The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 (67 page)

Owen, Father Walter, S.J.,
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Oxford: James visits,
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Papists’ Powder Treason, The
(engraving),
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Parker, Sister Frances,
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Parliament: 1604 Opening,
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; as target of Gunpowder Plotters,
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; postponements (1605),
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,
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,
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,
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; supposed mine dug,
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,
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,
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; area and buildings described,
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; searched by Council,
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,
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; and James’s speech after Plot,
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,
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; reassembles (1606),
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; annual search ceremony,
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Parma, Alexander Farnese, Duke of,
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Parneil, Geoffrey,
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n

Parry, Sir Thomas,
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,
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Paul V, Pope,
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,
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Pepys, Samuel,
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n

Percy, Father John,
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,
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Percy, Josceline,
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Percy, Martha (
née
Wright; Thomas’s wife),
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,
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,
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Percy, Lady Mary,
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Percy, Thomas: mission to James,
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,
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,
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,
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; qualities and background,
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; in Gunpowder Plot,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; kinship to Northumberland,
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,
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,
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,
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; in London,
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,
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; made Gentleman Pensioner,
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,
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; and supposed mining of Parliament,
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; deputed to capture Prince Charles,
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; London accommodation,
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; unaware of Rookwood’s recruitment,
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; Francis Tresham attempts to persuade,
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; and Monteagle Letter,
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,
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; confers with Catesby and Wintour,
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; visit to Prince Charles,
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; visits Northumberland at Syon House,
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; and discovery of Plot,
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,
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; as suspect,
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; flight and actions after failure of Plot,
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; shot and killed at Holbeach,
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,
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n; body decapitated,
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,
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; named at trial of Plotters,
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; in Salisbury conspiracy theory,
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,
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Persons, Father Robert, S.J.: on supposed conversion of James,
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; on courage of Catholic women,
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; background and policy,
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; conflict with Appellants,
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; on numbers of English Catholics,
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; on equivocation,
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;
The Book of Succession
,
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,
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,
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Petre, Sir John, 1st Baron Petre of Wrktle,
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,
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,
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Philip II, King of Spain,
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,
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,
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,
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Philip III, King of Spain: and Spanish Netherlands,
ref 1
and English succession,
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,
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; and James’s supposed conversion,
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; and Wintour’s mission to Spain,
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; and Fawkes’s mission to Spain,
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,
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; and Tassis’ mission to England,
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,
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; and treaty with England,
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,
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; and trial of Plotters,
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; and Garnet straw-husk relic, 3
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; on responsibility for Gunpowder Plot,
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Phillips, Sir Edward (Serjeant-at-Law),
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,
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,
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Pius V, Pope,
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,
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Pope Day (America; 5 November),
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Popham, Sir John: on beginnings of Gunpowder Plot,
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; investigates Plot,
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,
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; antipathy to Catholics,
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; at trial of Plotters,
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; examines Garnet,
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,
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Popish Plot (1679),
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,
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,
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Prince, George,
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Protector: role and office of,
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,
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n

Pulleine, John,
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Pulleine, Maria (Guy Fawkes’s supposed wife),
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Puritans: James’s treatment of,
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,
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; and persecution of Catholics,
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Rabin, Yitzhak,
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n

Ralegh, Elizabeth, Lady (
née
Throckmorton),
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Ralegh, Sir Walter,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Reagan, Ronald,
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n

recusants (Catholic): laws against,
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; circumspection,
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,
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; fines,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; James pardons,
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; in London,
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; refuges and safe houses,
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; numbers,
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; persecuted after Plot,
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;
see also
Catholics

Riccio, David,
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Richard III, King of England,
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Ridley, Nicholas, Bishop of London,
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Robert, Prince (son of James and Anne),
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Robinson, Jane (‘the Little Girl’),
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Rojas Bernardo y Sandal, Cardinal de,
ref 1

Romiily, John, 1st Baron,
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Rookwood, Ambrose: acquires gunpowder,
ref 1
; joins Plotters,
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,
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,
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; flees London at discovery of Plot,
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; as suspect,
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,
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; opposes Warwick Castle raid,
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; in Holbeach gunpowder accident,
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; shot and captured,
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; in Tower,
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,
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n
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; interrogated,
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,
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; loyalty to Catesby,
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,
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; trial,
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,
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,
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; and absolution before Plot,
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; speaks at trial,
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; executed,
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Rookwood, Brigadier Ambrose (grandson of conspirator),
ref 1
,
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Rookwood, Dorothea (Ambrose’s half-sister),
ref 1
,
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Rookwood, Dorothea (
née
Drury; Ambrose’s mother),
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Rookwood, Elizabeth (Ambrose’s wife),
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,
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,
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Rookwood, Elizabeth (
née
Tyrwhkt),
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Rookwood, Robert,
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Rookwood, Susanna,
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Roper, Margaret (
née
More),
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n

Roper, Sir John (
later
1st Baron Teynham),
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,
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Roper, William,
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n

Rowse, A.L.,
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Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire,
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,
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,
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,
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Ruthven, Alexander (Gowrie’s brother),
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Rutland, Roger Manners, 5th Earl of,
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,
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Sadat, Anwar,
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n

St Omer, near Calais: Jesuit school,
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St Peter’s School, York,
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,
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Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of (
formerly
1st Baron Cecil of Essendon and 1st Viscount Cranborne): and Elizabeth’s death,
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proclaims James king,
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; appearance,
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; James meets,
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; ennoblement and titles,
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& n,
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n; rivalry with Essex,
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; and succession to Elizabeth,
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,
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; supports James,
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; and James’s attitude to Catholics,
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; view of Catholics,
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; on Queen Anne,
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; intelligence network,
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,
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,
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,
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; and Tassis mission from Spain,
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; acquires fortune,
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; relations with Catherine Suffolk,
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; and persecution of Catholics,
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; as target of Plotters,
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; and Monteagle’s religion,
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; responsibilities,
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; sees Monteagle Letter,
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,
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,
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,
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; foreknowledge of Plot,
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,
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,
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; shows Monteagle Letter to James,
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; preventive measures against Plot,
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; and Northumberland,
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; and search of Parliament buildings,
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; Catesby suggests dead,
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; and Plot suspects,
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; and Fawkes in Tower,
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; Verney passes information on Plotters to,
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; and decayed gunpowder,
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; and Fawkes’s confession,
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; writes to English Ambassadors about Plot,
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; instructs Barlow,
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; and Eliza Vaux’s arrest,
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; and interrogation and confessions of Plotters,
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,
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,
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; and use of torture,
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; seeks extradition of Hugh Owen,
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; and Northumberland’s innocence,
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,
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; builds case against Jesuits,
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; at trial of Plotters,
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,
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; and quartering of Plotters,
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; on Grant’s obduracy,
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; on execution of Plotters,
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; and Garnet’s journey to London,
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; at Garnet’s examination and confession,
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,
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,
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,
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; mocks Garnet over Anne Vaux,
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; and Garnet’s treatment in Tower,
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; at Garnet’s trial,
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; made Knight of Garter,
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; attempts to kidnap Hugh Owen,
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; accused of conspiring in Gunpowder Plot,
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,
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Savoy, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of,
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Sawston Hall, near Cambridge,
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n,
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Scotland: Fawkes on hostility with England,
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; James urges Union with England,
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; James’s courtiers from,
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; English hostility to,
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Scrope, Philadelphia, Lady,
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n

‘secret adherence’ (Nicodemism),
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Shakespeare, Judith,
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Shakespeare, William,
ref 1
,
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,
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,
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–
Julius Caesar
,
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;
King Lear
,
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& n;
Macbeth
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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n

Sheffield, Edmund, 3rd Baron (
later
1st Earl of Mulgrave),
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,
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Shepheard, Elizabeth,
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Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of (Bess of Hardwicke),
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Singleton, Father Richard,
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Smith, Father Richard,
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Smith, Sir Thomas,
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Somerset, Frances, Countess of (
née
Howard),
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Sophia of Mecklenburg, Queen of Frederick II of Denmark,
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Sophia, Princess: birth and death,
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Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of,
ref 1
,
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Southwell, Father Robert, S.J.: trial,
ref 1
,
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;
The Burning Babe
,
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Southwick, George,
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Spain: threat to England,
ref 1
,
ref 2
,
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; and succession to Elizabeth,
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; Win tour’s mission to,
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,
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,
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; attack on Ireland (1601),
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; Fawkes visits,
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,
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,
ref 11
,
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; treaty negotiated with England,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; and Tassis’s mission to England,
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; and English Catholics,
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; pays bribes in England,
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Spanish Armada (1588),
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,
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Spanish Netherlands: Albert and Isabella in,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; conflict in,
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,
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; and modern Belgium,
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n; English support for Protestants in,
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,
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; education of English Catholics in,
ref 11
; Hugh Owen in,
ref 12
; Stanley in,
ref 13
;
see also
Flanders