Yearly reminder that in 1605, Catholics legally couldn’t purchase gunpowder.
Furthermore, gunpowder could only be bought from the Tower of London, and every time gunpowder was bought from there it would be kept in a record. Now the records for all the surrounding years can be traced, yet the records for 1605 are mysteriously absent.
I’m not saying the Gunpowder Plot was a Protestant conspiracy, but I’m not saying the Gunpowder Plot wasn’t a Protestant conspiracy.
A Protestant plot to scare king James out of his increasing tendency towards religious tolerance? HENSE THE CATHOLIC GUY FAWLKS, TRICKED INTO BELIEVING HIMSELF THE MASTERMIND?
THE GIVEAWAY! THE ARREST! THE PUNISHMENT!
If so, we’ve motive and method-but what of suspect? Who was the Protestant behind the Catholic behind the plot?