Pinnocks Improved Edition of Dr Goldsmiths History of England From the Inva
Pinnocks Improved Edition of Dr Goldsmiths History of England From the Inva
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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17. What was the name of the person engaged in this enterprise? and what was his conduct on being discovered ? SECTION II. Yet Raleigh left a deathless name, To learning dear, and dear to fame. — Dibdin. 1. (A. D. 1605) Catesby, Percy, and the conspirators who were in London, hearing that Fawkes was arrested, fled with all speed to Warwickshire, where Sir Everard 204 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Digby, relying on the success of the plot, was already in arms. But the country soon began to take the alarm,... and wherever they turned, they found a superior force ready to oppose them. 2. In this exigence, beset on all sides, they resolved, to the number of about eighty persons, to fly no further, but to make a stand at a house in Warwickshire, to defend it to the last, and sell their lives as dearly as possible. But even this miserable consolation was denied them ; a spark of fire happening to fall among some gunpowder that was laid to dry, it blew up, and so maimed the principal conspirators, that the survivors resolved to open the gate, and sally out against the multitude that surrounded the house.
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