Season 9
Episode 2029
Published 1 year, 4 months ago
Description
SEGMENT 1
Time 6:03am cst
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Remember Remember the 5th of November
Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Catesby had conceived of the plot as early as May 1603, when he told Percy, in reply to the latter’s declaration of his intention to kill the king, that he was “thinking of a most sure way.” Subsequently, on or about November 1, 1603, Catesby sent a message to his cousin Robert Winter at Huddington, near Worcester, to come to London, but Winter refused. On the arrival of a second urgent summons shortly afterward, he obeyed, and at a house in Lambeth, probably in January 1604, he and John Wright were initiated by Catesby into the plot to blow up Parliament. Before putting this plan into motion, however, it was decided to try a “quiet way” to obtain the repeal of the Penal Laws, a body of laws that essentially criminalized Roman Catholicism. Winter was sent to Flanders to enlist the aid of Juan de Velasco, duke of Frias and constable of Castile, who was conducting the negotiations for a peace between England and Spain. Winter, having secured nothing but vain promises from the constable, returned to England about the end of April, bringing with him Fawkes, a man devoted to the Roman Catholic cause and recommended for undertaking perilous adventures.
On November 4 the king, having been shown the letter, ordered Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk, in his capacity as lord chamberlain, to examine the buildings. He was accompanied by Monteagle. When they arrived at the cellar, the door was opened by Fawkes. Seeing the enormous piles of firewood, Suffolk asked the name of their owner, to which Fawkes replied that they belonged to Percy. His name immediately aroused suspicion, and it was ordered that a further search should be made by Thomas Knyvett, a Westminster magistrate. Knyvett, accompanied by his men on the night of November 4–5, discovered the gunpowder and arrested Fawkes on the threshold. Fawkes, under