Celebrated trials : and Remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence, from the earliest records to the year 1825 . and Francis Tresham ; that our said sovereign lord theking, the nobility, clergy, and whole commonalty of the realm ofEngland, (papists excepted) were heretics; and that all hereticswere accursed and excommunicated ; and that no heretic couldbe king; but that it was lawful and meritorious to kill our saidsovereign lord the king, and all other heretics within this realm ofEngland, for the advancing and enlargement of the pretended andusurped authority and jurisdiction of the Bishop o
Celebrated trials : and Remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence, from the earliest records to the year 1825 . and Francis Tresham ; that our said sovereign lord theking, the nobility, clergy, and whole commonalty of the realm ofEngland, (papists excepted) were heretics; and that all hereticswere accursed and excommunicated ; and that no heretic couldbe king; but that it was lawful and meritorious to kill our saidsovereign lord the king, and all other heretics within this realm ofEngland, for the advancing and enlargement of the pretended andusurped authority and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, and forrestoring the superstitious Romish religion within this realm ofEngland; to which traitorous perMiasions the said Thomas Win-ter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Catesby,Thomas Percy, John Wright, Christopher Weight, and FrancisTresham, traitorously did jield their assents ; and that thereuponthe said Henry Garnet, Oswald Tesmond, John Gerrard, and diversother Jesuits; Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, andThomas Bates j as also the said Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John. g © h ^ p* 1=1 N CO £ © ^ u ^^ H f=g N * 1 r- I ,1 ? a %* fc £ © S S H THE GUNPOWDER CONSPIRATORS. 271 Wright, Christopher Wright, and Francis Tresham, traitorouslyamong themselves concluded and agreed with gunpowder, as itwere with one blast, suddenly to blow up and tear in pieces oursovereign lord the king ; the excellent, virtuous, and gracious queenAnne, his dearest wife ; the most noble prime Henry, their eldestson, the future hope and joy of England ; and the lords spiritualand temporal; the reverend judges of the realm; the knights,citizens, and burgesses of the parliament, and divers other faithfulsubjects and servants of the king, in the said parliament, for thesaid causes aforesaid, to be assembled in the parliament-house,and all of them, without any respect of majesty, dignity, degree,sex, age, or place ; most barbarously, and more than beastly, trai-torousl
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