. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1831 -Chailes I. (Hail. MS. No. 6988 ). 1882. -Charles I and Armour-tearer. (Vandyke.) 1. 157 158 OLD ENGLAND. fBooK VI. their hearts to stop their life-supporting pulsations : it had becomeeverything to tliem. So even now that they knew the secret wasall but made public—they would go on; merely first satisfyingthemselves that the cellar had not been searched, by sending Fawkes,as yet ignorant of the letter, to examine it. He found all as he hadleft it; and then Catesby and
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1831 -Chailes I. (Hail. MS. No. 6988 ). 1882. -Charles I and Armour-tearer. (Vandyke.) 1. 157 158 OLD ENGLAND. fBooK VI. their hearts to stop their life-supporting pulsations : it had becomeeverything to tliem. So even now that they knew the secret wasall but made public—they would go on; merely first satisfyingthemselves that the cellar had not been searched, by sending Fawkes,as yet ignorant of the letter, to examine it. He found all as he hadleft it; and then Catesby and Winter excused themselves for havingplaced him in such danger without a warning; but he coolly replied,he would have gone just as readily if he had known all; and heundertook to return to the cellar once every day till the 5th ofNovember—and he kept his word with astonishing nerve throughthe doubtful and anxious time that followed. On Sunday the 3rd ofNovember, Lord Mounteagles gentleman informed the conspiratorsof the importance attached to the letter by King James. One can-not but pity and sympathize with the sufferings of Tresham, fr
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