Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIARY WALTER YONGE, ESQ. Anno Domini 1604 was the greatest pestilence in London that ever was heard of or known by any man living. There died above 3000 weekly. We had such exceeding drought in all parts of England, that all grass in all pkces, yea the best meadows by the river sides, were all burnt up. in...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DIARY WALTER YONGE, ESQ. Anno Domini 1604 was the greatest pestilence in London that ever was heard of or known by any man living. There died above 3000 weekly. We had such exceeding drought in all parts of England, that all grass in all pkces, yea the best meadows by the river sides, were all burnt up. in such sort that all men thought it impossible that we should have any grass grow before the spring following. The very roots of the grass were generally withered away and dry; yet, through the great goodness of God, never a better after-spring seen in any man's memory, at the end of June; and most plenty of grass when people did most despair thereof. Nov. 5, 1605. This day there was a horrible treason intended to be put in practice against the King (James the First), the queen, the prince, all the nobility, the bishops, and chiefest clergy of this land, which were to be assembled at this day in Parliament The design was to blow up the parliament house with gunpowder. The chiefactors were Johnson, alias Fawkes, alias Forster, alias Browne, who should have set the powder on fire; Thomas Percy, a pensioner, Catesbie, Robert Winter, Graunt, Ruckwood, Thomas Winter, Cays, Bates, Sir Everard Digby. There were also of the nobility (ut fama est) privy thereunto, the Earl of Northumberland, Lord Stourton, Lord Mordaunt, Lord Lumley, Lord Vaux. It was discovered by a letter written to the Lord Mounteagle (and as though by Sir Francis Tresham, one of the conspirators), but without any name to it Upon the discovery Percy, Catesbie, Robert and Thomas Winter, fled from London into Warwickshire; where they raised the county, took certain great horses, to the number of fourteen, out of the town of Warwick; from thence went into Staffordshire, being in all sixty or eighty horse; where...