Case Study

• Who was King during the Gunpowder Plot

  James 1
• What religion was James 1?

  Protestant
• What religion were the plotters?

  Catholic
• What were the names of the Plotters?

  Guy Fawkes and Henry Garnet
• How many barrels of gunpowder was there?

  36
• How did they get caught?

  Member of Parliament got a letter warning them

  Sent to Cecil (Spy Master)

  Guy Fawkes discovered and arrested
• What happened to the plotters?

  Plotters tortured and confessed

  After 12 days he Guy Fawkes confessed
• What was their punishment?

  Hung Drawn and Quartered
• Consequences of the Plot?

  Tighter restriction for Catholics

  Forced Catholics to take an Oath of Alligiance to English Crown

  Catholics couldn't votes until 1800s
• When was the Thanksgiving Act and what was it?

  Banned Catholics from working in legal professions and in armed forces

  1605
• What was the Popish Recusants Act?

  Forced to take an oath of allegiance to the English Crown

  Punishment Fines and services

  In 1606
• What were Witches blamed for in the 16th Century?

  Illness

  Bad weather

  Bad Crop yields

  Death of Livestock
• When did James 1 make Witchcraft punishable by death?

  1604
• Why were Vagabonds accused of Witchcraft?

  They were poor and unemployed typical stereotypes for witches
• What was Daemonologie?

  Book written by James I

  Written about the supernatural and hatred of witches
• What were the English Civil Wars?

  1642

  Caused fear which led to an increase in superstitious ideas like witchcraft
• Who were mainly Accused of being witches?

  Unmarried Women

  Went against stereotype and not focusing on Domestic Duties
• Who was Matthew Hopkins?

  Witchfinder General

  Employed by JP to find witches
• Ways of interegation Matthew Hopkins used

  Lack of Sleep

  Lack of water

  Lack of Food
• What did he check for?

  Moles and Birthmarks example of a teat used by familiars to suckle blood
• How many people were executed for Witchcraft between 1542 and 1736?

  1,000
• How many witchcraft cases did Hopkins convict?

  117 people

  Caused Mass fear
• Why was there a decline in Witchcraft accusations?

  More scientific evidence and reasoning behind ideas
• When was the gunpowder plot?

  1605