Antonia Fraser - Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

BY ANTONIA FRASER

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The Weaker Vessel
The Warrior Queens
The Wives of Henry VIII
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 1997

Copyright 1996 by Antonia Fraser

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom, under the title The Gunpowder Plot, by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, and subsequently in hardcover in the United States by Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1996. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Nan A. Talese.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Nan A. Talese edition as follows:
Fraser, Antonia
Faith and treason: the story of the Gunpowder Plot/Antonia Fraser.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Gunpowder Plot, 1605. 2. Great BritainHistoryJames I, 16031625.
3. Fawkes, Guy, 15701606. I. Title.
DA392.F76 1996
942.061dc20 96-21709

ISBN 0-385-47190-4
eBook ISBN 978-0-8041-5262-4

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FOR

Edward who would have defended them
Lucy who would have hidden them
Paloma who would have succoured them in exile

section one

Elizabeth I with Time and Death (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

James I (National Galleries of Scotland)

Accession medal of James I (British Museum, London)

Anne of Denmark, Marcus Gheerhaerts, c. 160510 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

Henry Prince of Wales and Sir John Harington, Robert Peake, 1603 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Charles Duke of York (the future Charles I), Robert Peake (City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery)

The monuments in Westminster Abbey to Princesses Mary and Sophia (Dean and Chapter of Westminster, London)

Princess Elizabeth, Robert Peake (National Maritime Museum, London)

Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, Franz Pourbus the Younger, c. 1599 (Royal Collection, Windsor Her Majesty the Queen)

Arbella Stuart, anon., 1589 (National Trust Photographic Library, London/John Bethell)

Ben Jonson (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

William Shakespeare (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

Engraving of the conspirators (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, Van Dyck (National Trust Photographic Library, London/Roy Fox)

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, (attrib.) John de Critz (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Sir Everard Digby (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Thomas Wintours two signatures (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

section two

Vestment embroidered by Helena Wintour (Stonyhurst College, Lancashire)

Thomas Habington of Hindlip and his wife (British Library, London)

The Browne Brothers, Isaac Oliver (Burghley House, Stamford)

Life in a recusant household, illustrated by a scene from the childhood of Mary Ward

Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Hindlip House, Worcestershire (British Library, London)

Baddesley Clinton (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Coughton Court (Coughton Court, Warwickshire)

Huddington Court (Huddington Court, Worcestershire)

Tower of London, c. 1615, Van Meer (Edinburgh University Library)

Map of Westminster (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive)

Ashby St Ledgers (Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire)

The cellars of the House of Lords (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Guy Fawkes entering Parliament (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

A contemporary Dutch print of the Gunpowder Plot (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

The anonymous letter delivered to Lord Monteagle (Public Record Office, London)

The delivery of the Monteagle letter to the Earl of Salisbury (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

section three

Garnets straw (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Father Henry Garnet, S.J., by Jan Wiericx (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

St Winifreds Well, Holywell, Clwyd (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Father Garnets last letter to Anne Vaux (Weidenfeld and Nicolson Archive, London)

Sir Edward Coke (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

The entry in the Commons Journal for 5 November 1605 (House of Lords Record Office, London)

Letter of King James authorising the torture of Guy Fawkes (Public Record Office, London)

Instruments of torture at the time of the Gunpowder Plot (Royal Armouries, HM Tower of London)

A late eighteenth-century print of the execution of the conspirators (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Guido Fawkes signatures before and after torture (British Library, London)

Embroidered cushion depicting the defeat of the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot, c. 1621 (Bridgeman Art Library, London)

Engraving of Father Garnet on the scaffold, C. Screta (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

The Powder Plot from A Thankful Remembrance of Gods Mercies, George Carleton, 1630 (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Victorian impression of Guy Fawkes being taken to the scaffold (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

Etching of Guy Fawkes laying his sinister trail, 1841 (Hulton Getty Collection Ltd, London)

The Papists Powder Treason (Henry E. Huntingdon Library and Art Gallery)

A monument to the Plots discovery, Tower of London, 1608, Sir William Waad (Historical Royal Palaces Crown Copyright)

The search of the cellars of the House of Lords (Times Newspapers Ltd, London)

Bonfire Night, 1994, Lewes, Sussex (Sussex Express, Lewes)