. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. SEIZURE OF OCT FAWKE3. THE GUNPOWDER PLOT. AMES I., had not been morethan a year on the throne whena horrible plot was formed bysome desperate and fanaticRoman catholics, to blow upthe parliament house wdth gun-powder, when the king, theroyal family, and all the peersof England should be assem-bled. Of this atrocious plot, named the GunpowderPlot, the following are some of the leading circum-stances. The idea was first conceived by
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. SEIZURE OF OCT FAWKE3. THE GUNPOWDER PLOT. AMES I., had not been morethan a year on the throne whena horrible plot was formed bysome desperate and fanaticRoman catholics, to blow upthe parliament house wdth gun-powder, when the king, theroyal family, and all the peersof England should be assem-bled. Of this atrocious plot, named the GunpowderPlot, the following are some of the leading circum-stances. The idea was first conceived by Robert Catesby, a(330). THE GUNPOWDER PLOT. 331 gentleman of good birth and property, which last,however, he had squandered in riot and communicated it to two of his friends, John Wrightand Thomas Winter, which last went over to theNetherlands, and there engaged in the plot one GuyFawkes, a gentleman of good family in Yorkshire,who having run through his small patrimony, hadentered the Spanish service. When Winter andFawkes came to London the plan was communicatedto Thomas Percy, a kinsman of the earl of Northum-berland, to whom he acted as steward, and a houseadjoining the parliament house was taken in his name,and Fawkes, as his servant, was put in charge of house was taken at Lambeth, in which thepowder, timber and other things requisite for theirpurpose, might be kept. These preparations were made in the spring of theyear, and as parliament was not to meet till theFebruary of the following year, the conspirators didnot commence operations till the beginning of Decem-ber. Catesby
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