White Webbs
Enfield, London
White Webbs was a quiet house on Enfield Chase, rented by Anne Vaux, a devoted Catholic who sheltered the Jesuit priest Henry Garnet. Catesby and other plotters came and went here in the months before November 1605.
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- When
- 1605
- Where
- 51.6720, -0.0750
- Group
- Plots
Visiting
The original house is gone. White Webbs Park and a later house of the same name stand nearby.
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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