We will not now pause to consider it minutely either for praise or for blame.Continuing English Settle Virginia,our selection from A History of
English Settle Virginia
This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: James I Grants Patents for Virginia Colonization.IntroductionMore than a
No Further Need to Fear Coup
Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you
Fawkes Reveals the Plan
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
King Orders Fawkes to be Tortured
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
Fawkes Collects the Explosives
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
The Gunpowder Plot
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Guy Fawkes’ Confession.IntroductionIf successful, this plot would have
King James I Suppresses Irish Catholics
When King James succeeded to the throne he promised the Irish that they should have the right of practicing their religion, at least in private; but