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Some believe that the Catholics were framed by the King in the gunpowder plot because:

- Guy Fawkes managed to get the 36 barrels of gunpowder very easily even though all gunpowder was kept in the Tower of London and controlled by the Government. No one even noticed they were missing!

-The cellar was rented to the plotters by John Whynniard, a king's official and a friend of Cecil (who worked for the King and hated Catholics).

-Lord Mounteagle, had a friend amongst the Catholics, and was delivered an anonymous letter by a disguised messenger on 26th October. The letter said the houses of Parliament would receive a 'big blow'.

-Mounteagle showed the letter to the King the next day, who somehow immediately knew that it meant a gunpowder explosion. But strangely enough he took no action until the 4th November.

-The King somehow knew where all the plotters were and surrounded them at Holbeach House- they did not resist arrest, some were shot dead.

-The signature of Guy Fawkes when he signed the confession was different to his normal signature. This could of been because he'd been tortured or it was an imposter impersonating the signature- but you would have thought an imposter would know what the signature looked like.

-An Italian visitor in 1605 said: 'Some hold it as certain that there has been foul play and that some of the government secretly spun a web to entangle these poor gentleman'.

-John Whynniard died mysteriously on the 5th of November, The day of the meeting.

-It also happened that the final result was exactly what the King (James I) and Cecil wanted!

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11y ago

No the plotters were just found out.

It was claimed that the plot was discovered by the sheer stupidity of one of the men involved. His brother was working in the parliament the night the plotters planned to blow it up. So this plotter sent a letter to his brother warning him to stay out of the parliament because something bad was going to happen to it on a certain date. Hence, they were caught.

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No the plotters were not framed, cause Guy Fawkes was caught before he lit the fuse! And he was then tourtered in to telling on his co-workers! So therefore the plotters were not framed!

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Yes the plotters were framed because Robert Cecil wanted to show the Catholics that England was staying a Protestant country.

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yes they where they where framed

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Guido Fawkes

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