Note 164 — Chapter LXI
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— In this connection the following words of the conspirator John Grant should be remembered. After the Jury had found a verdict of “guilty” against the prisoners, at Westminster Hall, on being asked what he could say wherefore judgment of death should not be pronounced against him, Grant replied, “He was guilty of a conspiracy intended, but never effected.”
Cf. Wordsworth’s Sonnet on the Gunpowder Plot, which is very penetrating.