Primrose Hill
Camden, London
In 1678 Titus Oates claimed there was a vast Catholic plot to murder Charles II. The magistrate who took his statement, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, then vanished.
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- When
- October 1678
- Where
- 51.5393, -0.1607
- Group
- Plots
Visiting
An open park with one of the best views over London.
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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