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	Gunpowder Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one attack by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening.
		The Gunpowder Plot was one of a series of unsuccessful assassination attempts against James I, and followed the Main Plot and Bye Plot of 1603.
		The Gunpowder Plot is also the topic of a several songs and ballads—of note, the song "Remember", from John Lennon's album Plastic Ono Band, ends with the phrase "the fifth of November" and an explosion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunpowder_Plot (3302 words)

	Gunpowder Plot - LoveToKnow 1911
		It was aimed at the repeal of the whole Elizabethan legislation against the Roman Catholics and perhaps derived some impulse at first from the leniency lately shown by the administration, afterwards gaining support from the opposite cause, the return of the government to the policy of repression.
		The opinion that the whole plot was the work of Salisbury, that he acted as an agent provocateur and lured on his victims to destruction, repeated by some contemporary and later writers and recently formulated and urged with great ability, has no solid foundation.
		The success with which the conspirators concealed their plot from Salisbury's spies is indeed astonishing, but is probably explained by its very audacity and by the absence of incriminating correspondence, the medium through which the minister chiefly obtained his knowledge of the plans of his enemies.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gunpowder_Plot (2637 words)

	gunpowder - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		GUNPOWDER [gunpowder] explosive mixture; its most common formula, called "fl powder," is a combination of saltpeter, sulfur, and carbon in the form of charcoal.
		Gunpowder was the only explosive in wide use until the middle of the 19th cent., when it was superseded by nitroglycerine-based explosives.
		Gunpowder, treason and Catholic plot ; According to television historian Dr David Starkey, a 'velvet persecution' paved the way for the Gunpowder Plot.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gunpowde.asp (486 words)

	Gunpowder Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 involved a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one fell swoop by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the state opening.
		The plot was intended to spark a rebellion during which, they hoped, James's daughter Elizabeth would be installed as a Catholic head of state.
		The plot miscarried on November 5 hours before the plot was to have been enacted.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Gunpowder_Plot.html (910 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gunpowder Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Main Plot was a conspiracy by English Catholics, allegedly led by lay Catholic Lord Cobham, to remove King James I of England from the English throne, replacing him by aid of Spain with his cousin Arabella (or Arbella) Stuart.
		The Bye Plot was a conspiracy by English Catholics to kidnap King James I of England and force him to repeal anti-Catholic legislation.
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one attack by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gunpowder-Plot (1264 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		Their deaths did them credit; in particular the last letters and verses of Sir Everard Digby, which were not intended for the public eye, and were not discovered or published till long after, produce the impression of a man who deserved a happier fate.
		Garnet afterwards asked pardon for this, admitting that between hope and fear, embarrassment and uncertainty, he had not taken absolutely all the means to stop the conspirators, which he might perhaps have taken on the strength of his general suspicions, even though he could do nothing in virtue of his sacramental knowledge.
		In the case of the Babington Plot, indeed, we have direct proof that this was done in the letters of the provocateurs themselves.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/gunpowder_plot.html (4070 words)

	::The Gunpowder Plot of 1605::
		In November 1605, the infamous Gunpowder Plot took place in which some Catholics, most famously Guy Fawkes, plotted to blow up James I, the first of the Stuart kings of England.
		This lead to a plot to kill not only the king of England, James, but also everyone sitting in the Houses of Parliament at the same time as James was there when he opened Parliament on November 5th, 1605.
		Gunpowder may have been a government monopoly but just as today, there was a fl market for it.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /gunpowder_plot_of_1605.htm (1627 words)

	Gunpowder Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 involved a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholic extremists to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one fell swoop by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening.
		The plot was intended to initiate a rebellion during which, they hoped, James's daughter (Elizabeth of Bohemia) could be installed as a Catholic head of state.
		Many modern historians think that Cecil's agents had infiltrated the plot early on in its gestation but allowed it to continue for dramatic effect; certainly the propaganda value of a "Popish plot" was not underplayed during the next few hundred years.
	www.stcharles.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Gunpowder_Plot (2201 words)

	Guy Fawkes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plot was an attempt to assassinate King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England.
		The plot itself may have been occasioned by the realization by English Protestant authorities and Roman Catholic recusants that Spain was in far too much debt and was fighting too many wars to assist English Roman Catholics.
		The plot was commemorated by the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London on November the 5th for years after by a sermon at St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Fawkes (2743 words)

	Gunpowder Plot - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Gunpowder Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
		Robert Catesby was the leader of the plot, while Guy Fawkes was the explosives expert.
		The searching of the vaults of Parliament before the opening of each new session, however, was not instituted until the Popish Plot of 1678.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Gunpowder%20Plot (316 words)

	Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night
		But as the group worked on the plot, it became clear that innocent people would be hurt or killed in the attack, including some people who even fought for more rights for Catholics.
		Guy Fawkes, who was in the cellar of the parliament with the 36 barrels of gunpowder when the authorities stormed it in the early hours of November 5th, was caught, tortured and executed.
		On the very night that the Gunpowder Plot was foiled, on November 5th, 1605, bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the King.
	www.bonefire.org /guy/gunpowder.php (507 words)

	Gunpowder Plot. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The conspirators, who began plotting early in 1604, expanded their number to a point where secrecy was impossible.
		The 1st earl of Salisbury and others, to whom the plot was made known, took steps leading to the discovery of the materials and the arrest of Fawkes as he entered the cellar.
		While the plot was the work of a small number of men, it provoked hostility against all English Catholics and led to an increase in the harshness of laws against them.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gu/Gunpowde.html (377 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A Journal for MultiMedia History video review.
		Catholic plots were always directed against the king, on the somewhat weak grounds that if the head of the government were destroyed, the rest of the government could be rebuilt in any way desired.
		The Gunpowder Plot was the most well-conceived of these plots, because it would have destroyed the whole central government as well as the monarch, leaving the country in a shambles, and perhaps forces sympathetic to Catholicism would have taken control.
		They were not surprised when the Gunpowder Plot failed, and many of them were probably glad that it had not disrupted their lives and turned their countrymen even more vigorously against them.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol1no1/gunpowderplot.html (1501 words)

	Gunpowder Plot Society - The Story of the Plot
		The seeds of discontent at the treatment of Catholics in England, which ultimately led to the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, were first sown in the late 1520s during the reign of Henry VIII.
		Such activities as this had been only too evident in the Babington Plot of 1586 which uncovered Mary's coveting of the English crown and which was subsequently a main reason for her eventual execution.
		The mysterious circumstances surrounding this death still generate debate over Tresham's true role in the Gunpowder Plot, and whether he was in fact poisoned or whether he was allowed to escape.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /history/plot.htm (2114 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		Guy Fawkes, as he is really called, is one of thirteen who have conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the whole country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past.
		The circumstances that surround what drove these thirteen disaffected Catholics, led by the charismatic Robert Catesby, to such a desperate act are the focus of the Gunpowder Plot Society, for the circumstances are far from straighforward.
		Threads of research being undertaken by the GPS and its associates, and a summary of the projects we are involved in.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org (280 words)

	Cronaca: Gunpowder Plot no flash in the pan
		A new analysis by physicists shows that if the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to destroy the English parliament and kill the King had succeeded, it would have taken a large part of central London with it.
		In the Gunpowder Plot, an estimated 2500 kilograms of gunpowder had been amassed.
		Gunpowder is generally less powerful than TNT, but Fawkes was an expert, having used explosives while serving in the Spanish army during their occupation of the Netherlands.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/001662.html (460 words)

	Gunpowder Plot would have devastated London - 05 November 2003 - New Scientist
		The Gunpowder Plot was planned for 5 November, and its failure is still marked in Britain today with fireworks and bonfires.
		They placed 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under Westminster Hall, where parliament then sat, but were caught before the fuses could be lit.
		To estimate the potential impact of the explosion, Geraint Thomas and his colleagues used techniques developed to assess the danger posed to surrounding areas by an accidental release of explosive materials from a chemical plant.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4338 (568 words)

	Gunpowder Plot - Uncyclopedia
		The Gunpowder Plot, often known as 5/11, was an attempt by the Rebel Catholic faction CDHL (Catholics for Dull History Lessons) to blow up the parliamentary buildings of Britain, and thus killing King James I.
		The plot to blow up parliament was originally an idea of the Philosopher and Anarchist Holden Caulfield, whose involvement in this incident, would later encourage a series of unauthorized biographies (most famously Catcher in the Rye).
		The gunpowder would then be blown up on the 5th November 1605, with Guy Fawkes lighting the fuse.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gunpowder_Plot (433 words)

	GUNPOWDER PLOT - Online Information article about GUNPOWDER PLOT
		Later several other persons were included in the plot, preventing its execution, and at the same time of giving the viz.
		On the soon, so that the plot might be ripe and be fully disclosed.
		Confession and the Gunpowder Plot, by John Gerard, S.J. (with facsimiles of his writing) (1898); Eng.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/GUNPOWDER_PLOT.html (4314 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was an attempt to kill James I, King of England.
		The ultimate result of these plots was that James banished all Catholic priests from the kingdom.
		The Gunpowder Plot is rembered each year on Guy Fawkes Night, November 5, when human effigies called "guys" are joyfully burned on bonfires across England.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/stuart/gunpowder.htm (1074 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		Before he had come to the throne, one of the people who later joined the Gunpowder Plot, Percy, had gone to visit him in Scotland, and James had led him to believe that he would improve the lot of Catholics in England.
		It was in this atmosphere of fear and hostility that the Gunpowder Plot was hatched.
		A few years after the Gunpowder Plot, Parliament passed an Act, called the Act of Succession, which forebade the monarch (king or queen) from either becoming or marrying a Catholic.
	britcult0.tripod.com /history/gp_plot.htm (888 words)

	The Stuarts - The Gunpowder Plot
		Gunpowder was not normally kept in the cellars under the Houses of Parliament.
		Many historians today agree with the Catholics of the time that the Gunpowder Plot conspirators were framed by James I's chief minister, Robert Cecil.
		All available supplies of gunpowder were kept in the Tower of London.
	www.historyonthenet.com /Stuarts/gunpowder_plot.htm (518 words)

	Gunpowder Plot
		At this point the plot was exposed and early in November 5th, Guy Fawkes was arrested as he emerged from the cellar.
		Although we celebrate the failure of the plot in Great Britain with the Bonfire Night celebrations which culminate in the burning of an effigy (Guy Fawkes) he was actually hanged on Jan 31, 1606.
		Not because of the Gunpowder Plot (that was not enough to concern them) but because of the Popish Plot of 1678.
	www.franklyncards.com /date/0511-1.htm (704 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot
		Even before the Gunpowder Plot, he had been assossiated with another conspirator, Thomas Winter, in schemes to encourage a Spanish invasion of England.
		Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland was found guilty of complicity in the Plot, fined a massive £30,000 and imprisoned until 1621.
		On a broader, level the Gunpowder Plot proved to be the last gasp of active resistance; thereafter, English Catholics adopted a quietist stance.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/123/Gunpowder.htm (1229 words)

	Wikinfo \| Gunpowder Plot
		The Gunpowder Plot was a desperate attempt by upper class provincial Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one fell swoop and take power themselves.
		The event is celebrated on November 5th each year in the UK as Bonfire night (also known as Guy Fawkes night, after the alleged leader of the conspiracy).
		Yet many people today think that Cecil's agents had infiltrated the plot early on in its gestation but allowed it to continue for dramatic effect; certainly the propaganda value of a 'Popish plot' was not underplayed during the next few hundred years.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gunpowder_Plot (405 words)

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