It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
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About This Book
Excert from the bookThis book is mainly about the treasonable plot to blow up Parliament, bymining through to its lowest floor, or basement, from an adjacent house.This plot was hatched by a number of Catholic gentlemen, and was quiteingenious. These people came from a wide area of England, and numberedabout thirty. One point of interest to your reviewer is that one of theplaces where they met, or retreated to when not personally involved inmining, was a house called White Webbs, just on what is now the northernlimit of London. This house is now in use as a very nice and popularrestaurant, wel...
Chapters (46)
- Emily Sarah Holt "It might have been"
- Preface.
- Chapter One.
- The last Night in the Old Home.
- Chapter Two.
- The Journey to London.
- Chapter Three.
- How it first began.
- Chapter Four.
- We get into bad Company.
- Chapter Five.
- Begins with Temperance, and ends with Treachery.
- Chapter Six.
- Wait a Month.
- Chapter Seven.
- An Apple-Cast and a Letter.
- Chapter Eight.
- The Fifth of November.
- Chapter Nine.
- On the weary Way to Holbeach.
- Chapter Ten.
- The Chain of our Sins.
- Chapter Eleven.
- According to that Beginning.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The Fruit of his own Way.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Which is full of Surprises.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Ends with Joyce Morrell.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Appendix.
- Robert Catesby.
- Sir Everard Digby.
- Guy Fawkes.
- Henry Garnet.
- John Grant.
- Robert Keyes.
- Humphrey and Stephen Littleton.
- William Parker, Lord Monteagle.
- Thomas Percy.
- Ambrose Rookwood.
- Francis Tresham.
- Robert, Thomas, and John Winter.
- John and Christopher Wright.
- The End.
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