Gunpowder Plot

Yeah.

Okay, so then the other part of part two that you have, you touched on – you want to touch – you already touched on – we already touched on William Shakespeare and Gunpowder Plot.

I'm trying to remember if we touched on that, the last one, and then the –

Gunpowder Plot.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, is that something that – you know, Americans know about generally, or is it?

Okay.

All right.

... where A, because of modern technology with whether it's dynamite or Semtex or whatever, you can kill a lot more people easily.

Or the Gunpowder Plot with, with many, that's, yeah, well, no, that's ancient technology if you're Chinese.

But when you get to the 1900s, you're talking about the tele- you're talking about mass production of newspapers.

Mm.

He watches as merchants lock their doors early, as soldiers patrol in double ranks.

Two days have passed since the failed Gunpowder Plot, but he knows they'll strike again.

His spy network has reported whispers of another attack, this time within the walls of Hampton Court Palace.

There's even talk of a Catholic army gathering in the North.

And I'm Alice Levine.

And this is British Scandal, an Audible Original.

So Matt, when they told me we were doing this one, I thought, "This is a story I will not need to brush up on" We all learnt about the Gunpowder Plot in primary school, but if we cast our minds back to the end of the last episode, Guy was being tortured by the King's spymaster.

Yes.

Some of the most memorable events in our history books took place during the Stuart period.

The Great Fire of London, the Great Plague, the Civil War, and one of the most famous assassination attempts of all time, the Gunpowder Plot.

Guy Fawkes and his mob tried to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder, but he was foiled by a tip-off and executed.

So what's the connection with a milk float? Well, my first worst job is the saltpeter man.

They did their rounds every other day in the winter and every day in the summer when it was a hot, hard slog, not to mention sticky and smelly.

Urine can be processed to produce potassium nitrate, saltpeter.

And every drop was crucial because the gunpowder plot kicked off a whole century of violence.

It was the saltpeter man who fueled every musket and cannon.

It produced no statute and was consequently known in history as the Addled Parliament.

End of Section 4 Chapter 2 The Spanish Alliance Section 1 The Gunpowder Plot The relations between James and the Puritans were to some extent modified after the appointment of Abbot to the Archbishopric.

Some connivance was extended to those of the non-conformists who did not make themselves too obtrusive.

The relations between James and the Catholics, on the other hand, had some time before Abbot's appointment become harsher than they were at the beginning of the reign.

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Chapter 2, Section 2, James I and Spain.

The detection of the gunpowder plot rekindled the old feelings of antipathy against Spain as well as against the Catholics at home.

James, if carried away for a moment, did not fully share in these feelings.

Their attitude was strengthened by the wild attempt of some fanatical papists to sweep away king and commons alike by the horrible gunpowder treason.

In 1605 these eager spirits, their chiefs were Catesby, Winter, Fox, and Digsby, formed the gunpowder plot.

The houses of parliament were to be blown up during a sitting at which the king and the Prince of Wales were present by means of gunpowder placed in the cellars beneath.

It was discovered through a letter in which one of the conspirators endeavored to hint to his friend the danger of attending parliament on November 5th.

And of course then he'll get kicked out of the country, but that's another story.

Um, he tries to, uh, he, he tries to patch things up with James the first and he, he, you know, uh, in particular, you know, asked him not to blame Catholics in general for the gunpowder plot, uh, business, which, you know, to what degree that was a setup is another question.

Um, another, another interesting detail about Paul V. Um, so there is a, uh, a famous work on the history of the mass, um, called the mass of the Roman right by this, uh, Austrian priest named Jungman, uh, So Paul V, apparently, this is just something I noticed in passing.

So in 1615, Paul V, you know, has received some appeals from missionaries in China, and they're actually asking permission to celebrate the mass in Chinese.