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The Gunpowder Plot was Faked
If you don’t know, the Gunpowder Plot was a Jesuit plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I and his Parliament, using boatloads of gunpowder, and then somehow restore the old Catholic monarchy. #gunpowderplot #GuyFawkes
If you don’t know, the Gunpowder Plot was a Jesuit plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I and his Parliament, using boatloads of gunpowder, and then somehow restore the old Catholic monarchy. #gunpowderplot #GuyFawkes
This terrorist plot has its roots in the Wars of the Roses, when the official state religion changed from Catholicism to Protestantism.
Suffice it to say, most Englishmen were still deeply and devoutly Catholic, and they were as distrustful of the Protestant religion as they were of the aristocratic families who were foisting it on them.
