nd of January, 1606, the whole of the conspirators, at that time
in custody, being eight in number, were brought to their trial in
Westminster Hall, and were all tried upon one indictment, except Sir E.
Digby, who had a separate trial. On Thursday, January 30th, Sir E. Digby,
Robert Wintour, John Grant, and Thomas Bates, were executed at the west end
of St. Paul's Church, and on the next day Thomas Wintour, Ambrose
Rookewood, Robert Keys, and Guy Fawkes, suffered within the Old Palace-yard
at Westminster.

On the 28th of February, 1606, Garnet was brought to trial at Guildhall,
before nine Commissioners specially appointed for that purpose. Of his
participation in the plot there was no doubt; and he admitted himself
criminal in not revealing it, although, as he asserts, it was imparted to
him only in confession: but it is more than probable that the valuable
papers, lately rescued from oblivion, and preserved in his Majesty's State
Paper Office, will be able to prove his extensive connexion with the plot,
his knowledge of it, both _in_ and _out_ of confession, and his influential
character with all the conspirators.

Garnet was hanged on the 3rd of May, 1606, on a scaffold, erected for that
purpose, at the west end of St. Paul's Church. Held up to infamy by one
party as a rebel and a traitor, and venerated as a saint and a martyr by
the other; the same party spirit, and the same conflicting opinions, have
descended from generation to generation, down to the controversialists of
the present day.

We subjoin the Autographs of some of the principal conspirators, from the
same source as the preceding narrative, as an appropriate and equally
authentic accompaniment:--

_Robert Catesbye_.--Taken from an original letter from Catesbye to his
cousin, John Grant, entreating him to provide money against a certain time.
This autograph is very rare.

_Guido Fawkes_.--Taken from his declaration made in the Tower on the 19th
of November, and afterwards acknowledged before the Lord's Commissioners.

_Thomas Percy_.--From an original letter to W. Wycliff, Esq. of York, dated
at Gainsborough, November 2nd, 1605.

_Henry Garnet_.--From one of his examinations, wherein he confessed to have
been in pilgrimage to St. Winifred's Well.

_Ambrose Rookewood_.--From an original letter, declared that he had felt a
scruple of conscience, the fact seeming "too bluddy."

_Thomas Wintour_.--From an original examination before the Lord's
Comm