Category: History - British
In 'What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story tested by Original Evidence,'[1] Father Gerard has set forth all the difficulties he found while sifting the accessible evidence, and has deduced from his examination a result which, though somewhat vague in itself, leaves...
In 'What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story tested by Original Evidence,'[1] Father Gerard has set forth all the difficulties he found while sifting the accessible ev...
2. CHAPTER IIFirst of all, let us restrict ourselves to the story told by Guy Fawkes himself in the five[15] examinations to which he was subjected previously to his being put to the torture...
3. CHAPTER III.Having thus, I hope, established that the story of the mine and cellar is borne out by Fawkes's own account, I proceed to examine into the objections raised by Father Gerard to...
4. CHAPTER IV.From a study of the documentary evidence, I pass to an examination of those structural conditions which Father Gerard pronounces to be fatal to the 'traditional' story. The firs...
5. CHAPTER VIn one way the evidence on the discovery of the plot differs from that on the plot itself. The latter is straightforward and simple, its discrepancies, where there are any, bein...
6. CHAPTER VIHaving thus disposed of Father Gerard's assaults on the general truth of the accepted narrative of the Plot, we can raise ourselves into a larger air, and trace the causes leadi...
7. CHAPTER VIIIt was unavoidable that the persecution to which Catholics were subjected should bear most hardly on the priests, who were held guilty of disseminating a disloyal religion. It i...
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