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Bonfire Night, 1994, in Lewes, Sussex, where celebrations, for better or for worse, continue to flourish.

About the Author

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies
Mary
,
Queen of Scots
(a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009),
Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
,
King Charles II
and
The Gunpowder Plot
(CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history,
The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
(Wolfson Award for History, 1984),
The Warrior Queens: Boadicea’s Chariot
,
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
,
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
(Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. She lives in London.

By Antonia Fraser

Mary Queen of Scots

Cromwell: Our Chief of Men

James VI of Scotland, 1 of England

(
Kings and Queens
series)

King Charles II

The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea’s Chariot

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

A Phoenix ebook

First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
This ebook first published in 2010 by Phoenix

Copyright © Antonia Fraser 1996

The moral right of Antonia Fraser to be identifed as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

eISBN: 978 0 2978 5793 8

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Table of Contents

Cover

Praise

Title

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Family Trees

Map of the conspirators in the Midlands

Author’s Note

PROLOGUE : Bountiful Beginnings

PART ONE : Before the Fruit Was Ripe

1 Whose Head for the Crown?
2 The Honest Papists
3 Diversity of Opinions

PART TWO : The Horse of St George

4 A King and his Cubs
5 Spanish Charity
6 Catesby as Phaeton

PART THREE : That Furious and Fiery Course

7 So Sharp a Remedy
8 Pernicious Gunpowder
9 There Is a Risk…
10 Dark and Doubtful Letter

PART FOUR : Discovery – By God or the Devil

11 Mr Fawkes Is Taken
12 The Gentler Tortures
13 Fire and Brimstone
14 These Wretches

PART FIVE : The Shadow of Death

15 The Heart of a Traitor
16 The Jesuits’ Treason
17 Farewells
18 Satan’s Policy?

Notes

Reference Books

Index

Illustrations

About the Author

By Antonia Fraser

Copyright

Table of Contents

Cover

Praise

Title

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Family Trees

Map of the conspirators in the Midlands

Author’s Note

PROLOGUE : Bountiful Beginnings

PART ONE : Before the Fruit Was Ripe

1 Whose Head for the Crown?
2 The Honest Papists
3 Diversity of Opinions

PART TWO : The Horse of St George

4 A King and his Cubs
5 Spanish Charity
6 Catesby as Phaeton

PART THREE : That Furious and Fiery Course

7 So Sharp a Remedy
8 Pernicious Gunpowder
9 There Is a Risk…
10 Dark and Doubtful Letter

PART FOUR : Discovery – By God or the Devil

11 Mr Fawkes Is Taken
12 The Gentler Tortures
13 Fire and Brimstone
14 These Wretches

PART FIVE : The Shadow of Death

15 The Heart of a Traitor
16 The Jesuits’ Treason
17 Farewells
18 Satan’s Policy?

Notes

Reference Books

Index

Illustrations

About the Author

By Antonia Fraser

Copyright

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