Was Guy/Guido Fawkes framed?

Answer 1

According to Webster Tarpley, he and the rest of the plotters were patsies. Powerful members of the governing classes wanted to turn the population against the Catholics (as they needed a scapegoat) and wanted to consolidate their own power by causing mass fear of "terrorism". Sound familiar?

Answer 2

Set up as the authorities knew of the plan from the dealings and the buying of such an amount of gunpowder. In fact it is said they could easily have put a stop to it at anytime but waited till the eve to make it a bigger deal than it was.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

One of his gang sent a letter to a certain mp telling him to stay away,Which aroused suspicion.

Answer 5

Many historians today agree with the Catholics of the time that the Gunpowder Plot conspirators were framed by James I's chief minister, Robert Cecil.

Cecil hated the Catholics and wanted to show them to be against the country. It is believed that Francis Tresham, who sent the warning note to his brother-in-law, may have been working for Cecil. There is evidence to support this view:

Cecil is quoted as saying '..we cannot hope to have good government while large numbers of people (Catholics) go around obeying foreign rulers (The Pope).' This shows how much he hated the Catholics and wanted rid of them.

Lord Monteagle received the warning letter at night. The night he received it was the only night in 1605 that he stayed at home. Could he have been waiting for it?

All available supplies of gunpowder were kept in the Tower of London.

The cellar was rented to the conspirators by a close friend of Robert Cecil.

All of the conspirators were executed except one - Francis Tresham.

The signature on Guy Fawkes' confession did not match his normal signature.

According to the written confession of Francis Tresham, he was drawn into the plot on 14 October 1605 at his brother-in-law Lord Stourton's house in Clerkenwell. Although the government claimed he was made privy to it in May 1604, the other plotters, namely Guy Fawkes and Thomas Wintour, declared in their confessions that Tresham was the last to be admitted into the group.

He at first tried to discourage Catesby and the plan he had formulated, even going so far as to offer him money to leave the kingdom. He was then most vocal in outlining his support for warnings being sent to certain Catholic peers, including his two brothers-in-law William Parker, Lord Monteagle, and Lord Stourton.

Soon after news of the Monteagle Letter broke, the conspirators immediately suspected Tresham. As a consequence of this, they summoned him to come without delay to meet Catesby and Thomas Wintour at White Webbs. The meeting occurred on 1 November. Tresham 'exonerated himself with such oaths and emphatic asseverations of innocence that his companions were convinced, at least for the time being, of his basic fidelity'.

On 2 November, Tresham was still trying to convince the other conspirators that the plot was discovered and that they should all take safety in flight. According to Tesimond, Tresham's argument appeared to indicate to them that he knew more than he was prepared to say. On the same day Tresham received a licence to travel abroad for two years "with two servants, three horses or geldings, and 50 pounds in money, with all other his necessaries". This in itself has fueled speculation over the years that Tresham seems to have become the principal double agent in the piece. Edwards claims 'The Writer's [Tesimond] reserve with regard to Francis Tresham is surely significant. Alone of the plotters, his character receives no eulogy', implying the popular, and generally accepted theory that Tresham was the author of the letter, and the plot's betrayer.

When news of Fawkes' capture spread through London, all the conspirators, except Tresham, left with haste. There is also reason to believe that far from attempting to hide, Tresham offered his services to the government. Nonetheless, he had time to return to Northamptonshire and hide his personal papers. The first news of Tresham's complicity is mentioned in a letter from Sir William Waad dated 8 November 1605, in which he spoke of Tresham as "long a pensioner of the King of Spain, and a suspicious person".

Tresham was arrested on 12 November. The following day, he wrote a long five page statement in his own hand of his relations with the conspirators, including his introduction to the plot by Catesby, and that he had been guilty of concealment, but had tried to have the plot postponed until after the present sitting of parliament to see how the Catholic's would fare under the new recusancy laws. On 29 November 1605, he confessed his own and Father Henry Garnet's complicity in the Spanish Treason.

In the end, Tresham died in the Tower without having ever been publicly examined. It is not known if he died of a strangury (an acute and painful inflammation of the urinary tract resulting in retention of fluid), or that he was helped on to his death by the hand of those who, after forcing him to do what he did for them, did not wish that he should say anything more, or to reward him as he deserved. Certainly he was attended in his last days by a number of physicians, all of whom corroborated the governments statement as to his death, and his wife Anne. Knowing he was about to die, he dictated to William Vavasour, his servant, a declaration denying Garnet's knowledge of Wintour's mission to Spain. Vavasour had also transcribed a copy of Blackwell's "Treatise of Equivocation" for Tresham, an issue that Garnet was confronted with at his own trial.

Although he had not been indicted, he was treated as a traitor; he was attainted with the other conspirators, and his goods and land forfeited.

Speculation still surrounds the death of Tresham even to this day. Francis Edwards, SJ, is one of several leading scholars who support the theory that Tresham did not perhaps die in the Tower, and was allowed to escape to Spain, where he traveled under the alias Matthew Brunninge

Answer 6

no. he was caught for the reason of reveling to much of his plan!

Answer 7

No I think he was hung drawn and quartered !!

Answer 8

No, I think he was burned.

Answer 9

no just betrayed