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Title: Guy Fawkes
or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605

Author: Thomas Lathbury

Release Date: January 20, 2010 [EBook #31031]

Language: English

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GUY FAWKES;

OR,

A COMPLETE HISTORY

OF

THE GUNPOWDER TREASON,
A.D. 1605;

WITH

A DEVELOPEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLES OF
THE CONSPIRATORS,

AND

SOME NOTICES OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1688.

BY THE

REV. THOMAS LATHBURY, M.A.,

AUTHOR OF "A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH EPISCOPACY, FROM 1640 TO 1662,"
AND "THE STATE OF POPERY AND JESUITISM IN ENGLAND FROM
THE REFORMATION, TILL 1829."

LONDON:
JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XXXIX.

PREFACE.

Though the particulars connected with the Gunpowder Treason may be
perused in the general histories of the period, yet I am not aware, that
any modern narrative of that dark design is to be found in a separate
form. Many brief sketches have, indeed, been published in various modern
works: but no full and complete history of the Treason has ever been set
forth. In compiling the present volume, I have collected, from various
quarters, all the information which I could discover on the subject. It
will be found to be the most complete narrative of the Treason ever
published in a detached form: at the same time it is sufficiently
concise not to weary the patience of the reader.

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