on the contrivance and ma... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That which remaineth is but this, to assure you that ere many daies you shall hear that Father Garnet ... is layd open for a principall conspirator even in the particular Treason of the Powder."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About the middle of Easter Term."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keyes, about a month before Michaelmas."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the Sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give yo... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's Book:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Having upon a primer given each other the oath of secrecy, in a chamber where no other body was, we went after into the next room and heard mass, and received the blessed Sacrament upon the same."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We had all been blowne up at a clapp, if God out of His Mercie and just Reuenge against so great an Abomination, had not destined it to be discovered, though very miraculously, even some twelve Houres before the matter should have been put in execution."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bye and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Main, --Goodman says,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who wrote thus can have had but a slight acquaintance with the details of the history. None of the conspirators, except Robert Winter, who was captured at Hagley Hall, were taken in concealment, and none at Hendlip, where there is no reason to suppose they ever were. Father G... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This great minister of state, and the staff of the Queen's declining age, though his little crooked person[37] could not provide any great supportation, yet it carried thereon a head and a headpiece of vast content, and therein, it seems, nature was so diligent to complete one, ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Although there are circumstances in his life which tell against him, it is difficult to read the whole of the letters and documents which have come down to us from his pen, without becoming gradually convinced of his honesty of intention. It cannot be denied that he was satisfie... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is dead,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[47] Five days later, Chamberlain, writing[48] to his friend Dudley Carleton, to announce the same event, thus expresses himself:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the case stands it was best that he gave over the... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[50] Since the accession of James he had felt his tenure of office to be insecure. Goodman tells us[51] that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Osborne,[52]"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[53] Sir Anthony Weldon speaks of him[54] as"
},
{
"from": "g... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "writes Lord Castlemaine,[69]"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in particular to the Scots who had followed their royal master across the border. Soon it was announced that the king would have blood; all priests were ordered to leave the realm under pain of death, and the searches for them became more frequent and violent than ever. In no lo... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bye."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Atrocious as their whole undertaking was, writes Mr. Gardiner,[92]"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Similarly Mr. Jardine, a still less friendly witness, tells us[93] that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "a description which he applies especially to Rokewoo... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They were a few wicked and desperate wretches, whom many Protestants termed Papists, although the priests and the true Catholics knew them not to be such.... They were never frequenters of Catholic Sacraments with any priest, as I could ever learn; and, as all the Protestant Cou... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Crouchback. King James, who was not a man of much delicacy in such matters, was fond of giving him nicknames in consequence. Cecil wrote to Sir Thomas Lake, October 24th, 1605:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see nothing y^t I can doe, can procure me so much favor, ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tout ce que vous a dit le Comte de Salisbury touchant le mariage d'Espagne est rempli de deguisements et artifices à son accoutumée.... Toutefois, je ne veux pas jurer qu'ils négocient plus sincerement et de meilleur foi avec lesdites Espagnols qu'avec nous. Ils corromproient pa... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Richard Duke of Gloster, and Robert Earl of Salisburie; the anagram, of which title is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A silie burs."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here lies Hobinall, our pastor while here, That once in a quarter our fleeces did sheare. For oblation to Pan his custom was thus, He first gave a trifle, then offer'd up us: And through his false worship such power he did gaine, As kept him o' th' mountain, and us on the plaine... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must remember that I gave you notice of the diabolical triplicity, that is, Cobham, Raleigh, and Northumberland, that met every day at Durham-house, where Raleigh lies, in consultation, which awaked all the best wits of the town ... to watch what chickens they could hatch ou... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When living, the world observed with all admiration and applause; no sooner dead, but it seeketh finally to suppress his excellent parts, and load his memory with all imputations of corruption."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His Falsehood in Friendship.--That he ofte... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There hath happened a great alteration by the death of the Queen. Great fears were, but all are turned into greatest security, and a golden time we have of unexpected freedom abroade.... The Catholicks have great cause to hope for great respect, in that the nobility all almost l... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rumours of Catholic conversions spread a panic which showed itself in an Act of the Parliament of 1604 confirming the statutes of Elizabeth; and to this James gave his assent. He promised, indeed, that the statute should remain inoperative."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In passing these laws for the security of the Protestant Religion, the Earl of Salisbury exerted himself with distinguished zeal and vigour, which gained him great love and honour from the kingdom, as appeared in some measure, in the universal attendance on him at his installati... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The eighth Henry did pull down Monks and their cells, The ninth will pull down Bishops and their bells."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--seemingly for the benefit of the Privy Council.[99] This important document, which is in the handwriting of Levinus Munck, Cecil's secretary, with numerous and significant emendations from the hand of Cecil himself, speaks, amongst other things, of the need of circumspection,"... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "was managed as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Goodman, Anglican Bishop of Gloucester, another contemporary, is even more explicit. After describing the indignation of the Catholics when they found themselves deceived in their hopes at the hands of James, he goes on:"... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was born before this plot, and was also an inquisitive man, a frequenter of company, of a noted wit, of an excellent family, and as Protestant a one as any in the whole nation."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both were unprincipled men, but Cecil was probably the worst. He is suspected not only of having contrived the strange plot in which Raleigh was involved, but of being privy to the proceedings of Catesby and his associates, though he suffered them to remain unmolested, in order ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old stratagems and tragedies of Queene Elizabeth's time must needs be renewed and playde againe, to bring not only the Catholikes of England, but their holy religion into obloquy"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That Cecil was the contriver, or at least the fomenter of... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it. Finally, the story of the said"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Guy Faukes' Cellar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Hall"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cotton Garden"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our Lady of the Pew (called later"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cotton House"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Queen's Bridge"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heaven (or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paradise ),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hell, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Purgatory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Painted Chamber, probably erected by Edward the Confessor, and that on the south the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Prince's Chamber,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but also"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[136] These gentlemen were never said to have been privy to the Conspiracy, and one of them, the well-known Dudley Carleton, afterwards Viscount Dorchester, was not only at this time secretary to Sir Thomas Parry, the Ambassado... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "large enough to contain the amount of powder requisite for their purpose. On December 11th, 1604, they commenced operations,[143] and in a fortnight, that is by Christmas, they had tunnelled from their starting-point to the wall they had to breach; and that this first operation ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and to have fancied that they were working their way immediately beneath the Chamber of the Peers.[157] If such a circumstance be incredible, the consequences must be borne by the narrative of which it forms an essential feature. That it is incredible can hardly be questioned. T... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is thus related by Mr. Jardine:[159]"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One morning, while working upon the wall, they suddenly heard a rushing noise in a cellar, nearly above their heads. At first they imagined that they had been discovered; but Fawkes being despatched ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[169] and there can be no doubt that his successor, now in office, had studied his methods to good purpose."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He, according to a panegyrist,[170]"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that Percy was one of those who made arrangements for seizing her;[180] and again, that having learnt that Prince Henry was not to go to the House, they determined to surprise him,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the advantage of having an infant sovereign in their hands, with a little money and a few horses, these sanguine dreamers fancied that they would have the whole of England at their feet."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GUY FAUKES' CELL."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bargaine between Percy and Ferrers for the bloody sellar.... But this contract had nothing to do with the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which was not rented till ten months later. Again, writing Nove... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He confesseth that about Christmas last [1604], he brought in the nighttime Gunpowder _to the cellar under the upper house of Parliament_,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adjoining the south end of the Cellar, or more properly the ancient Kitchen, to the west, was a small room separated only by a stone doorway, with a pointed head, and with very substantial masonry joined to the older walls.... At the North side [of this] there had been an openin... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to be made into it,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The powder was first brought into Percy's house, and lay there in a low room new built, and could not have been conveyed into the cellar by the old door but that all the street must have seen it; and therefore he caused a new door out of his house into the cellar to be made, whe... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which clearly did not require to be opened by him; while as to the ordinary door, whichever this was, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King's Book"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Court of Requests, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Hall,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Painted Chamber,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prince's Chamber."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This Piercey had a bout a year and a half a goe hyred a parte of Vyniards house in the old Palace, which appears to be Mr. Hepworth Dixon's sole authority for styling the tenement"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vinegar House."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bargaine ... for the bloody sellar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That it was in the entring of the Sun into the Tropick of Capricorn, when they began their Mine; noting that by Mining they should descend, and by Hanging, ascend."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faukes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(March 31st). The date of hiring the"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When a fortnight had thus been devoted to uninterrupted labour, Faukes informed his associates that the Parliament was prorogued from the 7th of February to the 3rd of October. They immediately separated to spend the Christmas holidays at their respective homes."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A^o 1604(5) 2 Jac.--Memorandum quod hodierno die, septimo die Februarii, A^o Regis ñri Jacobi, _viz._ Angliae (etc.) 2^{ndo}, & Scotiae 38^o, in quem diem prorogatum fuerat hoc praesens parliamentum, convenere Proceres tam Spirituales quam Temporales, quorum nomina subscribuntur... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Questi non erano carboni di legno, ma una sorte di pietra negra, la quale come carbone abrugia et fa un fuogo bellissimo et ottimo"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These Pioneers through Piercies chamber brought Th' exhausted earth, great baskets full of clay; Thereby ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The King's _Discourse_ mentions 36 barrels. Barclay (_Conspiratio Anglicana_) says there were over 9,000 lb. of powder, in 32 barrels, and that one of extra size had been placed under the throne, for treason could not without dread assail Majesty even when unarmed. The indictmen... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How much? A pound, or half a pound?"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "admit of no doubt, as appears from the testimony of Smith's _Antiquities of Westminster_, Brayley and Britton's _Ancient Palace of Westminster_, and Capon's notes on the same, _Vetusta Monumenta_, v. They are, however, inconsistent with some circumstances alleged by the governme... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is that the House of Lords having subsequently been removed to the Court of Requests, and afterwards to the Painted Chamber,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Guy Faukes' Cellar"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "evidence of great importance as to the hiring of the house and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "being thus lost."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for the keeper of the parliament house, says Goodman,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[201] then engaged in working a Catholic treason, with the special object of incriminating priests. Davies has offered to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or mark down,[202] over threescore of these, but Wright has told him that so many are not required, and that he wi... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that these matters be almost grown to a head,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Willaston adds,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The party, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "has given light into this business"
},
{
"from": "huma... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Should I chance to be apprehended, I will rest myself upon my honourable Lord."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and in another letter informed Edmondes:[219]"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Letter written to Sir Everard Digby--Powder Treason. [222] Not only is it hard to see how the terms of the document lend themselves to such an interpretation, but the date at which it was written was fully three months prior to Digby's initiation in the conspiracy. The idea is c... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the tendency of Englishmen going abroad"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to become Catholics, he thus continues:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only this is it wherein my own heart receiveth comfort, that we live under a most religious and understandi... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "we obtain much interesting information from the utterances of the government itself. In studying these we cannot fail to notice an evident effort to reconcile two conflicting interests. On the one hand, that the king and the nation should be properly impressed with a sense of th... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's Book, [232] containing, as Mr. Jardine tells us, the version which it was desired that the general public should accept. A second was furnished by Cecil himself to the ambassadors at Madrid and Brussels, and the Lord Deputy in Ireland,[233] and a third to the ambassador a... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "who was employed to"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for Barnes, he is now returning again into Flanders, with many vows and promises to continue to do good service. As he was at Dover with my pass, carrying a letter from Philipps to Owen (of Barnes own handwriting, wherewith I was before acquainted), he was suddenly stayed by ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ") had lost favour and was warned by Salisbury to leave the country."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hold him, says the Earl,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who so evar finds this box of letars let him carry hit to the Kings magesty: my mastar litel thinks I knows of this, but yn ridinge wth him that browt the letar to my mastar to a Katholyk gentlemans hows anward of his way ynto lin konsher [Lincolnshire], he told me al his purpos... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the Priestes and Catholickes, so many thousands in England would have entertayned it, no man can be so malicious and simple to thinke but there would have been a greater assembly than fourscore [in the Midlands] to take such an action in hand, and the Council could not be so ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was no part of Cecil's policy, adds Mr. Dixon,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My Lord of Salisbury had himself made some use of it in the Queen's time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "DISCOVERY."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's Book,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--the words italicised being added as an interlineation by Cecil himself. Nevertheless, it appears certain that this is not, and cannot be, the truth; indeed, historians of all shades equally discountenance the idea. Mr. Jardine[246] considers it"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the account furnished for the benefit of the King of France,[259] the same authority declares that it came to hand"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[260] While he was at table one of his pages brought him a letter which had been given to him by a man in the street, whose features he could not distinguish, with injunctions to place it in his master's own hands. It is undoubtedly a singular circumstance, which did not escape ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's Book."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and found there"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and moreover,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coming back, the chamberlain reported that the provision of fuel appeared extraordinary, and that as to the man,"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King's Book says that this took place in the street. The letter to the ambassadors assigns it to the cellar and afterwards to the street; that to Parry, to the cellar only. Faukes himself, in his confession of November 5th, says that he was apprehended neither in the street nor ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus much, he wrote,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have thought necessary to impart unto you in haste, to the end that you may deliver as much to the French king, for prevention of false bruits, which I know, as the nature of fame is, will be _increased_,[266] per... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And although in his Majesty's book there is not any mention made of them [the Jesuits], and of many things else which came to the knowledge of the State, yet is it but a frivolous inference that thereby [they] seek to serve their turn, considering the purpose of his Majesty was ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In like manner he informed the Privy Council[270] that it was determined to make no earlier search, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It certainly appears that, at least, it would have been well before the eleventh hour to institute observations as to who might be ... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still more remarkable, however, was the conduct of the government. Immediately upon the"
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "continued to be leased in the same easy-going fashion to any who chose to hire it, and continued to be the receptacle of all manner of rubbish and lumber, eminently suited to mask another battery. Not till the days of the mendacious Titus Oates, and under the influence of the pa... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GUY FAUKES' LANTERN."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That the council being set, and some lords besides in the chamber, a barrel of gunpowder should be fired underneath them, and the greater part, if not all, blown up."
}
] |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fire which was said to have burnt our king and council, and hath been so hot these two days past in every man's mouth, proves but _ignis fatuus_, or a flash of some foolish fellow's brain to abuse the world; for it is now as confidently reported there was no such matter, nor... |
34807 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and its contents, and the plan of operations agreed upon by the traitors, the question remains as to the real nature of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have seen, on the one hand, that the official narrative bristles with contradictions, and, whatever be the tr... |
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