Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

Toronto: DOUBLEDAY. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 0385256205 . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, illustrated with colour and B&W plates.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 347 pages; "In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce Catholicism as the state religion, daringly placed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in a cellar under the Palace of Westminster. Their aim was to ignite the gunpowder at the opening of the Parliamentary session. Though the charismatic Catholic, Robert Catesby, was the group's leader, it was the devout Guy Fawkes who emerged as its most famous member, as he was the one who was captured and who revealed under torture the names of his fellow plotters. In the aftermath of their arrests, conditions grew worse for English Catholics, as legal penalties against them were stiffened and public sentiment became rabidly intolerant." .