Catesby and the core group of conspirators first met and swore an oath of secrecy on 20 May At first they had planned to tunnel beneath the Houses of Parliament, but in they were able to rent a cellar located directly beneath the House of Lords. Dozens of barrels of gunpowder were moved in, and explosives expert Guy Fawkes prepared to ignite the cache during the Opening of Parliament. As well as Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, 11 other men eventually joined the conspiracy. This letter, delivered by a stranger in the road, and warned Monteagle not to attend the opening of Parliament.
The plotters had been informed of the letter by a servant of Monteagle, but despite the risk that their plan had been discover decided to continue with the plan. Cecil meanwhile had chosen to wait in to see how events unfolded, in particular since King James I was busy hunting in Cambridgeshire. On 4 November men loyal to the king searched the vaults of Parliament and found a large pile of firewood in a cellar. Fawkes himself was also discovered; claiming he was called John Johnson, Fawkes said that the firewood belonged to his master Thomas Percy.
This aroused further suspicion however, as Percy was already known to the authorities as a Catholic agitator. The failed plot to assassinate James I and the ruling Protestant elite would, however unfairly, taint all English Catholics with treason for centuries to come. Who were the conspirators and what did they hope to achieve?
Spying and shoot-outs, treachery and torture, not to mention gruesome deaths. The Gunpowder Plot has it all. Why were Catholics so bitter, and what did they hope to achieve? The year marked the end of an era. After 45 years on the English throne, Elizabeth I was dying. All signs suggested her successor would be James VI of Scotland, the son of Mary Queen of Scots - the queen who had been executed in on Elizabeth's orders.
English Catholics were very excited. They had suffered severe persecution since , when the Pope had excommunicated Elizabeth, releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her. The Spanish Armada of had made matters worse.
To the Tudor State, all Catholics were potential traitors. They were forbidden to hear Mass, forced instead to attend Anglican services, with steep fines for those recusants who persistently refused. Yet rumours suggested James was more warmly disposed to Catholics than the dying Queen Elizabeth.
Percy's reports back optimistically suggested that Catholics might enjoy protection in James' England. The early signs were encouraging. This relaxation led to considerable growth in the number of visible Catholics.
Trying to juggle different religious demands, James was displeased at their increasing strength. The discovery in July of two small Catholic plots did not help. Although most Catholics were horrified, all were tainted by the threat of treason. The situation deteriorated further at the Hampton Court Conference of January Trying to accommodate as many views as possible, James I expressed hostility against the Catholics in order to satisfy the Puritans, whose demands he could not wholly satisfy.
In February he publicly announced his 'utter detestation' of Catholicism; within days all priests and Jesuits had been expelled and recusancy fines reintroduced. Although bitterly disappointed, most English Catholics prepared to swallow the imposition of the fines, and live their double lives as best they could.
But this passive approach did not suit all. Robert Catesby was a devout Catholic and familiar with the price of faith. His father had been imprisoned for harbouring a priest, and he himself had had to leave university without a degree, to avoid taking the Protestant Oath of Supremacy.
Yet he possessed immense personal magnetism, crucial in recruiting and leading his small band of conspirators. The fifth person was Guy Fawkes. Originally from York, he had been recruited in Flanders, where he had been serving in the Spanish Army.
They discussed their plan to blow up Parliament House, and shortly afterwards leased a small house in the heart of Westminster, installing Fawkes as caretaker, under the alias of John Johnson. With Parliament successively postponed to 5 November , over the following year the number of plotters gradually increased to ten. Robert Keyes, Robert Wintour, John Grant and Kit Wright were all relatives, by blood or marriage, to one or more of the original five conspirators.
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