What was the effects of the gunpowder plot?

Answer 1

Between 1533 and 1540, the Tudor King Henry VIII, due to the Papal refusal to annul his first marriage broke off relations with the Vatican and began the Church of England (1533-1540). English Catholics became increasingly uncomfortable to this new semi- Protestant Church of England. The head of the English Church was the King, the Roman Church, the Pope.

Elizabeth I succeeded Henry VIII, , sensed the religious tension and introduced the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, requiring all appointments to public office or church office to swear allegiance to the monarch.

James I succeeded Elizabeth I. Although James attempted to reconcile the religious divide, a conspiracy arose in which certain Catholics intended to dynamite the proceeding of the opening of the parliament. They hoped to kill the King James, members of the Privy Council, senior English judges, most of the Protestant aristocracy, and the bishops of the Church of England and members of Parliament.

In 1604, led by Robert Catesby, nobleman with fanatic Catholic sympathies, he invited Thomas Wintour and John Wright to undertake the blowing up the Parliament during the Opening ceremonies.

Wintour travelled to Flanders to rto gather support for the plot. He recruited Guy Fawkes, a Catholic soldier in the Southern Netherlands, who had also petitioned the Spanish Court in invade England.

The first meeting began on May 20, 1604.

On October 26, wary of harming good Catholics an anonymous letter cryptically describing the plot went to On Saturday 26 October. Eventually, on November 1, 1604, the letter alerted the King to the plot. He commanded an investigation wherein Guy Fawkes was found. Many were severely sentenced to for this conspiracy.

In his speech to both Houses on November 9, 1604, King James focused on two subjects: the Divine Right of Kings and the Catholic question. He maintained his divine mission but minimized those Catholics involved in the plots as a "few fanatics."

Today, Great Britain commemorates" Guy Fawkes Day" (or Night or Bonfire Night) on November 5th, the night Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot, was caught guarding explosives placed beneath the House of Lords and arrested.