BOOK the Second.
THE DISCOVERY.
The next point to be considered is the means to compass and work these designs.

These means were most cruel and damnable;--by mining, and by thirty-six barrels of powder, having crows of iron, stones, and wood, laid upon the barrels, to have made the breach the greater.

Lord! what a wind, what a fire, what a motion and commotion of earth and air would there have been!--_Sir Edward Coke's Speech on the Trial of the Conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot._.