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Oooopppssss, what with having to go to hospital to get my ‘warfarin levels’ checked, I forget to add this part of all the notes I had been collecting into the posts concerning ‘Guy Fawkes Night’ . . . Sooorrrryyyyyyy (blush)
‘The story appears to be very simple’:
After the death of Queen Elizabeth the first (Henry the eighths daughter), England, Wales and Ireland did not have a monarch to succeed her as she died ‘without issue’. So before her death, she made arrangements with her politicians, that she intended to ‘leave her throne’ to the nearest ‘relative’ to her.
Now that happened to be the son of her ‘cousin’ – the woman and monarch of Scotland (whom Elizabeth, had executed) – ‘Bloody’ Mary! Her son who had inherited his ‘mothers’ throne in Scotland, becoming King James 6th of Scotland and (because ‘England’ had never had a ‘James’ on the throne) He became James The First of ‘England’ (and Wales and Ireland).
Catholics in England had expected him to be more tolerant of them (his mother, had been a catholic but had him raised a protestant to avoid the same thing be-falling him).
In fact, he had proved to be the opposite and had ordered all Catholic priests to leave England.
This so angered some Catholics that they decided to kill James and put his daughter Elizabeth on the throne ensuring that she was a Catholic.
This led to ‘the plot’ to kill not only the king of England, James, but also everyone sitting in the Houses of Parliament at the same time as James was there when he opened Parliament on November 5th, 1605.
