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Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason

Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason

by William Harrison Ainsworth

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Author
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Title
Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance
Credits
Produced by Robert Cicconetti, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Fawkes, Guy, 1570-1606 -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
37750
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37750
Release Date
October 13, 2011
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.TO MRS. HUGHES, — KINGSTON LISLE, BERKS.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.GUY FAWKES.
  6. 6.THE PLOT.
  7. 7.AN EXECUTION IN MANCHESTER, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
  8. 8.ORDSALL CAVE.
  9. 9.ORDSALL HALL
  10. 10.THE SEARCH.
  11. 11.CHAT MOSS.
  12. 12.THE DISINTERMENT.
  13. 13.DOCTOR DEE.
  14. 14.THE MAGIC GLASS.
  15. 15.THE PRISON ON SALFORD BRIDGE.
  16. 16.THE FATE OF THE PURSUIVANT.
  17. 17.THE PILGRIMAGE TO ST. WINIFRED'S WELL.
  18. 18.THE VISION.
  19. 19.THE CONSPIRATORS.
  20. 20.THE PACKET.
  21. 21.THE ELIXIR.
  22. 22.THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH AT MANCHESTER.
  23. 23.THE RENCOUNTER.
  24. 24.THE EXPLANATION.
  25. 25.THE DISCOVERY.
  26. 26.THE DEPARTURE FROM THE HALL.
  27. 27.THE DISCOVERY.
  28. 28.THE LANDING OF THE POWDER.
  29. 29.THE TRAITOR.
  30. 30.THE ESCAPE PREVENTED.
  31. 31.THE MINE.
  32. 32.THE CAPTURE OF VIVIANA.
  33. 33.THE CELLAR.
  34. 34.THE STAR-CHAMBER.
  35. 35.THE JAILER'S DAUGHTER.
  36. 36.THE COUNTERPLOT.
  37. 37.WHITE WEBBS.
  38. 38.THE MARRIAGE IN THE FOREST.
  39. 39.THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.
  40. 40.THE FLIGHT OF THE CONSPIRATORS.
  41. 41.THE EXAMINATION.
  42. 42.THE CONSPIRATORS.
  43. 43.HOW GUY FAWKES WAS PUT TO THE TORTURE.
  44. 44.SHOWING THE TROUBLES OF VIVIANA.
  45. 45.HUDDINGTON.
  46. 46.HOLBEACH.
  47. 47.THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION.
  48. 48.HAGLEY.
  49. 49.VIVIANA'S LAST NIGHT AT ORDSALL HALL.
  50. 50.HENDLIP.
  51. 51.WHITEHALL.
  52. 52.THE PARTING OF VIVIANA AND HUMPHREY CHETHAM.
  53. 53.THE SUBTERRANEAN DUNGEON.
  54. 54.THE TRAITOR BETRAYED.
  55. 55.THE TRIAL.
  56. 56.THE LAST MEETING OF FAWKES AND VIVIANA.
  57. 57.SAINT PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.
  58. 58.OLD PALACE YARD.
  59. 59.THE LAST EXECUTION.

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