Hardly surprising seeing as his maw was one.It was rather a ''straw man plot'' considering James I was one of the more lenient and sympathetic monarchs towards Roman Catholicism, and all it did in the end was basically confirm, for protestants, the existence of catholic plots and strengthened state laws against recusancy. It had the exact opposite effect from what it intended which was to remove penalties! The subsequent day as it is celebrated is not one I care for.
Outstanding.Also **** having a Scottish King, it was bad enough living under Gordon ****ing Brown or posting here when Furball was a mod.
Was way worse in countries where the Protestant church was actually reformed and not the sorry excuse for a church they have in England.The violence and brutality unleashed in the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in that general era was many, many orders of magnitude worse than anything you say between Christians and Muslims today. Absurd to compare the two.
The HRE wasn't the only place where such churches took root though.Was way worse in countries where the Protestant church was actually reformed and not the sorry excuse for a church they have in England.
Yeah I liked 'in the shadows' too but i dunno about their other tracksErasmus the only good guy in that time really.
Even though it aired week to week, for some reason the BBC released them all on iPlayer straight away so I watched them in a couple of days.It’s already aired, last episode I believe was on last night. I’ve only seen the first episode so far.
^ This. Only watched due to Kit Harington being in it. Not riveting in any way.Even though it aired week to week, for some reason the BBC released them all on iPlayer straight away so I watched them in a couple of days.
That first episode is the best tbh. The actual plot is really underwhelming and they forgot to give the characters any character.
Not if they had completely succeeded. If they had completely succeeded then they would have kidnapped and installed the nine year old Princess Elizabeth on the throne and put in place an amiable regency under Percy the Earl of Northumberland, a crypto-Catholic. You have to also remember that around twenty percent of England were still Catholics (recusants) including some of the leading nobles, and a great deal more were Catholic in sympathies but had resigned themselves to the official church in order to avoid the penalties. Strident anti-Catholicism largely emanated from puritanical circles which probably only consisted of around ten percent of the population - Scotland was far more thoroughly 'reformed' than England.Had he succeeded I can't imagine you'd find enough of English Catholicism to fill a bucket once the mobs were done.
It was rather a ''straw man plot'' considering
The final episode also forgot about actual history too.Even though it aired week to week, for some reason the BBC released them all on iPlayer straight away so I watched them in a couple of days.
That first episode is the best tbh. The actual plot is really underwhelming and they forgot to give the characters any character.
Sussex/England right-arm fast?There is a BBC show coming up called Gunpowder. It has Jon Snow in it.
This has got to be a wind up surely??Not if they had completely succeeded. If they had completely succeeded then they would have kidnapped and installed the nine year old Princess Elizabeth on the throne and put in place an amiable regency under Percy the Earl of Northumberland, a crypto-Catholic. You have to also remember that around twenty percent of England were still Catholics (recusants) including some of the leading nobles, and a great deal more were Catholic in sympathies but had resigned themselves to the official church in order to avoid the penalties. Strident anti-Catholicism largely emanated from puritanical circles which probably only consisted of around ten percent of the population - Scotland was far more thoroughly 'reformed' than England.
That is what they intended: Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland for Protector.This has got to be a wind up surely??
Well I don't know if Percy was a Durham fan if that is what you are getting at? He'd have presumably supported Northumberland in the minor counties.How the **** do manage to bring up the North East of England in a Guy Fawkes thread? It's almost impressive how you can do this.