Howard House (Charterhouse)
Clerkenwell, London
The Ridolfi Plot planned a Spanish invasion, the overthrow of Elizabeth I and the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to the Duke of Norfolk. Its go-between was a Florentine banker, Roberto Ridolfi.
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- When
- 1571
- Where
- 51.5216, -0.0985
- Group
- Plots
Visiting
The Charterhouse offers guided tours and has a free museum.
Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?
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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