Fawkes was interrogated under torture. Since torture was forbidden except by the express instruction of the monarch or [the Privy Council]?, [King Kames I]? in a letter of 6 November stated: "The gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, et sic per gradus ad mia tenditur [and thus by increase to the worst], and so God speed your goode worke". On 7th November, Fawkes confessed all and revealed the names of his co-conspirators. |
Fawkes was interrogated under torture. Since torture was forbidden except by the express instruction of the monarch or [the Privy Council]?, [King James I]? in a letter of 6 November stated: "The gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, et sic per gradus ad mia tenditur [and thus by increase to the worst], and so God speed your goode worke". On 7th November, Fawkes confessed all and revealed the names of his co-conspirators. |