Case File No. 036 · PDF ebook · 26 pages
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
It Was Never His Plan
The warning letter, the cellar, the King's torture order, two signatures a week apart, and the plotters' own gunpowder fire.
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Why it's worth it
Real documents, engravings and prints, from the 1605 warning letter to the 1606 execution print.
Fawkes's York, the cellar at Westminster, and the plotters' flight to Holbeche, 5-8 November 1605.
The schoolmates who became priests, the cook, the priest hole, the earl in the Tower and more.
The Monteagle letter and Thomas Wintour's confession, with plain-English notes.
Four 17th-century prints: The Powder Treason, England's Miraculous Preservation, The Double Deliverance and Popish Plots and Treasons.
Two PDFs, plus every source and image credit listed.
Inside this file
- The case in one page, and a timeline from York 1570 to Washington's 1775 ban on 'Pope Day'
- Exhibits: van de Passe's 1605 engraving of the plotters, Capon's drawing of the real cellar, the Monteagle letter, the lantern, an examination of 'John Johnson', the two signatures, Percy's wanted print and Visscher's 1606 execution print
- Original words: the Monteagle letter in full, and Thomas Wintour's confession of the last stand at Holbeche
- A map drawn for this file: from York to the cellar at Westminster, and the flight to Holbeche House
- Persons of interest: Fawkes, Catesby, Percy, Thomas Wintour, Tresham, Monteagle, Cecil and James I
- Myth vs. record: who led it, the tunnel, the 'decayed' powder, the lit match, Cecil's 'invention', 'Remember, remember'
- Printable replicas: four 17th-century prints of the plot
- Visit it today, and case closed? Our verdict, with every source listed
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Is this the same as the video? No. The video tells the story; the file holds the evidence, the replicas and the stories we had no time for.
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