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Exterior view of a substantial brick countryside manor with three fireplaces.PLOWLAND HOUSE, HOLDERNESS, E.R.YORKSHIRE.
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

AND

LORD MOUNTEAGLE’S LETTER;
 
 
BEING A PROOF, WITH MORAL CERTITUDE, OF
THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE DOCUMENT:

TOGETHER WITH

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE THIRTEEN
GUNPOWDER CONSPIRATORS,
INCLUDING
GUY FAWKES.
BY

HENRY HAWKES SPINK, Jun.
(A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England).
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.

YORK:
JOHN SAMPSON.

1902.
[All rights reserved.]
“Veritas temporis filia. Truth is the daughter of Time,especially in this case, wherein, by timely and oftenexaminations, matters of greatest moment have been foundout.” — Sir Edward Coke (the Attorney-General who prosecuted theeight surviving conspirators).
“Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty whichHistory has the power to inflict on Wrong.” — Lord Acton.
“History, it is said, revises the verdicts of contemporaries,and constitutes an Appeal Court nearest to the ordeal ofheaven.” — Dr. James Martineau.
TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LINDLEY
SECOND VISCOUNT HALIFAX

OF HICKLETON AND GARROWBY
IN THE COUNTY OF YORK
ONE OF YORKSHIRE’S MOST GIFTED AND DISTINGUISHED SONS
THIS BOOK
WHICH
AMONGST OTHER THINGS
TELLS OF SOME OF THE WORDS AND DEEDS
OF CERTAIN YORKSHIREMEN IN
THE DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
IS
(BY KIND PERMISSION)
MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.
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Bland’s Court,
       Coney Street,
               York.
To the Right Honourable
             Viscount Halifax.

My Lord,
The book which your characteristic generosity has permitted me to dedicateto you wears a two-fold aspect. For it is as to one portion — andpredominantly — an Inquiry taking the form of a discourse with questionsand proofs, propositions and demonstrations. While as to anotherportion — but subordinately — it is a History taking the form of a narrativeof events, a relation of mental occurrences, a statement of concretefacts. Now these twain aspects will be found duly to play their respectiveparts in the course of the subsequent pages, in accordance with a selectedorder and method.
With most of the allegations of fact and the inferences therefrom, andwith many of the assumptions and conclusions which                        
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