A Day to Remember
Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot
– John Milton
When King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England, the petitions rolled in. Catholics and Puritans sought royal protection for their practices, and overt favors for their faiths.
James despised both groups. He hated the Calvinists who’d controlled his native Scotland since Knox. And, notwithstanding the mother he never knew, the King expressed “utter detestation” of Catholicism.
On the English throne, he relished his role as head…
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