The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-28
u,,A a,nnnowder Plot.

London Aaseneun,, we take the following
How little did the grave officers of the Con-
eistory Court, of which Guys father was one
how little did his kinsmen. the notary and the
merchant, dream, when they partook of the
pOsset i'm honor of his birth, of the end OF the
life story so joyously begun On that April day
of 1870, when he was held at the font of st.
Observation-Disclosures may still stand on the
very spot-and Elizabeth was Queen--how far
from the thoughts of those highly respectable
people must have been that all but accom-
plished catastrophe which was to send Pro-
festant royal family and two estates OF the realm
besides into the air, in order that "Papst"
successors might take their places! In the
minds eye one sees young Guy at the Rev.-
Mr.. Pulleyne's school in the Horse Fair, sitting
between Tom Morton, who afterwards became
Bishop of Durham, and the younger Cheke,
who was subsequently Sir John Cheke, Bart.
All three achieved a certain sort of greatness,
but Guy became the most notorious. Between
Horse Fair and school, Fawkes seems to have
taken more of the quality prevalent at the
former than at the latter; and that is perhaps
the reason why he never got into the groove
that leads to bishoprics, or rose to any dignity,
not even to n clerks stool in the Consistorial
office of his fcgal-minded sire Nevertheless,
Guys grandmother must have loved the boy,
for she left him her best silver whistle, with
which she used to call her servants. and an old
angel of gold, which dated perhaps from the
time vixen Edward coined that highly-prized
memorial of his well, but not easily won naval
victory off Sluys One may reasonably wonder
HuetuGE
dams angel for luck, and if the whistle ever
dealt out low or shrill signals, as Guy travelled
to and fro, from his lodging in st. Clement
Danes, which was standing but the other day,
to any Of these mysterious points whittier he
was sped to do q work which was to have such
woiul ending.
1t was, no doubt, misfortune to Guy that he
lost his father, the proctor, when he was but
nine years ofage. 1t was an evil day for him
moreover, when shis mother, Edith Fawkes
weary of widowhood of three years duration,
listened to the wooing of Denis Baynbridge of
Section, and, for his sake, gave up name, heart
and old faith. On the day she welded with her
Papist lover of Section, and took her son and
his sisters with her to her new home, her brother
recast his will. He omitted his sisters name
from it altogether, but he left to his two uieces
gold ring, bed, with pair of sheets and all
other appurtcnances. Scanty legacies
seemed to have soured Fawkes' temper
When he adopted the religion Of his stepfather
is not known-most likely it was as soon as his
mother did, and at her bidding. More certain
is it that when the old York proctors idle son
came of age and inherited all he could of his
fathers, he looked on the estate with scOrn. 1t
was not brilliant. 1t consisted chiefly of farm
house and an acre or two OF land which he let
to tailor named Lumlcy, for oue-and-twenty
years, at a rent Of ~ shillings year. What re-
manned of thSpaternal inheritance, the son sold
for a poor thirty pounds sterling. There was
some truth in what Guy Fawlles said, when he
afterwards ieH-intO the gripOf the law which
would not let him go again, MY father" he
said, 'left me but small living, and spent it,"
When he had spentBit, the world was his oys-
ter, as it was Pistols which he with sword
would OPEN After looking about him for awhile,
he resolved to go TO Spain. Spain was as a bank
for penniless adventurers who would serve il
unscrupulously and in spirit hostile to England.
Guy FaWkes has been called the Father of Per-
verts, and he was assuredly not the less well
come in Spain for his perversion Such persons
are supposed to form better tools than older in
gtVumpOtg lT m he b1t
the edges of which have been blunted by time
1t is a singular fact that the chief actor in the
practical part of the GunpOwder Plot should
have once been Protestant. 1t is
more singular that if not all, as Mr.. Dixon
says, yet that nearly all the foremost and open
actors therein, were of the same quality with
regard to religion as Guy Fawkes The truth
is that such men, If their ignorance be on q par
with their recklessness are the most easily
pushed to extreme and fatal deeds. To impress
on such men that Protestant king was by that
fact itself eXcOmmunicated, and that the Pope
had the right to punish an heretical and eXcom-
municated king, was only TO tell them that
assassination was lawful, and to make them
eager to slay sovereign in such condition, by
fire. sword, poison, or the more swiftly ayeng-
ing gunpoWQcr.
In the ADglo-Spanish Plot, which did not
altogether eliminate in that which takes its
name from the last swift and deadly ingre-
dent, there was, however, another chief actor.
Garnet is less familiar of course. to the general
eye than Fawkes because he was less before it;
but he was the soul of the whole affair. Take
the Dictionary of Jesuits" and you will read of
n being who has an aspect almost gOd-like, so
pure is he by principle, so earnest as n Chris
tian teacher, so humble and self-denying
as a man. The picture is, indeed, so highly var
nished that the details and even the main figure
itself are obscured. There is atmosphere
about them that is not of this earth--it is redo
lent of incense; and the figure has glory about
it significant OF q man who died martyr and
rose again-a saint. Such is the view of Garnet
in the Dictionary of Jesuits." 1t is in the fol-
lowing way he is drawn in this new volume of
Her Majesty's Tower
''The chief of this plot for many years was Henry
Garnet Prefect of the English Jesuits The Prefect,
square, bluff man. OF middle age, much worn by
care, if not by drink, and looking ten years older
than he was had string or different names IN ran
ders he was known as Father Greene, Father Whaey,
ana Father Roberts. In England he passed under
the priesty names of Father Garnet, Father Darcy,
and Father Valley; under the lay names or MIR.
Farmer and Mr. Mese. He had AZ many homes as
names not to speak of the houses OF his pententS
and pupils, Which were to him as homes; de had a
house called White Webbs, IN Enfield Chase; q
lodging in Thames street Queenhithe asecluded
residence on Wandsworth Common an old manor at
Firth, which he used for the coming ana gong OF ms
agents by the Thames. This man OF many names
and domiciles is said to have Kept merry table.
He was accused Of fondness for female society
Which III BECAME Pesb b ns ana S nae ev Of eyen
more than that of her sister Ann NauX. These
hints of an undue fondness for wine and women
rest, not on the words OF his Protestant enemies,
but on those OF his Catholic frlends-most OF ALL on
the words OF his fellowcOnfessors. 1t would be
fair to urge against Garnet all that was said of him
even by his fellows after he had played his game
and lost his lfe for the whole body of the secular
clergy hated him as an upstart and intruder ia their
Church, while many of his brethren in the Society,
blessed with more patient tempers and more
moderate hopes, disliked his memory as that
or man who had brought discredit on their crafr.
From neither side had Garnet much in the way of
hal ha OF Iattr