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Talk:Essay:Greatest Mysteries of World History (view source)
Revision as of 00:09, May 1, 2009
, 00:09, May 1, 2009→The Gunpowder Plot: Fawkes
::::: Maybe you think John DeLorean should have been found guilty in his trial, but the jurors felt otherwise. He was entrapped to fabricate a crime that never would have happened otherwise.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 08:48, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
::::: Maybe you think John DeLorean should have been found guilty in his trial, but the jurors felt otherwise. He was entrapped to fabricate a crime that never would have happened otherwise.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 08:48, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
=== Guy Fawkes ===
The question is a little odd: "Did Guy Fawkes really create the Gunpowder Plot?" The answer is well-known: the plot was hatched by a group of Catholic nobles and gentlemen from the Midlands, who recruited Fawkes to set off the explosives. Fawkes was a soldier and an expert on explosives an also a highly committed Catholic, so he was an ideal man for the job.
Andy, you seem to have doubts about the reality of the Gunpowder Plot. If you visit England, I strongly recommend a visit to Coughton Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire, the ancestral home of the Throckmorton family. The Throckmortons were one of several Catholic noble families in the Midlands who refused to convert to the Protestant religion and were connected by marriage or business to all the Gunpowder Plotters except Fawkes. There's an excellent little exhibition there about the Gunpowder Plot and the role in it of the closely-connected Catholic noble familes of Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. There are other fascinating features, such as several priest holes, a Catholic altar concealed in an item of furniture and a tapestry incorporating a secret code to show the location of Catholic priests in the Midlands. [[User:JosephMac|JosephMac]] 20:09, 30 April 2009 (EDT)