The Gunpowder Plot

sort of... he was a trusted servent of James I and he was the person who tried to stop it from happening. But then it is thought that he was behind the plot and he was the one who wrote the letter to Lord Monteagle. The reason behind this is that he hated Catholics and he wanted to get rid of them.

If you want to know more details look here-

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/gunpowder_plot_of_1605.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/robert_cecil.htm

Nobody knows wheather he was or not, but evidence shows us that he could have been working as the King's incider but the plot in itself at home!

Remember, remember,

the Fifth of November

And keep memories alive,

Of Sixteen-Oh-Five.

they wanted a Catholic monarch on the throne they wanted a Catholic monarch on the throne

Robert Catesby, Guy Fawkes, Sir Everard Digby, and Sir Ambrose Rookwood.

Catholics were raped in the streets for about a year. afterwards, laws were brought in to give them more respect and only the youngest daughters of strong catholics could be raped.

After a letter was sent to Lord Monteagle, not to attend the State opening. Guy Fawkes was left in the cellar to light the explosives after they were ready. Guards were searching around after the letter had come. The guards found Guy Fawkes in the cellar after a last check. Guy Fawkes was tortured for the names of the other plotters. Some were found and shot as some were found and were hung with Guy Fawkes.

I believe that seen as religion was taken very seriously during 1605 i believe that the King would be harsh on other catholics. King James would also not trust any catholics and treat them like they were a low class.

The Gunpowder Plot was intended to blow up the English "House of Lords" while the King was conducting the state opening. This would have killed or injured the King, most of his Ministers and the Members of both houses. This would effectively have destroyed the government of England, and left Scotland without a king and several important figures in attendance at the English Parliament.

The resulting chaos throughout Britain would have permitted a Catholic Rising to replace James with his Daughter and possibly reverse or alter the Reformation in favour of the Catholics. However the plot was not particularly well organised and probably wouldn't have got that far even if the gunpowder had gone off.

The gunpowder plot was discovered when a member of Guy Fawkes' gang wrote a letter to one of his friends that was going to be in parliament on the day of the plot, telling him to stay away from there and why. The friend showed the letter to parliament, and they then sent guards to search the houses. In one of the cellars they found Guy Fawkes, ready to light the fuse.

There was conflict between the catholics and the king.The Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament while the King was there holding an important meeting. They hired Guy Fawkes! Unfortunately one of the MP's had been warned about the explosion and he alerted everyone. Guards were sent to look for the gun powder and they found Guy Fawkes with it!!! He was tortured horribly until he confessed. People wonder who it was sho told the MP the plan!!

hope it helps...jessxxx

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General shock, sympathy to James I and popular support for commemorations of the plot such as sermons and November 5th

We will never know...

Well you have to consider all facts . Because James I was scottish and wanted people to like him so he could of set the whole thing up but as the person above said we will never know :)

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There are lots of reasons to believe that the gunpowder plot was set up and lots to believe it was a genuine plot. read the book 'the making of the UK 1500-1750' it has quite alot of information and sources on page 56-59.

The House of Lords (the "Upper" House of the British Parliament which has the important role of reviewing Bills prior to enactment as Acts of Parliament) has not been abolished, but it has been significantly reformed to exclude hereditary peers from most of its serious political work.

Hereditary peers (ie those who hold inherited titles - baronet, lord etc) no longer have automatic right of attendance at debates (fewer than 100 now attend/ vote etc); the vast majority of politically active lords are "Life Peers", that is people who've been awarded titles for life only (no one inherits these - the title dies with the holder); usually in recognition of long & distinguished service in public life (eg former Prime Ministers, & many former Cabinet Ministers), the military/ police, business & industry, or science & medicine.

Senior Bishops ("Lords Spiritual") continue to sit in the House of Lords.

The "Law Lords" (ie the most senior judges in the UK) no longer sit in the House of Lords: there is now a "Supreme Court" located elsewhere in Westminster where they exercise their role as ultimate arbiters of constitutional matters & highest appeal court in Britain.

the plotters were catholic

'Cus he might get annoyed and spaz out and jump out of a window where some terrorist guy sees him and goes 'alalalalalala' and blows him up, but neither he nor the terrorist are dead, so 'John Johnson' suggests that the terrorist should in fact but rape James. Now that's what I call a threat!

Guido Fawkes-He was in charge of everything WRONG!

Robert Catesby-He was the leader

Thomas Percy-He was the plotter

Francis Trasham-He arrived in the group after it had all been plotter so he didn't really have a major part in the plot.

The Barons did not like the fact that the King could not do as he wanted, so they revolted, parliament was one of the conditions of peace.

guy Fawkes was caught, about to light the gunpowder. he was tortured for about two days until he told who else was involved with the plot. (sorry, i can't remember their names) they found, i think, all the plotters. four were killed trying to resist arrest and four more were hung, drawn and quartered.

hope this helps!

No, he was found out and tourtured to his death

King James I dealt severely with Catholic Christians; locking them up in prison ordering for their murder and taking their money simply because they followed a foreign leader, alias The Pope. The Catholics were annoyed at this and decided to take action through a group of plotters and their Leader Guido Fawkes (Guy Fawkes); and realised that killing the King not only would they triumph amongst normal Christians thus popularising Catholicism, they could also bring a Catholic-born King/Queen to power.

Guido Fawkes and his gang of plotters decided they would murder the King by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while the court was in session, not just killing themselves and the king, but his councillors too. Francis Tresham knew a man that would be there, namely Lord Mounteagle, so decided to write a letter to him asking for the Lord to make up an excuse to miss the council that day, for he felt he would be held responsible for his death. The Lord received this letter from a man in disguise, and obviously thought that this was strange so consulted the King. The councillors laughed at the idea, but James believed this to be a gunpowder plot. Some people were sent down to the cellars to investigate, and found Fawkes waiting to set off the gunpowder. Gunpowder was restricted in those days, and it is said that Fawkes and his men bought the barrels off of Cecil.

In my opinion, I think the whole thing was in fact just a set up made by Robert Cecil (King James' Right-hand man) and Francis Tresham (was seen with Cecil on November 5th, and was the one who sent the letter to Monteagle; this implies that Tresham was like the Devil's advocate, in the way that he was seen to have been on the plotters' side as well!) , in a plot to get back at the Catholics. I can prove this because the letter that was sent to Monteagle was done nothing to by the government and no actions were took until November 4th; the 36 barrels of Gunpowder were bought off Cecil, the only man who could give it to them since he was a man of the Government; Historical records for 1605 were mysteriously destroyed; and the government always knew who the conspirators were (why would they tell them where they were anyway?!) I think by all these pieces of evidence that the plotters were framed by Cecil and his men. With him and the rest of the Government just wanting the Catholics out of the way, he may have just put them in this position and execution to scare the other Catholics in England. Most of the evidence collected seems to suggest that Fawkes and the other Conspirators were framed.

He was a co conspirator. After the discovery of the plot, Percy was killed at Holbeche House on November 8, 1605.

King James I's mother and wife were both Catholics, so many Catholics believed that James became king, he would support Catholisism and help it grow. But he didn't do this and this angered many Catholics. So Catesby, Fawkes and three others devised plans to blow up the king. They ended up on 5th november 1605 with 13 people and 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the house of Lords. They were very close to succeeding.