6/29/2023 0 Comments Guy Fawkes by Hugh Ross Williamson![]() ![]() ![]() Thus it is extremely difficult for historians trying to disentangle the truth about things after the passage of centuries to reach a steady judgement and it is usually possible to argue that the plots either never existed at all or were exaggerated and perverted by the authorities to serve their own propaganda purposes. In most cases the evidence was provided by informers, who asserted that they themselves were involved in the conspiracy under examination, or from confessions obtained through the torture of prisoners the procedure at the trials gave little opportunity for the accused to defend themselves adequately and the judges invariably behaved almost as if they were assistant prosecutors. THE history of England and of Scotland in the seventeenth century is full of plots and counterplots, ranging from the Gunpowder Treason or Plot of 1605 to the Fenwick Plot of 1696. The Gunpowder Plot, By Hugh Ross Williamson. ![]()
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