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8. Haynes, Alan, The Gunpowder Plot, p. 129
9. Caulfield, James, A History of the Gunpowder Plot, p. 74
10. Jardine, David, A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, p. 169
11. Ibid., p. 171
12. Ibid., p. 257
13. Fraser, Antonia, The Gunpowder Plot, pp. 268-9
14. Edwards, Father Francis (ed.), The Narrative, p. 159
15. Fraser, Antonia, The Gunpowder Plot, p. 245
16. Davis, John Paul, Pity for the Guy, pp. 236-7
17. Ratcliffe, Susan (ed.), Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations, p. 389
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The Tower of London (note Traitor’s Gate below).
Guy Fawkes laying the gunpowder by George Cruikshank.
Queen Elizabeth’s ‘rainbow portrait’.
Baron Monteagle by John de Critz the Elder.
James I (artist unknown).
Lady Elizabeth Stuart, aged 7, by Robert Peake the Elder. The plotters planned to make her Queen.
Thomas Percy (artist unknown).
The Somerset House Conference, by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. The conference sealed peace between Spain and England, fuelling the gunpowder plot.
The Death Of Catesby by George Cruikshank.
Saint Margaret Clitherow.
St Michael-le-Belfrey church, York, where Guy Fawkes was baptised in 1570.
A Plot With Powder, seventeenth centrury illustration.
Sir Robert Cecil by John de Critz the Elder.
