Essay: Guy Fawkes Fawkes Guy, was one of the greatest conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, pronounced fawks Guy, English conspirator, born in York. A protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background and sympathies(Miller 578).
It is very limiting because although you can get some you cannot get much information from source two: two signatures. Most of the sources give information that could suggest that Guy Fawkes and the Catholics were framed. Source one has lots of information suggesting that the Gunpowder plot was planned to frame the Catholics.
The Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a result of the inconsistent policies of King James I toward English Catholics. An attempt to increase toleration for, if not completely convert England back to the Catholic faith, the Gunpowder Plot was a well planned, well funded, but miserable catastrophe for the Catholic church.
The King orders Guy Fawkes to be tortured until he confesses. The conspirators stand trial for treason and are found guilty and executed. From retribution to toleration. Find out how the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot affected the treatment of Catholics in England and in succeeding centuries, and about the growth of toleration and the Catholic.