Martin: What was the 'Gunpowder Plot' of 1605?
Phelps: The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was the Jesuits attempt to destroy what William Howitt-and Howitt was the great writer who wrote A Popular History Of Priestcraft, 1835-he said it was a Jesuit attempt to destroy our Great King Solomon, King James I, along with the entire Protestant Parliament. Because remember, Elizabeth I had expelled the Jesuits from her empire, and if they were ever caught they were to be drawn and quartered.
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