The Gunpowder Plot deceit

Beardsley, Martyn R.2019

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Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the 11th hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament. How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catholics were able to plot for months with apparent impunity? How could they openly rent a house next door to the House of Lords and use it as their base - right under the nose of the leading spymaster of the age, Robert Cecil? How could they have hacked a tunnel towards their target and dispose of tonnes of spoil without alerting anyone - and why is there no record of anyone ever having seen such a tunnel? This book explores the idea that the government was not only aware of what the plotters were up to long before Fawkes' arrest, but that agent-provocateurs may have given them a helping hand - or have even instigated the plot themselves.