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[Illustration: Execution of Guy Fawkes]




                         GUY FAWKES

                             OR

                   THE GUNPOWDER TREASON

                  _AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE_

                             BY
                WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH


      With Illustrations on Steel by George Cruikshank


                           LONDON
              GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, Limited

                 BROADWAY HOUSE, LUDGATE HILL




                LONDON AND COUNTY PRINTING WORKS,
                  BAZAAR BUILDINGS, LONDON, W.C.




                              TO

                           MRS. HUGHES,

                      KINGSTON LISLE, BERKS.


MY DEAR MRS. HUGHES,

You are aware that this Romance was brought to a close during my last
brief visit at Kingston Lisle, when the time necessary to be devoted to
it deprived me of the full enjoyment of your society, and, limiting my
range--no very irksome restriction,--to your own charming garden and
grounds, prevented me from accompanying you in your walks to your
favourite and beautiful downs. This circumstance, which will suffice to
give it some interest in your eyes by associating it with your
residence, furnishes me with a plea, of which I gladly avail myself, of
inscribing it with your name, and of recording, at the same time, the
high sense I entertain of your goodness and worth, the value I set upon
your friendship,--a friendship shared in common with some of the most
illustrious writers of our time,--and the gratitude I shall never cease
to feel for attentions and kindnesses, little less than maternal, which
I have experienced at your hands.

In the hope that you may long continue to diffuse happiness round your
own circle, and contribute to the instruction and delight of the many
attached friends with whom you maintain so active and so interesting a
correspondence; and that you may live to