Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-06
WAKEMAN'S WANDERINGS
THE OLD tI-ME OF THE GATES
BYS.

Where tho Famous Guy Fawkes' Gun
powder Plot" Was Coneooteh.
Copyright, 1871. by Edgar L. wakeman.l
AsHBY 81. LEDGERs, Sept. 2L-One feel
quite a prideful thrill Of original discover
ifhe can hit upon object OF place in al
Europe where the great American glob
trotter has not already come; took a hast,
glance; photographed everybody and every
thing with a snap camera or upon hi
majestic memory; Clipped off a piece OF
the object or shrine for his collection
made half a dozen notes with a style
graphic pen for future reference. cut hi
name and the date of his visit upon an,
available woodwork about the spot, OF
otherwise left his mark; and then with
"biffr' and "zipi' projected himself meteor
ically through space TO the next pleasing
or hideous object Of interest.
| have found one spot in Great Britain
where there is at least no local record o
the species. The fact is a noteworthy on,
and the place itself possesses e%xtraordinar,
interest. Il is called Ashby St. Ledgers
To be very definite regarding a locality s.,
distinctive for its so far quite unknown
beauties and interest, it is but a tiny evil
lage four miles north from Daventry, six
teen from Northampton, in the middivi
sion Of the county Of Northampton, hun
dred Of Fawsley, petty seasonal division
union snd county court district Of Daven
try, rural deanery of Daveutry, archdea
conry Of Northampton and diocese Of Peter
borough"
The taNgstherers OF the crown have
thus infinitely located the village and par
ish, and 20 make IL perfectly accessible e
those who do" Ireland. Scotland anc
England In one week or less il should DE
added that Ashby st. Ledgers is but If
teen minutes walk westward from WiltCr
station, on the main line Of the L0ndot
and Northwestern railway from London &c
the noted school town Of Rugby, and that
the most famous conspiracy in Englist
history, popularity known as Guy Fawkes
~GunpOwder Plot was cOncocted withir
the sunny, s~lualbrous precincts Of its now
crumbling and ivy covered walls
To the casual student Of history the
chief incidents of the plot may properly be-
recalled Stripped Of their usual bigoteC
ver0iage, 10 was a plan originated By Sin
Robert Cauesby, lord Of this very manor
and other malcontents, including Thomn
Percy, Christopher and John Wright
Thomas and Robert Winter, one Bates
and their Drawer tool. Guido Tor Guy
Faux Tor Fawkesl, representing the enc
49, NAAaAI A. AANA ANAEllAN EAEhaNeA Nl
the throne under the union Of the English
and Scottish crowns, and shortly there
after proclaimed king Of Great Britain &C
remove an obnoxious government ia .ht
concrete, king, lords and commons. at {
single explosion Of ~gunpowder, instead o
by a great and protracted waste Of gun
powder through prolonged and cruel civil
war, through which an entire nation IL
often all butdestroyed.
This was probably the c-onspirators' con
siderate and pleasant view Of the matter
They rented a fine cellar Immediately IN
der parliament house and succeeded il
concealing within it thirty barrels and -four
hogsheads Of gunpowder, covered witt
billets and faggots Of wood. great iron bars
stones" etc, besides young and ambition.
Mr.. Fawkes, wrapped in a cloak anc
booted u spurred, - and provided with
"a dark lanthorn and a finder boxe with
which to set of the touchwood," which
communicating with the thirty barrels anc
four hogsheads Of ~gunpowder, at the in
slant Of the kings converting parliament
Nov. D. 1908, was expected TO give imme
date relief to the political situation.
However, by means Of an nvm
letter % Lord Monteagle, whom some one
Of the cOnspirators desired to save. the
fN IAAfNANAH NOAAA WI hEa J.
the pictures represent as having foi
time neglected his hair and beard
dragged out Of his mysterious sur
.roundings, spread upon a convenient rack
a confession. and shortly afte!
hung; while Percy, Catesby, Winter and the
we Wrights were chased from this place
through Warwickshire to Holbeach, iu
S~taffordshire, where they were all slain
TO the death. except Winter. he
captured alive, 70 die on the gallows
md a sufficient number of others, directly
Or supposititiously connected with this
mad effort to proclaim the young Princess
Elizabeth queen in place Of James, to ap
the most fastidious and exactine
'eliGio-political feeling Of the time, and
'ause succeeding generations to
Remember, remember
The Fifth OF November.
GUnpowder, Treason and Plot
we're put TO death in the Old Palace yerr
I Westminster and at St. PauI's.
The manor Of st. Ledgers, the former
Of the arch co~nspirator, Sir Robert
,atesby, is one Of the most ancient IL
irltaln. IL possesses an eventful history
am indebted for its romantic narrative tc
ny host, Major II. p. Senhouse, its pres
Mt proprietor and lord Of the manor
nlA rum AA1 peculiar Interest,", IN view OF I
{. Ledgers' individual historic associa /
.ons, It is most curious and fascinating /
) illustrative Of the extraordinary re I
orded' not traditional, age Of innumera !
lie English estates, their frequent strange /,
icissitudes, and the almost purely historic
which might be written upon al I
lost any single piece Of entailed manorial q
in England. '
The manor was granted by William the :
onqueror to Hugh de Grentmasnil over q
o years ago. At the time "Domesday =
the first tax boob Of England, was \
repaired QOSO-6, this Hugh de Grentmas b
U held four hides" Of land in Ashby c
here were eight acres Of meadow, and the b
hole Wa then valued at sixty shiIlingA Z
his Hugh accompanied the on :.
8 expedition TO England and was 70 =
Arded for his services with upward OF a
0 manors in different counties, twenty OF a
hich lay in Northamptonshire. He was a
ISOLATED with Odo, bishop Of Bayeaux b
ID William Fitz-Osborn in executing thu =
gh ONCE Of justiciary Of England tive !.
Ars after the conquest, and died in 1904 .
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