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Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the members of Parliament would provide an opportunity for the English Catholics to take over the country.
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THEY may have resided in England for hundreds of years but the theft of the gold rosary of Mary, Queen of Scots from Arundel Castle at the weekend is a national loss that will be keenly felt by many people in Scotland and beyond. The rosary was rightly in the keeping of the Howard family for it was given to their ancestors by Mary herself in appreciation of their efforts and those of England’s leading Catholics to put their co-religionist on the throne of their country. Indeed Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk, had wanted to marry Mary as early as 1568 after she first arrived in England having abdicated the Scottish throne and lost the Battle of Langside. Howard and Mary were both involved in the Ridolfi Plot in the early 1570s which would see him marry Mary and dethrone Elizabeth I. ....