GUNPOWDER PLOT

• Gunpowder plot 1605

  • WHY? result of catholic disappointment of james 1, many catholics were hopefyl james would let them worship freely but many powerful members of james council were anti-catholic so laws against caths were more strict
  • PLAN? Robert Catesby wanted to blow houses of parliment and lead catholic rebellion. Guy fawkes filed a vault beneath parliment with 36 barrels of gunpwoder
  • DISCOVERY? an anonymous letter warned Lord Monteagle to not attent the opening of parliment, who took straight to Cecil. Vaults were then searched and Fawkes arrested.
• CONSEQUENCES OF GUNPOWDER PLOT:

  • PLOTTERS? Fawkes tortured until he revealed the names.Rest of plotters escaped but the gov soldiers tracked them down and were killed. Rest guilty of treason and to be hung
  • CONSEQUENCES: All catholics= heretics. New laws & harsh punishments to deal w them> take part in protestant services, banned from working in legal profession, couldn't vote

  CHURCH - religious tensions still existed 70 years after reformation

  GOVERNMENT: created new strict laws to force conformity from the catholics, harsher punishments

  INDIVIDUALS: James 1, Catesby, Fawkes