God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (71 page)

39
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 144; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 262r.

40
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 270.

41
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 191r, 197v; 39829, f. 13r. Also NB: 39828, f. 180r: Tresham to George, 15 January 1593: ‘The time was when I had that interest in you, I boldly might counsel you, in a sort command you … I sithence have been estranged from you.’

42
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 269.

43
   BL Add. MS 39829, ff. 11v–12r; PRO WARD 3/17 parts 1 & 2. For Lord Vaux’s codicil, see PRO PROB 11/88/344.

44
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 176r.

45
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 189v; 39829, ff. 9v, 13v–14r, 19r.

46
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 141r, 39829, f. 19r; TP, p. 104.

47
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 12v.

48
   PRO STAC 5/T2/39, 1598; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 187v; 39829, ff. 9v–10v; Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 227–31.

49
   BL Add. MS 39829, ff. 10v, 11r.

16
Assy Reprobateness

1
     BL Add. MS 39829, f. 11r.

2
     Ibid., f. 14v. Also 39828, f. 269.

3
     TP, p. 74; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 271r.

4
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 230r.

5
     Holmes,
Elizabethan Casuistry
, p. 107.

6
     Knox,
Douay Diaries
, pp. 186–7, 207, 211–12; Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 60.

7
     
APC
, XX, p. 303; XXII, p. 546.

8
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 197.

9
     PRO C 54/1459; Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 215.

10
   PRO C 54/1335;
APC
, XXVII, pp. 83, 334; PRO STAC 5/T2/39.

11
   NRO YZ 8241; NRO FH 3013; BL Add. MS 39829, f. 31.

12
   PRO SP 77/7, ff. 329v, 331v.

13
   M. A. R. Graves, ‘Copley, Anthony’,
ODNB
; Hamilton,
Chronicle
, I, pp. 89–91, 261–2.

14
   HMC Downshire, 2, p. 405.

15
   PRO C 24/468, pt 2:
Wyseman v Smyth
, 1621.

16
   PRO STAC 8/289/3; SP 14/175, f. 30. The antagonism between the rival entourages of the second Viscount Montague and the fourth Lord Vaux may also have influenced the dispute (Questier,
Catholicism and Community
, pp. 369–70).

17
   PRO STAC 8/88/9; SP 77/7, f. 329r. See too Ostovich and Sauer,
Reading Early Modern Women
, pp. 35–9.

18
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 209v.

19
   Bod MS Ashmole 38, f. 75.

20
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 187v, 197v; 39829, f. 10.

21
   PRO STAC 8/289/3.

17
Long John with the Little Beard

1
     Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 204; Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 78–9.

2
     The Privy Council authorised the use of ‘the manacles and such other torture as is used in that place’ on 13 April 1597 (
APC
, XXVII, p. 38). See Hogge,
God’s Secret Agents
, pp. 242–5.

3
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 107–9. Unless otherwise stated, hereafter the source for Gerard’s time in the Tower is his
Autobiography
, chs 15–17.

4
     ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 550.

5
     HMC Salisbury, 7, p. 260.

6
     NRO FH 124, f. 32. Ardens are mentioned in the will of Nicholas, first Lord Vaux (PRO PROB 11/21/178).

7
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 72. Gerard, describing here the manacling of Fulwood and Owen, was writing from experience.

8
     Weston,
Autobiography
, Foreword by Evelyn Waugh, p. viii; Gerard,
Autobiography
, Longman’s jacket blurb and pp. xvii, xxiv.

9
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 5–6, 33, 39, 76, 167.

10
   Ibid., pp. 78, 90;
CSP Dom 1595–7
, p. 389.

11
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 15, 68, 70, 170.

12
   Ibid., pp. 33, 122–3, 166.

13
   Ibid., pp. 94, 100, 102–3.

14
   Ibid., App. J.

15
   HMC Salisbury, 11, p. 365; 15, p. 25; Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 17–18, 165.

16
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 84–6, 190; Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 17, 135, 201.

17
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 91, 122; PRO SP 14/19, f. 136.

18
   Watson,
Decacordon
, p. 14.

18
St Peter’s Net

1
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 144. If not detailed below, the source for Gerard in this chapter is his
Autobiography
, chs. 18–22.

2
     ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 551.

3
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 144–5, 148.

4
     CP, Petitions 701; Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 231–2. Also PRO C 3/274/14.

5
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 25, 145–6, 148, 174.

6
     BL Add. MS 39829, f. 12v. Tresham wrote this letter a year after Gerard had taken up residence with Eliza.

7
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 147–8.

8
     
APC
, XXII, p. 546; PRO STAC 5/T2/39.

9
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 150.

10
   Ibid., pp. 153–4; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 261–2.

11
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 148.

12
   NRO FH MSS 3013, 3015; Also PRO C 3/274/14.

13
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 158–60.

14
   Ibid, p. 195. See too PRO E 178/3628: schedule of Vaux goods and chattels, 1 March 1612.

15
   Tesimond,
Narrative
, p. 157.

16
   See, for example, CP, 111, f. 31.

17
   CP, 76, f. 58.

18
   PRO 16/9, f. 26v; BL Harl. MS 1580, f. 342r.

19
   Carvajal,
Epistolario
, no. 135. I am grateful to George McPherson for his translation from the Spanish.

20
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 195–6.

21
   Ibid., p. 174; Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, p. 169; Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 244; CP, 115, ff. 22, 34; vol. 119, f. 154.

22
   Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 244, 436–7.

23
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 151, 166, 194. Lisa McClain (
Lest We be Damned
, p. 39) is not alone in questioning ‘Gerard’s depiction of his success rate in converting Catholics’.

24
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 168–9.

25
   ARSI, Anglia 36II, ff. 277, 325 (from discs held at ABSI); McCoog, ‘The Society of Jesus in England’, pp. 193–5. I am extremely grateful to Fr McCoog for permitting me to cite his thesis and also for his help at the Jesuit archives in London.

26
   Walsham, ‘Translating Trent?’, p. 299.

27
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 189–92.

28
   Gee,
New Shreds
, sig. B1v and p. 17.

29
   Ibid., pp. 1–9.

30
   Gee,
The Foot out of the Snare
, p. 156.

31
   See Harmsen’s comments: ibid., pp. 60–9, 197–8 and his entry on John Gee in the
ODNB
. Also Walsham, ‘Miracles’, pp. 807, 813–14.

32
   PRO SP 89/3, f. 152v.

33
   HMC Downshire, 4, p. 167.

34
   Carvajal,
Epistolario
, no. 171. I am grateful to George McPherson for his translation from the Spanish. A published translation is also now available: Redworth,
Letters of Luisa de Carvajal
, II, pp. 325–6.

35
   Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 137; CP, 111, f. 31; W. B. Devereux,
Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex
(1853), II, p. 223; P. Croft, ‘Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk’,
ODNB
.

36
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 169. Hopes would be realised on 30 July 1628, when Sir Richard was created first Viscount Wenman.

37
   PRO SP 14/216, nos. 141, 229.

38
   PRO SP 1/105, f. 245v.

39
   
The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood
, ed. J. S. Farmer (1906), pp. 17, 450.

40
   CP, 111, f. 31r; PRO SO 3/3 (July 1605).

41
   PRO SP 14/216/226.

42
   Ibid., nos 98, 150.

PART FOUR: POWDER TREASON

19
This Stinking King

1
     Loomie,
Spanish Elizabethans
, p. 82.

2
     Wake, ‘The Death of Francis Tresham’, p. 36; Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 91–2; PRO SP 14/16, f. 55v.

3
     Gardiner, ‘Two Declarations’, p. 512 (CP, 110, f. 31v).

4
     Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 242; CP, 112, f. 137; Sir Thomas Tresham also seems to have been involved in the Erith lease (cf. BL Add. MS 39828, f. 287; 39829, f. 155).

5
     Tesimond,
Narrative
, p. 61; Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 91–2, 98, 155, 205.