What Was the Gunpowder Plot? the Traditional Story Tested By Original Evidence
What Was the Gunpowder Plot? the Traditional Story Tested By Original Evidence
John Gerard
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Coke,^ it is said : " The powder was first brought into Percy's house, and lay there in a low room new built, and could not have been conveyed into the cellar by the old door but that all the street must have seen it ; and therefore he caused a new door out of his house into the cellar to be made, where before there had been a grate of iron." This, it must be confessed, looks very like an after- thought to explain away a difficulty, but failing to do so. When the door is said to have been made,... the powder was already on the premises, having been brought there in sight of the whole street and the river. It could hardly, in so small a tenement, escape the observation of the workmen," while the operations of these latter in breaking through the wall ^ Tanner MSS. Ixxv. § 185, b. ' Faukes, November 6th, uses the same expression, " a low room new builded," which seems to imply that this receptacle had been constructed since Percy came into possession of the house. DlFF^ICULTiES ABOUT THE "CELLAR." 89 would have served yet farther to attract the attention of the neighbourhood.
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