The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter, Being a Proof, with Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document / Together with Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes

PLOWLAND HOUSE, HOLDERNESS, E.R. YORKSHIRE.
BY HENRY HAWKES SPINK, Jun. ( A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England ).
“ Veritas temporis filia. Truth is the daughter of Time, especially in this case, wherein, by timely and often examinations, matters of greatest moment have been found out.” — Sir Edward Coke ( the Attorney-General who prosecuted the eight surviving conspirators ).
“Suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on Wrong.” — Lord Acton.
“History, it is said, revises the verdicts of contemporaries, and constitutes an Appeal Court nearest to the ordeal of heaven.” — Dr. James Martineau.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LINDLEY SECOND VISCOUNT HALIFAX OF HICKLETON AND GARROWBY IN THE COUNTY OF YORK ONE OF YORKSHIRE’S MOST GIFTED AND DISTINGUISHED SONS THIS BOOK WHICH AMONGST OTHER THINGS TELLS OF SOME OF THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF CERTAIN YORKSHIREMEN IN THE DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE IS (BY KIND PERMISSION) MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.

Bland’s Court, Coney Street, York.
To the Right Honourable Viscount Halifax. My Lord,
The book which your characteristic generosity has permitted me to dedicate to you wears a two-fold aspect. For it is as to one portion — and predominantly — an Inquiry taking the form of a discourse with questions and proofs, propositions and demonstrations. While as to another portion — but subordinately — it is a History taking the form of a narrative of events, a relation of mental occurrences, a statement of concrete facts. Now these twain aspects will be found duly to play their respective parts in the course of the subsequent pages, in accordance with a selected order and method.
With most of the allegations of fact and the inferences therefrom, and with many of the assumptions and conclusions which this work contains, your Lordship will agree. From others you will disagree. Whilst in the case of a third class, it may be that you will deem a suspension of judgment to be the part which wisdom and justice alike enjoin.