Read The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 Online
Authors: Antonia Fraser
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Abbot, George, Dean of Winchester,
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Abercromby, Father Robert, S.J.,
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Abergavenny, Catherine, Lady (
née
Vaux),
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Abergavenny, George Nevill, 9th Baron,
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Act Against Popish Recusants (1593),
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Act of Supremacy
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Supremacy, Act of
Act of Uniformity
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Uniformity, Act of
Albert, Archduke of Austria,
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Allegiance, Oath of,
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Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester,
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Angus, Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of,
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Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII,
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Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I: qualities,
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; conversion to Catholicism,
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; arrival in England,
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; Household,
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; children and pregnancies,
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; Catholic sympathies,
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; coronation,
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; receives presents from Spain,
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; public appearances,
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; in Ben Jonson masque,
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; visits Oxford,
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; congratulated after Plot,
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; watches trial of Plotters,
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; as potential victim of Plot,
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; absent from Garnet’s trial,
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Anne, Queen of Great Britain,
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Appellants: dispute with Jesuits,
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; and conspiracies,
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; condemn equivocation,
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; advise on Oath of Allegiance,
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Aquaviva, Claudio, S.J.,
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Aquinas, St Thomas,
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Arden family,
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Arnold, Benedict,
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Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of,
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Arundeil, Mary, Lady,
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Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire,
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Ashfield, Robert,
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Ashley, Ralph: attends Tesimond on Holywell pilgrimage,
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; retreats to Hindlip,
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; tortured,
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; executed,
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Aubrey, John,
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Auden, W.H.,
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Augustine, St,
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Bacon, Sir Francis: and James’s wish for Anglo-Scottish union,
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; at execution of Plotters,
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Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire,
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Baghdad: bombed in Gulf War,
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Bainbridge, Denis (Guy Fawkes’s step-father),
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Bainbridge, Edith (
née
Jackson;
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Fawkes; Guy’s mother),
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Baldwin, Father William, S.J.,
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Banbury, Charles Knollys, 3rd Earl of,
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Banbury, Elizabeth, Countess of
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Howard, Lady Elizabeth
Banbury, Nicholas Knollys, 2nd Earl of,
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Banbury, William Knollys, 1st Earl of,
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Bancroft, Richard, Bishop of London (
later
Archbishop of Canterbury),
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Barlow, William, Bishop of Rochester (
later
of Lincoln),
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Barry, Sir Charles,
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Bate, David,
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Bates, Martha,
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Bates, Thomas: implicates Gerard,
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; confession,
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; implicates Tesimond,
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; joins Gunpowder Plot,
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; and discovery of Plot,
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; not initially suspected,
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; on run after failure of Plot,
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; captured,
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; trial,
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; executed,
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Bath,
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Baynham, Sir Edmund,
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Beauchamp, Edward Seymour, Baron,
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Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond,
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Beaumont, Christophe de Harlay, Comte de,
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Bedford, Lucy, Countess of,
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Bellamy, Old (wine merchant),
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Bennett, Father John,
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Bernard of Clairvaux, St,
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Berwick-upon-Tweed,
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Bess of Hardwicke
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Shrewsbury, Countess of
Blackwell, Father George,
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‘Bloody Question’,
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Blount, Father Richard,
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Boleyn, Mary,
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Bonfire Night (5 November),
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Book of Succession, The see
Persons, Father Robert
Bothwell, Francis Stewart Hepburn, 5th Earl of,
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Braddocks, near Saffron Walden, Essex,
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Brahe, Tycho,
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Briant, Father Alexander,
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Bright, Mrs (of Westminster),
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Bromley, Sir Henry,
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Bromley, Sir Thomas,
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Brooke, George,
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Brooksby, Dorothy,
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Brooksby, Eleanor (
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Brudenell, Mary (
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Tresham),
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Brudenell, Thomas,
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Brute (mythical figure),
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Burbage, Richard,
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Burghley House, Northamptonshire,
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Burghley, Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron (
later
1st Earl of Exeter): as Lord President of the North,
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; welcomes James on accession,
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; on female recusants,
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; and Anne’s attitude to Catholics,
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Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron,
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Burrell, John,
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Burrows, Frances,
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Bushell, Sir Edward,
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Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of,
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Bye Plot (1603),
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Byrd, Juliana,
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Byrd, William,
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Calvin, Jean,
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Campion, Father Edmund, S.J.,
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Canterbury, Archbishops of
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Cranmer, Thomas; Whitgift, John
Capon, William,
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Caraman, Father Philip, S.J.,
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Carey (Garnet’s jailer),
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Carlisle, 1st Earl of
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Hay, James, 1st Baron
Carmarthen, Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of,
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Casket Letters,
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Castile, Constable of
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Velasco, Juan Fernandez de
Castro, Fidel,
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Catesby family,
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Catesby, Anne, Lady (
née
Throckmorton),
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Catesby, Catherine (
née
Leigh; Robert’s wife),
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Catesby, Robert (Robin): in Essex conspiracy,
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; visits White Webbs,
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; background,
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; qualities,
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; initiates Gunpowder Plot,
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; relations with Francis Tresham,
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; marriage and children,
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; religious dedication,
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; and practice of assassination,
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; and supposed mining of Parliament,
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; meets at Mermaid Tavern,
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; plans for Princess Elizabeth,
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; on need for terrorism,
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; London lodgings,
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; intelligence on,
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; meets Garnet,
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; confesses Plan to Tesimond,
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; justifies Plot to Garnet,
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; Anne Vaux warns Garnet of,
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; at Bath meeting,
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; recruits new conspirators,
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; meets Montague,
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; and Ben Jonson,
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; and Monteagle Letter,
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; Monteagle writes to,
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; Wintour attempts to persuade to call off Plot,
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; and Digby,
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; confers with Percy and Wintour,
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; movements before Plot,
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; learns of discovery of Plot,
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; as suspect,
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; actions after flight from discovery,
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; injured in Holbeach gunpowder accident,
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; shot and killed at Holbeach,
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; body decapitated,
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; Rookwood’s loyalty to,
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; named at trial of Plotters,
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; absolution before Plot,
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; and Garnet’s examination and trial,
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; Anne Vaux reveals movements,
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; in Salisbury conspiracy theory,
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Catesby, Robert (the younger),
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Catesby, Sir William,
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Catherine of Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII,
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Catherine Parr, Queen of Henry VIII,
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Catholics: and death of Elizabeth,
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; welcome James’s accession,
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; ambitions to restore faith in England,
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; proscribed priests protected by women,
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; and succession to Elizabeth,
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; James’s view of,
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; in Essex conspiracy,
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; persecutions and conditions under Elizabeth,
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; women believers,
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; promises from James,
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; internal divisions in England,
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; and succession to James,
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; and Queen Anne,
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; 1603 conspiracies against James,
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; and Tassis’ mission to England,
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; expectations of liberty of conscience,
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; numbers in England,
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; James condemns,
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; persecuted under James,
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; and tyrannicide,
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; and killing of innocent (‘double-effect’),
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; observance of rituals and ceremonies,
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; priests’ knowledge of Gunpowder Plot,
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; confessional,
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; denounce Plot,
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; James turns against,
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; accused of equivocation,
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; post-Plot actions and prejudice against,
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; emancipation (1829),
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; responsibility for Gunpowder Plot,
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