THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
As James I was a Protestant many Catholics were disappointed that they were forced to go
to Angelican churches. Faced with this situation, the Catholics decided to rebel against the
king by making a plan for his execution and for his daughter Elizabeth to come to power to
rule the country in a Catholic way. The plan they devised was to blow up the House of
Lords on the day of the meeting. The ringleader of this whole plan was Robert Catesby.
Since everything was going according to plan, they "rented" a spot that led directly below
the House of Lords. But when they least expected it, everything was ruined when Lord
Monteagle sent a letter to the king telling him everything that the Catholics were planning
to do against him and immediately sent the letter to the king to avoid the tragedy. As soon
as the king found out, they prepared everything so that the plan would not happen. When
all the materials were ready, Guy Fawkes was waiting but they arrested him because they
already knew they were going to perform that night. Guy Fakes was tortured until the king
got all the information he wanted and the information needed to catch the rest of the
Catholics who also tried to kill him. When the king found out who they were he went
directly to hear them and killed them all. Since then, whenever it's November 5th, they
celebrate that nothing happened, and they celebrate with fireworks... Even in some parts
of the country, they create a statue of Guy Fawkes and then burn it. Esot is celebrated to
remember history.