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

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Archbishop Usher reported divers times to have said “that if Papists knew what he knew, the blame of the Gunpowder Treason would not lie on them”——Suggested explanation of the oracular words——Second Earl of Salisbury reported to have confessed that the Gunpowder Plot was “his father’s contrivance”——Suggested explanation of this strange report.