![]() In Faith and Treason, she strikes a balanced note. She writes well, tells stories lucidly, and has a demonstrated command of the period. Protestant apologists claim the Plot was real, the danger was real, and only narrowly averted (by God's special favor).Īntonia Fraser is a leading popular historian of the Tudor and Stuart periods of English history, as well as an accomplished novelist. Catholic apologists have claimed that the whole thing was invented by Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, King James' chief minister, and master of a vast intelligence network, with the assistance of Sir Edward Coke as Crown Prosecutor. The Gunpowder Plot has long been highly controversial. England still celebrates Guy Fawkes' Day to celebrate the failure of the Gunpowder Plot and, among other things, Beefeaters still search the basements of Westminster (in full regalia, no less). The (purported) plot was discovered in the nick of time. ![]() In 1605, Catholic militants disappointed by James I's failure to move towards toleration (allegedly) tried to blow up Parliament by piling gunpowder in a basement. Few tales better illustrate the old saw, "truth is stranger than fiction," than the story of the Gunpowder Plot. ![]()
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