Chapter II: Preface: v

Book the First.

THE PLOT.

CHAPTER

I. AN EXECUTION IN MANCHESTER, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 1

II. ORDSALL CAVE 10

III. ORDSALL HALL 12

IV. THE SEARCH 26

V. CHAT MOSS 31

VI. THE DISINTERMENT 49

VII. DOCTOR DEE 50

VIII. THE MAGIC GLASS 56

IX. THE PRISON ON SALFORD BRIDGE 62

X. THE FATE OF THE PURSUIVANT 66

XI. THE PILGRIMAGE TO SAINT WINIFRED'S WELL 71

XII. THE VISION 83

XIII. THE CONSPIRATORS 87

XIV. THE PACKET 98

XV. THE ELIXIR 105

XVI. THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH AT MANCHESTER 115

XVII. THE RENCOUNTER 129

XVIII. THE EXPLANATION 131

XIX. THE DISCOVERY 133

XX. THE DEPARTURE FROM THE HALL 139

Book the Second.

THE DISCOVERY.

I. THE LANDING OF THE POWDER 147

II. THE TRAITOR 156

III. THE ESCAPE PREVENTED 163

IV. THE MINE 169

V. THE CAPTURE OF VIVIANA 179

VI. THE CELLAR 187

VII. THE STAR-CHAMBER 195

VIII. THE JAILER'S DAUGHTER 198

IX. THE COUNTERPLOT 212

X. WHITE WEBBS 220

XI. THE MARRIAGE IN THE FOREST 228

XII. THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 237

XIII. THE FLIGHT OF THE CONSPIRATORS 245

XIV. THE EXAMINATION 255

Book the Third.

THE CONSPIRATORS.

I. HOW GUY FAWKES WAS PUT TO THE TORTURE 262

II. SHOWING THE TROUBLES OF VIVIANA 274

III. HUDDINGTON 278

IV. HOLBEACH 292

V. THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION 294

VI. HAGLEY 304

VII. VIVIANA'S LAST NIGHT AT ORDSALL HALL 313

VIII. HENDLIP 319

IX. WHITEHALL 327

X. THE PARTING OF VIVIANA AND HUMPHREY CHETHAM 331

XI. THE SUBTERRANEAN DUNGEON 332

XII. THE TRAITOR BETRAYED 336

XIII. THE TRIAL 341

XIV. THE LAST MEETING OF FAWKES AND VIVIANA 344

XV. SAINT PAUL'S CHURCHYARD 347

XVI. OLD PALACE YARD 352

XVII. THE LAST EXECUTION 355

GUY FAWKES.

Book the First.

THE PLOT.

Their searches are many and severe. They come either in the night
or early in the morning, and ever seek their opportunity, when the
Catholics are or would be best occupied, or are likely to be worse
provided or look for nothing. They willingliest come when few are
at home to resist them, that they may rifle coffers, and do what
they list. They lock up the servants, and the mistress of the
house, and the whole family, in a room by themselves, while they,
like young princes, go rifling the house at their will.

_Letter to Vers'egan, ap. Stonyhurst MSS._

What a thing is it for a Catholic gentleman to have his house
suddenly beset on all sides with a number of men in arms, both
horse and foot! and not only his house and gardens, and such
enclosed places all beset, but all highways laid, for some miles
near unto him, that none shall pass, but they shall be examined!
Then are these searchers oft-times so rude and barbarous, that, if
the doors be not opened in the instant they would enter, they
break open the doors with all violence, as if they were to sack a
town of enemies won by the sword.

_Father Gerard's MS._