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November 7, 2016

The Bonfire Plot – Part 4

“Hanged, Drawn and Quartered…” Only eight of the original Plot survived. On a cold Monday, January 27, 1606, all the prisoners were brought from the Tower of London through Traitors…..
7 minutes read

November 6, 2016

The Bonfire Plot – Smoking out the Jesuits

Part 3: The True Mission of the Plot? Father John Gerard had already escaped by rope from the Tower once and, due to his relationship to the Gunpowder plot, saw…..
11 minutes read

November 5, 2016

The Bonfire Plot: The Plot Uncovered

In the last part of our tale, we find Guy Fawkes, the brave Yorkshire man and experienced miner and sapper soldier, being questioned by the King, having been interrupted in…..
4 minutes read

November 9, 2014

The Bonfire Plot – Part 6

“The wondrous miracle of Garnet’s straw.” As Garnet’s body was being dismembered on the block, his head was flung into a basket which had been lined with straw to soak…..
13 minutes read

November 8, 2014

The Bonfire Plot – Part 5 – The Priests Meet the Law.

“…he had never in his life met the like man to Mr. Garnet either for modesty, wisdom, or learning,” wrote Sir Henry Bromley of the prisoner Garnet. But Father Garnet…..