The British nation a history / by George MWrong . lia-ment was to open on November 5, 1605, and as the timedrew near some of the plotters grew anxious to savefriends of their own faith in attendance upon the king,for Eoman Catholics were not yet excluded from Parlia-ment. Lord Monteagle was warned to stay away. TheGovernment was well-informed, but kept quiet until thelast moment. When the blow fell, Fawkes was found inthe cellar among the barrels of gunpowder. Catesby andhis companions took horse and rode into the country, butat Holbeach, about a hundred miles from London, theywere surrounded.
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . lia-ment was to open on November 5, 1605, and as the timedrew near some of the plotters grew anxious to savefriends of their own faith in attendance upon the king,for Eoman Catholics were not yet excluded from Parlia-ment. Lord Monteagle was warned to stay away. TheGovernment was well-informed, but kept quiet until thelast moment. When the blow fell, Fawkes was found inthe cellar among the barrels of gunpowder. Catesby andhis companions took horse and rode into the country, butat Holbeach, about a hundred miles from London, theywere surrounded. Catesby was killed, fighting to the last. Fawkes, when tor- tured, told all, andmost of the conspir-ators perished uponthe scaffold. TheGunpowder Plot af-fected the Englishnation the RomanCatholics as a partywere not resj)onsiblefor it, none the lessthe punishment fellupon them. Hence-forth in the popu-lar mind they Averecapable of any crime, and Parliament enacted againstthemeven severer laws; they were forbidden to appear at. The Vailt BiiNEAin the Hucse of Lords ASSOCIATED WITH THE GrNPOWDER PlOT. 346 THE BRITISH NATION court, to travel more tlian five miles from home, to engagein trade, or in the legal or medical professions; and theirhouses were always to be open to official inspection. Untilthe nineteenth century they suffered disabilities withoutany hope of redress. James was always dogged by financial distress. Eliza-beth had spent about £300,000 a year upon army, navy,and the whole work of government. The Jamess need national revenues were absurdly small; but of money. * James, coming from Scotland, a very poorcountry, thought himself rich in England. In one monthhe gave £34,000 to six favourites, four of them Scots; inthe second year of his reign he piled up debts amountingto nearly £800,000, or about two whole years reckless extravagance involved the use of every pos-sible means to get money. Since the fourteenth centuryEnglish kings
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