It has been said that Guy Fawkes “was the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions.” Of course that intention was to blow the British Parliament to perdition in the notorious early Seventeenth century Gunpowder Plot. The conspiracy had to do with the Catholic resistance to Protestant persecution, and in the popular English imagination, to an attempted restoration of the Catholic church, and dreams of an English Inquisition to follow. It was on this day in 1605 that he... Read more