Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you

First they hired the house at Westminster, of one Ferres, and having his house they sought then to make a mine under the Upper House of

If he will not otherwise confess," the King had ended by saying, "the gentler tortures are to be first used unto him.”Continuing The Gunpowder

Though Fawkes kept silence as to the mine, he did not keep silence on the desperate character of the work on which he had been engaged.Continuing