Fun with Recusants

In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, the eminent scholar Eamon Duffy has a review of two books that are definitely on my list:  God's Secret Agents:  Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot, by Alice Hogge; and Remember, Remember:  A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day, by James Sharpe.

Maybe my connection with this famous Jesuit explains my interest . . .   Actually, there *is* a "legal" point to all this.  Fr. Henry Garnet, S.J., was (in)famous for his "Treatise of Equivocation" (which was found, apparently, in the possession of one of the Gunpowder plotters).  (In Macbeth, the Porter in one scene pretends to welcome to Hell an "equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale.")