http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/guy-fawkes-day-2/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://neveryetmelted.com/2008/11/05/guy-fawkes-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-130684 Sallie Parker Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:21:45 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/index.php/guy-fawkes-day-2/#comment-130684 The whole Guy Fawkes conspiracy was a put-up job. The "plot" was known to agents of the Crown and abetted and maintained by them long after most of Fawkes's associates had dropped out. The anti-Catholic faction in the Government feared that the new King James, with a Catholic wife and a beheaded Catholic mother, might be rather lenient on those who remained loyal the faith of there (and his) fathers. So they concocted this most convenient tale of the "Gunpowder Plot." The whole Guy Fawkes conspiracy was a put-up job. The “plot” was known to agents of the Crown and abetted and maintained by them long after most of Fawkes’s associates had dropped out. The anti-Catholic faction in the Government feared that the new King James, with a Catholic wife and a beheaded Catholic mother, might be rather lenient on those who remained loyal the faith of there (and his) fathers. So they concocted this most convenient tale of the “Gunpowder Plot.”

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