God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (73 page)

32
   PRO SP 14/216/212.

33
   PRO SP 14/216/200.

34
   BL Add. MS 39829, ff. 176r, 180r.

35
   PRO SP 14/19, f. 88r; Gardiner, ‘Two Declarations’, pp. 515–16; HMC Salisbury, 18, p. 109.

36
   Tesimond,
Narrative
, p. 155; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 277r; 39829, f. 11r.

37
   Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, p. 572; B. 2, p. 823; Wake, ‘The Death of Francis Tresham’, p. 39; PRO SP 14/216/212; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 141r; Pollen,
Babington Plot
, p. 58.

38
   Wake, ‘The Death of Francis Tresham’, pp. 37–8; HMC Salisbury, 17, p. 528; Bod MS Laud Misc. 655, first leaf; PRO SO 3/3 (November 1605). Antonia Fraser (
The Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 145–6) is sceptical of Tresham’s ‘exculpatory confession’; Mark Nicholls (
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, p. 50) is inclined to give it more credit.

39
   PRO SP 14/16, ff. 170–4; SP 14/216/135; PRO 31/6/1, f. 32r; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 136; Barlow,
The Gunpowder-Treason
, pp. 241–2.

40
   Gardiner, ‘Two Declarations’, p. 516; HMC Salisbury, 18, p. 109; PRO SP 14/16, f. 170r.

22
Strange and Unlooked for Letters

1
     PRO SP 14/216/11.

2
     Nicholls,
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, p. 43.

3
     Ibid., pp. 8–9; Nicholls, ‘The Gunpowder Plot’,
ODNB
; ‘His Majesty’s Speech …’, pp. 244–5.

4
     PRO SP 14/216/2; Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, p. 150.

5
     Scott,
The Fortunes of Nigel
(Edinburgh, 1822) III, pp. 96–7; Wormald, ‘Gunpowder, Treason, and Scots’, p. 144.

6
     Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 150–8, 307
n
; M. Nicholls, ‘Tresham, Francis’,
ODNB
; Wake, ‘The Death of Francis Tresham’, p. 38. For Anne Vaux’s proposed candidacy, see D. Jardine,
A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot
(1857), pp. 84–6.

7
     Swynnerton,
A Christian Love-Letter
, sig. L2r.

8
     PRO SP 14/16, f. 55; SP 14/17, ff. 19–20; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 33; T. F. Teversham,
A History of the Village of Sawston
, vol. 2 (Sawston, 1947), pp. 99–101.

9
     PRO SP 14/216/240, 241; M. Nicholls, ‘Digby, Sir Everard’,
ODNB
; Barlow,
The Gunpowder-Treason
, pp. 242–3, 250–1; Tesimond,
Narrative
, p. 156.

10
   Wake, ‘The Death of Francis Tresham’, pp. 39–40; PRO SP 14/17, ff. 75r, 85r.

11
   Gardiner, ‘Two Declarations’, pp. 516; PRO SP 14/216, nos. 70, 188; PRO 31/6/1, f. 34r. Fr Garnet heard that Grissold was ‘upon the rack for three hours’: Foley,
Records
, IV, p. 151.

12
   CP, 193, no. 57.

13
   CP, 113, ff. 20–1.

14
   PRO SP 14/216/229.

15
   PRO SP 14/216/105.

16
   PRO SP 14/16, f. 131r.

17
   PRO SP 14/216/103.

18
   Bod MS Tanner 75, f. 214v.

19
   PRO SP 14/216/229.

20
   PRO SP 14/216, nos 83, 226. Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 295.

21
   PRO SP 14/216, nos 98, 150.

22
   For Eliza, see PRO SP 14/216, nos 103–4; CP, 113, ff. 148–9. For Huddlestone: PRO SP 14/16, f. 55; SP 14/17, ff. 19–20.

23
   PRO SP 14/19, f. 93r. Strange confused his dates, but was referring to the supper at Harrowden on 5 November. For his alleged torture, see Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 173, and ABSI Anglia A III, 64.

24
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 199; PRO 14/216/134.

25
   PRO SP 14/216/227.

26
   CP, 112, f. 173; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 140.

27
   Foley,
Records
, V, p. 470.

28
   PRO 14/16, f. 175r; SP 14/216/123; HMC Salisbury, 18, pp. 426–7, 453.

29
   CP, 113, ff. 148–9.

30
   PRO SP 14/216/10. For Fawkes’s confession, see Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, p. 189.

31
   Bod MS Tanner 75, f. 214v.

23
In the Hole

1
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 197.

2
     PRO SP 14/216/92.

3
     BL Harl. MS 360, f. 8r; Harl. MS 6998, f. 71r.

4
     PRO SP 14/216/93.

5
     PRO SP 14/216/240.

6
     PRO 31/6/1, f. 25r; T. M. McCoog, ‘Sweetnam [Swetnam], John (1579–1622),
ODNB
.

7
     CP, 191, f. 71; PRO SP 12/118, ff. 59–60.

8
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 198–9.

9
     CP, 191, f. 71.

10
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 197–8.

11
   Gerard,
Narrative
, pp. 138–9.

12
   PRO E 178/3628.

13
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 197–8.

14
   CP, 191, ff. 71, 75.

15
   PRO 14/216/103–4. See too CP, 113, ff. 148–9.

16
   For an interesting recent take on this, see Baynham, ‘Twice done and then done double’.

17
   Gerard,
Narrative
, pp. 140–1.

18
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 208.

19
   CP, 113, f. 65; PRO 14/216/105.

20
   BL Add. MS 11402, f. 108r.

21
   Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 324–6; Fraser,
The Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 199–200.

22
   Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 141.

23
   PRO SP 14/16, f. 168; CP, 113, no. 19; vol. 114, ff. 84–5; vol. 119, f. 31.

24
   Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 140; Roberts,
Diary of Walter Yonge
, pp. 1–2.

25
   BL Stowe MS 168, f. 235r.

26
   Barlow,
The Gunpowder-Treason
, pp. 241, 245; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 137.

27
   Barlow,
The Gunpowder-Treason
, pp. 261–2.

28
   Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 328–30.

29
   Swynnerton,
A Christian Love-Letter
, sig. K.

30
   Ibid., sigs Ar, B–B3r; CP, 119, f. 110.

31
   Swynnerton,
A Christian Love-Letter
, sig. K4v.

32
   CP, 110, f. 121; CP, Petitions 1375.

33
   Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 141; CP, 113, f. 65.

34
   BL Add. MS 11402, f. 108r; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 208.

35
   CP, 116, f. 22.

36
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 208–9.

24
Two Ghosts

1
     Howell,
State Trials
, II, col. 176.

2
     Ibid., col. 194; Hawarde,
Les Reportes
, pp. 256–7; Willson,
Diary of Robert Bowyer
, pp. 4–8, 10.

3
     Howell,
State Trials
, II, cols 162, 182.

4
     Larkin and Hughes,
Stuart Royal Proclamations
, pp. 131–3; Tesimond,
Narrative
, pp. 162–3.

5
     Nicholls,
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, p. 50; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 211.

6
     A. J. Loomie, ‘Creswell, Joseph’,
ODNB
.

7
     Hasler,
The History of Parliament: HoC 1558–1603
: Baynham, Edmund; Nicholls,
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, pp. 67–8.

8
     Howell,
State Trials
, II, cols 165, 168, 183.

9
     Nicholls,
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, p. 49; Roberts,
Diary of Walter Yonge
, p. 5.

10
   Coke at the trial in June 1606 of Lords Mordaunt and Stourton: Nicholls,
Investigating Gunpowder Plot
, p. 75.

11
   PRO SP 14/19, f. 20r. Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 152–3; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 45.

12
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 44–5;
Narrative
, pp. 149–50.

13
   Hodgetts,
Life at Harvington
, p. 28. The Harvington library is now at Oscott College, near Birmingham.

14
   PRO SP 14/216/121; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 185.

15
   PRO SP 14/216/194; Gerard,
Narrative
, p. 149.

16
   ABSI Anglia A III, 58.

17
   Gilbert, ‘Thomas Habington’s Account’, p. 417. For the following narrative, I have also drawn on Bromley’s and Garnet’s own relations of the search: PRO SP 14/18, ff. 48, 65 (‘wet winter nights’), 68, 86; SP 14/19, ff. 17–18r; HMC Salisbury, 18, p. 109 (general confessions). Also: Bromley’s instructions from London (PRO SP 14/18, f. 35); an official manuscript account on ‘the service performed at Hinlip’, which was intended for publication (BL Harl. MS 360, ff. 93–101), and Gerard’s
Narrative
, pp. 151–6. Although they differ in some details, the accounts tend to agree substantively. Much information is printed in Foley,
Records
, IV, pp. 69–81, 154, 223–5, 269. Glyn Redworth’s excellent English-language edition of
The Letters of Luisa de Carvajal
provides fresh details (I, p. 122).