Treason > Guy Fawkes, or The history of the gunpowder plot

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GUY FAWKES, OR THE GUNPOWDER Pf.OT.
jdot, ami regretted his having yielded to the
suggestion of his master, Oatesby, and engaged
in the conspiracy which had been attended
with such baneful fruits. He was then hanged
and quartered. Thus terminated the Thurs¬
day's proceedings
On the following day were drawn from the
Tower to the Old Palace in Westminster, over
against the Parliament House, where a scaf¬
fold was erected for their execution, Thomas
Winter, the younger brother, Ambrose Rook-
wood, Robert Keyes, and Guido Fawkes the
miner, by some called the ‘ devil of the vaults
of whom says an old author, ‘ had he not been
a devil incarnate, he had never conceived so
villanous a thought, nor been employed in so
damnable an action.1
Winter and Rook wood appeared sorry for
having been guilty of such a diabolical offence;
and, having hung a short time at the halter,
were dragged to the block, and there quickly
despatched.
Keyes made little or no show of repentance,
but went up the ladder in a most indifferent
manner, where, not staying long, he turned
himself off with a great leap which broke the
rope ; but after his fall, he was drawn to the
block, and divided into four parts.
Fawkes, who was much weakened by the
torture he had undergone for the purpose of
extracting from him any' statements that might
prejudice those of whom the Government enter¬
tained suspicions, with difficulty, and with the
assistance of the executioner, ascended the
scaffold, and expiated, with his life, the offence
of which he was the intended perpetrator.
James Brydone, Printer, 17 South Hanover Street, Edinburgh.