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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lastly, and this you must not omit, you must deliver, in commendation of my Lord Mounteagle, words to show how sincerely he dealt, and how fortunately it proved that he was the instrument of so great a blessing, ... because it is so lewdly given out that he was once of this plot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My conscience tells me that I am no way gilty of these Imputations, and that mearely the blindness of Ignorance lead me into these infamous errors." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the same in the Record Office, dated, remarkably enough, on November the 23rd. It is from the latter that the version in the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King's Book" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King's Book" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For thus the Lord in's all-protecting grace, Ten days before the Parliament began, Ordained that one of that most trayterous race Did meet the Lord Mounteagles Serving-man, Who about Seven a clocke at night was sent Upon some errand, and as thus he went, Crossing the street a fe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but as having been" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In like manner, the monarch himself, in his speech to the Houses, of November 9th, informed them:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did upon the instant interpret and apprehend some dark phrases therein, contrary to the ordinary grammar construction of them, and in an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yet the barells, wherein the powder was, are kept as reliques, and were often shown to the king and his posterity, that they might not entertain the least thought of clemency towards the Catholique Religion. There is not an ignorant Minister or Tub-preacher, who doth not (when a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy Faukes' Cellar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le ministre cupide et orgueilleux, Cécil, semble avoir été l'âme du complot, et l'avoir découvert lui même au moment propice, après avoir présenté à l'esprit faible de Jacques I. les dangers auxquels il était en but de la part des Catholiques." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do acknowledge the Church of Rome to be the Mother Church. And I do verily believe that no other church hath any salvation in it, but only so far as it concurs with the faith of the Church of Rome. On this, Mr. Brewer, his ed...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Percy was no Papist but a Puritan. [299] There is likewise in the king's own book a strange and obscure reference to Percy as the possible author of the letter to Monteagle, one of the chief grounds for suspecting him being" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would mor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[302] Moore, having occasion during the period when the Plot was in progress to be out on business late at night, and going homeward to the Middle Temple at two in the morning," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some will not stick to report that the great statesman sending to apprehend these traitors gave special charge and direction for Percy and Catesby, 'Let me never see them alive;' who it may be would have revealed some evil counsel given. A similar suspicion seems to be insinuate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the Catholics were sure to rise in a body, one family alone, the Littletons, would bring in one thousand men the next day; and so on,--all this being absolutely untrue. That he had previously employed similar means on a large scale to inveigle his friends into his atrocious and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "had taken place, not only remaining in London, and showing himself openly in the streets, but actually presenting himself to the council, and offering them his services. Moreover, though his name was known to the government, at least on November 7th, as one of the accomplices, i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Catesby's man (_George Bartlet_),[329] on his death-bed, confessed his master went to Salisbury House several nights before the discovery, and was always brought privately in at a back door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Catesby, 'tis like, did not mean to betray hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About the time of my Lord Essex his enterprise he became Catholic" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very certaine that Percy and Catesby might have been taken alive, when they were killed, but Cecil knew full well that these two unfortunate Gentlemen would have related the story lesse to his owne advantage, than himself caused it to be published: therefore they were disp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "George Bartlett, Mr. Catesby's servant," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--and of this we can be sure only that it is utterly untrustworthy. It was issued under the title of the _True and Perfect Relation_, but, as Mr. Jardine has already told us, is certainly not deserving of the character which its title imports." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "extracted from the conspirators, there are two of exceptional importance, as having furnished the basis of the story told by the government, and ever since generally accepted. These are a long declaration made by Thomas Winter, and another by Guy Faukes, which alone were made pu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "document, in Winter's own hand, is at Hatfield, and agrees in general so exactly with the copy, as to demonstrate the identity of their origin.[341] But while, as we have seen, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is dated November 23rd, the" }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The examination of Guy Fawkes, taken the 8th of November." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The declaration[349] of Guy Fawkes, prisoner in the Tower of London. Faukes speaks throughout in the first person, and supplies the names previously omitted.[350] Most noteworthy is the manner in which this version is adapted to the emendations of the draft. The passages ticked ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King's Book," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "About Easter, the parliament being prorogued till October next, we dispersed ourselves, and I retired into the Low-countries, _by advice and direction of the rest; as well to acquaint Owen with the particulars of the plot, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "drawn up by Sir E. Coke on November 8th, the very day of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "expressly for the benefit of Faukes.[355] That the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "was composed from this appears to be shown by a curious piece of evidence. We h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Catesby afterwards discovered the project unto him; shortly after which discovery, Bates went to Mass to Tesimond [Greenway], and there was confessed and had absolution." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bates was a dead man. [365] Greenway himself afterwards, when beyond danger, denied on his salvation that Bates had ever on any occasion mentioned to him any word concerning the Plot. It is still more singular that Bates himself appears to have known nothing of his own declarati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most of the prisoners, says the secretary," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may tell his Majesty that if he please to read privately what this day we have drawn from a voluntary and penitent examination, the point I am persuaded (but I am no undertaker) shall be so well cleared, if he forbear to speak much of this but few days, as we shall see all f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He confesseth that he heard his master, Thomas Winter, and Guy Fawkes say (presently upon the coming over of Fawkes) that they should have the sum of five-and-twenty thousand pounds out of Spain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Winter to be examined of his brother. For no man else can accuse him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If there shall fall out matter to charge Owen with partaking in the treason, the archduke will not refuse the king to yield him to be answerable to justice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the subject was pursued in an epistle from the King himself to the" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As for the particular depositions against Owen and Baldwin, which the archdukes desire to have a sight of, you may let them know that it is a matter which can make but little to the purpose, considering that his Majesty already upon his royal word hath certified the archdukes of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "moreover, that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CH. CO." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They meant also to have sent for the prisoners in the Tower to have come to them, of whom particularly they had some consultation, and although this important clause was omitted from the finished version finally adopted, it appears in that of Nov. 14th, sent by Cecil to the amba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This mode of dealing with the admissions of an accused person is pure and unmixed injustice; it is in truth a forgery of evidence; for when a qualified statement is made, the suppression of the qualification is no less a forgery than if the whole statement had been fabricated." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This oath was by Gerard the Jesuit given to Catesby, Percy, Christopher Wright, and Thomas Winter, and by Greenwell [Greenway] the Jesuit to Bates at another time, and so to the rest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I much rejoice that, as I hear, there is no confessi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While I was writing this, the old man waxed wroth. He shook with passion, and would fain have snatched the paper from me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That villain Wade, [412] said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your Lordship hath had a present tr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Out of [Mr. Thomas Winter's] examination, with the others that were made in the time of their imprisonment, I must gather and set down all that is to be said or collected of their purposes and proceedings in this heady enterprize. For that, as I have said, they kept it so wholly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[420] It so happens, however, that the real author, Father Gerard, is just the one of the incriminated Jesuits whose innocence is held by historians certainly not partial to his Order, to be beyond question. Mr. Gardiner considers[421] that there is" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which, although evidently based upon the official account, differs in two remarkable particulars. In the first place it gives a different list of the commissioners by whom the trial was conducted, omitting Justice Warburton, and including instead, Lord Chief Baron Flemming, Just...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bates was a dead man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "however, there are some passages which do not appear in the copy, notably one in which Lord Monteagle is mentioned. It appears, therefore, that the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Winter's Confession, taken the Twenty-third of November, 1605, in the Presence of the Counsellors, whose Names are underwritten." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L. Admyrall--L. Chamberlayn--Erle of Devonshire--Erle of Northampton--Erle of Salisbury--Erle of Mar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King's Book" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the title is altered in Coke's hand, who also added the words," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He confesseth that a Practise in generall was first broken unto him, agaynst his Majesty, for the Catholique cause, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King's Book" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The great object of the government now was to obtain evidence against the priests." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He sayth that the reason that he revealed not the project to his ghostly father was for that Cat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Owen, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Owen the Jesuit." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Decipherer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There hath been and yet is still great paynes taken to search to the bottom of the late damnable conspiracy. The Parliamente hit seemes shall not be troubled with any extraordinarie course for their exemplarye punishment, as was supposed upon the Kinges speeche, but onlye with t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nous avons bien voulu aussy par ces presentes, nous mesmes vous asseurer que ce qu'il [Edmondes] vous en a desja declaré, est fondé sur tout verité; et vous dire en oultre, que ces meschantes Creatures d'Owen et Baldouin, gens de mesme farine, ont eu aussi leur part en particuli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Qui semel malus est semper præsumitur esse malus in eodem genere mali." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At my going over M^r Catesby charged me two things more: the one to desire of Baldwin & M^r Owen to deal with the Marquis [Spinola] to send over the regiment of which he [Catesby] expected to have been Lieutenant Colonel under Sir Charles [Percy].... He wished me secondly to be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After the powder treason was resolved upon by Catesbye, Thomas Winter, the Wrightes, my self, and others, and preparation made by us for the execution of it, by their advise and direction I went into fflanders and had leave given unto me to discover our project in every particul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Winter came over to Owen, by him and the Fathers to be informed of a fit and resolute man for the execution of the enterprise. This examinate (being by the Fathers and Owen recommended to be used and trusted in any action for the Catholicks) came into England with Winter." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am in great dispute with myself to speak in the case of this gentleman. A former dearness between me and him tied so firm a knot of my conceit of his virtues, now broken by discovery of his imperfections, that I protest, did I serve a king that I knew would be displeased with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Oswald [Greenway] went to assist these gentlemen with the Sacraments of the Church, understanding their danger and their need, and this with evident danger to his own person and life: and all those gentlemen could have borne witness that he publicly told them how he griev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The political consequences of this transaction, says Mr. Jardine,[423]" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Preparations, it was officially announced, had been made for an extensive rising of the Catholics, and this had still to be reckoned with. As the king himself inform...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[428] On the 22nd there was a motion directed against the seminaries beyond the seas, and the bill for better execution of penal statutes was read a second time. On the 23rd the bill for a public thanksgiving was read twice, being finally passed on the 25th. Its preamble runs th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The discovery of the Plot occasioned the Parliament to enjoin the oath of allegiance to the king, and to enact several laws against Popery, and especially against the Jesuits and Priests who, as the Earl of Salisbury observed,[430] sought to bring all things into confusion.... I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King's Book, in explanation of the curious roundabout courses adopted in connection with the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "we are told that a far-fetched excuse was devised for the search determined upon, lest it might" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "touching Northumberland which were afloat, and should be anxious, as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though I participate not in the follies of that fly who thought herself to raise the dust because she sat on the chariot-wheel, yet I am so far from disavowing my honest ambition of my master's favour, as I am desirous that the world should hold me, not so much his creature, by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he had himself been" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "[444] Now, however, we are told, only a twelvemonth later, that this nobleman and his wife are ready for a sufficient fee to procure" }, { "from": "human", "value": "for the Catholics. The needful sum may...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now these last days we expected some new stratagem, because Salisbury pretended a letter to be brought to his lordship found by chance in St. Clement's Churchyard, written in ciphers, wherein were many persons named, and a question asked, whether there were any concavity under t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A wish, he adds," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Assuredly if it were judged that silence and oblivion should be the lot of the conspiracy, no stranger means were ever adopted to secure the desired object. A public thanksgiving was appointed to be held every year, on ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curious folks observe, wrote Chamberlain to Carleton,[453]" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since it has pleased God, said his majesty,[457]" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forasmuch as it is found by daily experience, that many his Majesty's subjects that adhere in their hearts to the popish religion, by the infection drawn from thence, and by the wicked and devilish counsel of Jesuits, seminaries, and other like persons dangerous to the church an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have taken paines in my nowne heart to clear my lord's offences, which now have leade me from the contemplation of his virtues; for I knowe him vertuous, wyse, valiaunte, and of use and ornamente to the state.... The cause of this combustion was the papistes seekinge to restor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That the holding of it [the Parliament] so soone is not convenient, as well for that the ordinary course of our subjects resorting to the citie for their usuall affaires at the Terme is not for the most part till Allhallowtide or thereabouts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A small etching of the House of Lords. Guy Fawkes in the foreground. W.E. exc. 1605." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The name of Jehovah, in Hebrew, radiate, within a crown of thorns." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foundation plan of the Ancient Palace of Westminster; measured, drawn and engraved by J. T. Smith" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Architect, in a print of the time of James I. the tapestry is not seen, and the House" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The only print answering to this description which I have been able to find exhibits the windows, but is of no value for historical purposes, as it is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy Faukes' Cellar" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy Faukes' Cellar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guy Faukes' Cell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Invented by Samuel Ward, Preacher, of Ipswich. Imprinted at Amsterdam, 1621." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laterna illa ipsa qua usus est, et cum qua deprehensus Guido Faux in crypta subterranea ubi domo Parliamenti difflandæ operam dabat. Ex dono Robti Heywood nuper Academiae Procuratoris, Ap. 4^o, 1641." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In a corner, behind the door, was a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thomas Ichrup." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gerard was not acquainted with their purpose. The last clause has been marked for omission by Sir Edward Coke who has written in the margin _hucusq._ (" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Pope's Saltpeeter Saints." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blackfriars Downfall." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Transmariner" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, moreover, clear that the letter, which is undated, cannot have been written before May 4th, 1605, the date of Cecil's earldom. On the other hand, the whole tone of the document appears utterly inconsistent with the s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I doubt not but his return would bring both assurance that such course should not be taken with the King, and that it should be performed against any that should seek to disturb him for religion. If this were done, there could then be no cause to fear any Catholic, and this ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to be undertaken when the hay has been cut, but has been endorsed by Cecil himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Letter written to Sir Everard Digby--_Powder Treason_;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it may please your Majesty, can you remember that the Lord Chief Justice Popham and Sir Thomas Challoner, Kt., had a hand in the discovery of the practices of the Jesuits in the powder, and did from time reveal the same to your Majesty, for two years' space almost before the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may please your maiestye therfore to knowe, that as I was breed upp In the Romish religion and walked in that, because I knew no better, so have I not sodainely or lightly made the chaunge, which nowe I desire to be seane In, for I speake, Sir, as before him that shall Judg m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The gentler tortours are to be first usid unto him, _et sic per gradus ad ima tenditur_,[458] and so God speede your goode worke. [459] Guy's signature of November 9th is sufficient evidence that it was none of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Last of all came the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bucephalum egregium" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hoc astu se posse rati convertere in hostes Flagitii infamiam, causamque capessere vulgo Qua Puritanos invisos reddere possent, Ut tantæ authores, tam immanis proditionis. Cognito equo, et facta (pro more) indagine cædis, Aulicus hic sceleris tanquam fabricator atrocis Proclaman...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guido Faukes, Gentleman." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a general surmise at least among the whole Order of Jesuits in foreign parts: or else one of them could hardly have stated the case so exactly some four or five years before it broke out. Father Del-Rio, in a treatise printed An. 1600, put the case, as if he had already l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And so by degrees to the uttermost." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quhat Gentlewomans Letter it was y^t was founde upon him, and quhairfor doth she give him an other Name in it y^n he giues to himself. If he was ever a papiste; and if so, quho brocht him up in it. If...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Custodis Custos sum, Carcer Carceris, arcis Arx, atque Argu' Argus; sum speculæ specula; Sum vinclum in vinclis; compes cum compede, clav[=u] Firmo hærens, teneo tentus, habens habeor. Dum regi regnoq. salus stet firma quieta, Splendida sim Compes Compedis usque licet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blackfriars Downfall," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cellar," } ]