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The Catholic Refuge - A Kind of Treason
In the small hours of November 5th, 1605, a search party found a man named Guy Fawkes in a cellar beneath the House of Lords, standing among thirty-six barrels of gunpowder meant to destroy the King and the whole of Parliament. The Gunpowder Plot failed. But it confirmed a suspicion two generations in the making — that an English Catholic could not be trusted to keep faith with his King.
This is the story of how a faith became a crime. The scholar-priest Edmund Campion, racked and hanged for saying Mass. A captive queen who signed her cousin's death and brought an armada down on England. The…
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