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Coughton Court

Alcester, Warwickshire

Where the plotters' families waited for news from London.

Coughton Court was home to the Catholic Throckmorton family. In November 1605 it was rented by Sir Everard Digby, one of the plotters.

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When
November 1605
Where
52.2400, -1.8770
Group
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Visiting

National Trust, with family rooms and gardens to visit.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
From the book

Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

The map of the plot is the map of the hidden Catholic world: country houses, secret rooms, and families who had spent a lifetime keeping quiet.

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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