The Gunpowder Plot*
Guy Fawkes was not a spy and his execution was expertly faked. He was a government agent.
We swaped a plotter who looked a lot like Guy Fawkes for him on the way to his
execution. That is why we had them all dragged on sleds like in the picture
The man riding his horse simply took a longer route and ducked into a
side street where the real plotter replaced Guy Fawkes. A couple
of sharp turns on the way to the execution rolled the sled over
several times and that made his face so bloody no one could tell
him from Guy
Fawkes. The loud crowd covered his screams of 'I'm not Fawkes'.
Other of our agents got out of execution different ways such as swaping
a dead body from the morgue for Garnet at the last second which I
explain here.
The
destruction of Spain's intelligence network in England was the
English plot which the 'Gunpowder Plot' turned into.
It was all a big trap to draw in all their spies and to bring them all
down at once. There were so many plots to kill or kidnap King James
that it had to be done this way. Otherwise the plots were just going to
continue until they were sucessful. (See the Main Plot and Bye Plot.)
Note: The kidnapping plot was likely to have taken place on the way to Hatfield House
and that is why King James traded it to us for Theobalds. That is not
known as the reason for the exchange but it is pretty obvious.
I took the name of Anne Vaux and I can tell you that we
were successful
in
completely taking over and then destroying Spain s entire spy ring by
capturing
every spy and all their resources.
Queen Elizabeth had directed, hourly at times, the anti spy operations in England and we loved it since she was
incredibly canny and effective at catching more spies than anyone else ever had.
Though it was after her reign it was done the same way as she would
have done things. Nearly every resource was brought to bear to stop
such assassinations as they
always should be.
The Gunpowder plot took so much time that I don't
understand why nobody realizes
the whole operation was taken over by British intelligence almost from
the start. For Christ's
sake it took over a year and a half. Eight month's after Guy and I got
involved in May 1604 we rented the cellar. That was in March 1605. If
the plot had been
real then the gunpowder would have gone into the cellar the same day
and set off the next. That would have blown
the Lords and the Royals to Kingdom come. However, another eight
months rolled by before we pulled the plug on the operation. It was
the day the gunpowder was to be set off, November
5, 1605. (The dates can be confirmed here.)
Yes, they were
aiming for Nov. 5 but be realistic. It's could have been
November 5 the year before. Also, November 5 was
not that important.
Certainly not enough to delay the explosion so much as two days.
However, by delaying it for a year and a half English Intelligence was
able to learn the identity of almost every Spanish spy and sympathizer
in England. That is the reason for the delay..
Wouldn't spending a year and a half to pile up some gunpowder and light the fuse make you very suspicious? To
assure you that I was there just read this
proof.
Was
there was so many plotters and so much gunpowder that we had to capture
everything and not just break up the ring. There was no chance of
Parliament being blown up once Guy Fawkes talked them out of their
first idea.
People also ask 'why would King James take such a
chance with the lives of Parliament'. The plain truth of the matter is
that he did not take any chances. No one in the English government
did, after Guy got involved.
Guy
Fawkes was
a government agent who was planted midway in the plot to take over
the whole affair.** Once he got control of the plot then the safest
place for all that gunpowder was in storage with him having the key.
During the sessions of Parliament the conspirators all had to stay far
away. Then we stationed Yeomen
of the Guard (Beef eaters) all underground to prevent anyone
from accessing the room. It was totally safe for Parliament.
Why we had to take over
the gunpowder plot instead of just breaking it up-
There were too many conspirators and too much gunpowder running around
for us to have done anything else or used any other method. You often
see law enforcement take down drug rings and usually about 1/4 of the
people get away and they admit that less than 10% of the drugs get
stopped. We had to capture (or kill) every one of the conspirators and
every last bit of the gunpowder. This was the only way we could protect
Parliament and stop any further attempts.
Otherwise one man could have done everything. He could have simply put
a barrel of gunpowder on
a donkey and run it in through the doors of Parliament and that would have
made their plan to destroy the government work or
just
rolled two barrels down the steps of Westminster Hall (right
past
where the Queen is standing) and that could have ended the
government too.
What the conspirators planned
before we took over the plot.
The conspirators
had just about settled on running a few wagons in between and on the
back sides of the buildings while they were in session and
setting
them off so the walls would cave in on all the buildings at once and
thereby
destroying the entire government. That is over here on the 'proof page'.
What was needed-
We had to first talk them out of using this simple foolproof method
of destroying the English Government. There was really no better way,
in fact there was no a bad way that made a bit of sense
but we had to invent one and we had to get someone who could convince
the plotters that our lie was better..
Why Guy Fawkes?
Guy
Fawkes was an Ensign going on a Colonel. By that I mean he was paid the
same as a colonel, did the work of a Colonel and was really a Colonel.
The Austrians did not want anybody to know this and a colonel insignia
would have given away that he had special knowledge.
Intelligence
groups do this often even today.
So
we got
our best agent who was an expert on explosives to both manufacture and
perpetrate a lie.putting the gunpowder in the cellar
was the only thing we could come up with that looked like it might be a
marginally better idea.
He served for
many years as a soldier,
gaining considerable expertise with explosives. In 1593 he enlisted in
the army of Archduke Albert of
Austria
in the Netherlands,
fighting against the Protestant
United Provinces
in the Eighty Years' War.
In 1596 he was present at the siege and capture of Calais.
By 1602, however, he had still risen no higher than the rank of ensign.
Wikipedia
He had served as
an English agent for ten years in the
Netherlands Spanish army under Archduke Albert of Austria in charge
of defense works and his primary task was to determine the
vulnerability of their defenses. Since he
was English he was there to expose the weak point of the defenses to
English weapons and tactics. (That is why he was present at
certain battles but not usually actively involved directly in them.)
While we were walking to one of the meetings I asked him how he had
gotten away with it for so long. He said he faithfully advised the
Archduke about all the vulnerabilities and all the ways to correct them
and he never lied or deceived except that he never told them about the
worst vulnerability. That is the only one that he sent to England and
nothing about the others. He
gave each side completely different information and it went on for over
ten years. Even though there were three interceptions it was never the
same information so they never could catch him.
The problem they mainly faced were new forms of gunpowder that could
destroy walls. Italy and Spain were learning that certain additions to
the basic gunpowder
formula changed it's actions. Some were more shattering and others
burned extremely hot. Guy was a specialist in both kinds but what he
told me about that has stuck with me for 400 years was the 'fusing
powders', which were very hot burning gunpowders which were really
early forms of thermite. The formulas were kept
secret so the
references
say that thermite was invented in the 1890's. However, as it says any
of about 20 metals known in 1600 can and were used to create very high
heat. (What
kind of fools do they think people were back then? Do you think we were
too stupid to add finely ground iron and copper filings to
gunpowder in order to make thermite?) A
few ounce of one of these mixtures poured between the stones
of a
wall and then lit would often cause
more damage than the broadsides of ten ships. It would heat
the stone walls until it cracked and would become powder to the touch.
If no one saw it then nobody would know that it had been done. Six
months later an attack could easily breach that part of the
wall.
This
was the expertise that we had to have to talk the conspirators out of
doing it right. You
can see why it wasn't that simple. There were about three issues that
made it really difficult and I'll put them here when I recall them.
Who
was I-
I think I
was Anne
Vaux and I played a
modified version of the Anne
Vavasor role
by remaining devoted even when it is nonsense and it sways me
from
the path of righteousness. As Anne Vavasor I was devoted to Queen
Elizabeth in spite of her throwing me in the Tower of London and as
Anne Vaux to the Jesuits in spite of them getting me caught up in what
can best be described as Jesuit terrorist bombings.
That was me that set them up in
a house for the meetings
hidden people could listen through the walls and I may have got them
the lead on the cellar under parliament which was a trap. Look
at
the name Anne Vaux. My name when I was a maid of honor to Queen
Elizabeth was Anne Vavasor. It's not that different at all. Anne V was
a great combination and this was a really high drama acting job.
Read:
Anne
Vaux was born in 1562, the daughter of a Catholic nobleman, Lord Vaux
of Harrowden. She was a cousin of Francis Tresham. Unmarried, she seems
to have devoted her life to supporting the cause of Catholicism in
England and for many years she helped the Jesuit priest Henry Garnett
to carry out his secret missionary work.
Working
often with her widowed sister, Eleanor Brooksby, she created safe
houses for Garnett and other clerics. One of them was Baddesley Clinton
in Warwickshire, now belonging to the National Trust; another was White
Webbs in Enfield Chase, near London. Both houses were fitted up with
priest holes or hiding places for the priests.
[Note:
Those hiding places were not for priests. We made them in house we used
and they were for the government agents to hide in so they could listen
in on the plotters.]
Several
of the conspirators met at White Webbs in the summer and autumn of
1605, and although she did not know about the Plot, Anne Vaux did have
some suspicions. After the discovery of the Plot she was arrested but
soon released, and following her release tried to protect Garnett,
posing as his sister, a Mrs Perkins. By the beginning of December
Garnett was in hiding at Hindlip House, where he was eventually found
on 27 January.
After his arrest, Anne Vaux followed Garnett to London and tried to
pass secret messages to him, which were intercepted by the authorities.
She was herself arrested again in March and interrogated. Distraught at
Garnett's death, she was released in August and lived first in
Leicestershire and then in Derbyshire, where she ran a Catholic school.
She died some time after 1637.Read the
full dramatic text
here.
Doesn't
this
just sound like it is a little bit too much to be real? Doesn't this
really sound more like one of those bards plays? I rest my case.
It is, Anne
Vaux never existed. They messed up Anne's fake
bio in the history books though. Anne Vaux was supposed to go down
throughout history as having run not a Catholic
school but
a Catholic Orphanage (making over population and birth control an
issue). Also, there is nothing about my being the daughter of
an English Catholic (not very) Noble-man who was so hated by
my
step mother (who my father married immediately) that I was sent off as
an infant to live out my life of obscurity in a Portuguese Convent.
Then to be rescued by Jesuit monks to whom I became
blindly devoted. (Imagine a 1600's cult member and you have
Anne
Vaux.)
However,
without the history of me being saved by the Jesuits
being known my personality lacks a distinct balance. So instead of
making me appear truly devoted to those who had given me freedom it
makes me appear to be a slavish fool for having stupidly allowed myself
to get talked into their 'Jesuit terrorist bombings'. You can read
through the Vaux genealogy here
to see how I laid out my character, however keep in mind that this Anne
Vaux never really existed. Besides I was supposed to have been a
daughter by the maid and not the wife. The father was never a very
responsible person and got himself in lots of trouble which left behind
dozens of children by many women (although he was said to have been a
great Catholic). Maybe Anne Vaux did exist, since William Vaux
secretly sent a young infant to Portugal around that
time. That is what one of the captains who worked for my husband's
shipping firm once told me although he could not recall the date
exactly. He being the captain he was paid lots of 'slime money' not to
tell anyone about his infant passenger who was shipped in a
box.
Anne
Vaux had various past history's according to the need such as whether
Anne Vaux had to be a Catholic or common criminal. To make her
qualified to be involved in a Catholic plot we gave her father William
Vaux a really
bad record as a papist.
Committed by
the Privy Council to the Fleet prison, and after in the Star
Chamber
[a feared courtroom] 15 Nov following for harbouring,
Edmund
Campion
and for contempt of court, was sentenced to imprisonment in the Fleet
and a fime of £1000; 18 Aug 1581 Here
The
strangest
thing is even after this false record about my father being
deeply
involved in Catholic intrigues people still thought I did not know
anything.
...and although she did not know about the Plot, Anne Vaux did have
some suspicions
If
the
plotters were going to keep their plot a secret from someone they would
have used someone whose family had a clean record and were
above suspicion and, not
someone from that family. It is totally logical that I had to
be
involved in the Gunpowder Plot or else I was a spy. Actually the
plotters did not accept me at until we changed the record of William
Vaux so they would trust me. However, even then, for a long time the
plotters did not trust me.
O.K. I
admit it, I
invented the whole family or maybe Queen Elizabeth technically did, you
decide. It never existed except in my mind and it was scenes
to a
play I was going to produce. Well I needed a man's name to
publish my poems when I was Anne Vavasor. I know it is a high crime to
pretend to be an aristocrat in England, you can probably still be drawn
and quartered for doing it (and have all your holding confiscated).
There is only one reason I would ever do such a thing. Queen Elizabeth ordered
me to.
First she ordered me to publish my poetry and I explained to her I had
to be a man to have a contract and I did not have the money to publish
it. The only way that I could get the money was from the book dealers
but they would not give any money. They would sign an agreement to buy
the books but I had to be an aristocrat man to get a loan against the
book sellers note. Queen Elizabeth said 'why not become one'.
I
asked her 'Do you want me to pretend to be an Earl?'
She
said 'heaven's
no, there are a only a few Earls and everyone knows their finances. 'We
will do a baron, they always have land but not always money. There are
lots of them around and not near enough to London for my tax
collectors. Some are on rocks in the ocean. The bankers won't even
bother to look and with land holdings you will get your loan right
away.'
She
was our queen so she could do whatever she wanted and she made
the Barony of
Harrowden then and there. I guess they
back dated the barony to 1523 and for a few days I became William VAUX
(3° Baron Vaux of Harrowden)
until I got the loan. Actually I think I played his made up wife
Elizabeth who was getting the book of poetry reprinted for the father,
Thomas Vaux posthumously. I had to do it since William had lost the use
of his legs and his left arm so he could not attend to it himself but
his right arm and hand worked which meant he could sign papers. I just
had to do the foot work, poor man.
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Queen
Elizabeth may not have actually started the Barony. There were two
Baron's whose entire families had been recently murdered by an
uprisings of the local population. It was due mainly to hardships by
the mini Ice age or at least that was what was claimed until one of
these
revolts were investigated and it was found that the Baron and
his
son's had
started acting like Vlad the Impaler. They had murdered about half the
men in
the local villages so that they could have their women. A lot of these
investigations ended up with more questions than answers because of two
recent advents which created unforeseen and completely new
problems.
The
colder damp weather of the mini Ice Age caused huge amounts of mold
growths everywhere. (This is why you don't have that many English
paintings or manuscripts from before the 1500's. The
climate had become like that of Scandinavian countries where they gave
up on keeping records and a written language because of the molds). For
the first time in history England
experienced whole counties going mad due to Ergot
and other unknown
grain molds
sending
everyone on LSD trips. Another issue was the recently
arrived disease Syphilis (from the new world). During
the final stage of that disease everyone went stark raving mad. Like I
said more questions were often produced than answers.
I
think the
Barony of Harrowden was actually started in the 1300's,
terminated by the peasants and then I helped cover it up by assuming
the baronesses identity and rewriting the family history. Could I claim
the other barony that was made to completely disappear?
What
do you get if you are a baron these days? Is it of any
benefit or
is it like dating a movie star? It's an expensive proposition,
time consuming and requires all your attention but you can end up
looking really good. (Or bad but whichever it is you know it is always
going to be very high profile.)
I know of another barony near the east coast that stopped being used.
It was just forgotten (covered up) about when an unknown mold the local
villagers and the entire barons family (killing
about 200 people) when they drank the ale that the baron provided for a
wedding which he had made from bad grain.
There was another one I vaguely recall in Wales where the mold toxins
just made the peasants sick and that made them think the baron
was
evil. |
Since
I was the
wife of the son acting on behalf of him the poetry is sometimes
attributed to William Vaux. The most famous poem is this
one immediately below. You will notice I carefully avoid any
thing which determines my sex, just like in most of the sonnets.
I think I used the poem in one of the plays.
- I LOATHE
that I did love,
- In youth that I thought sweet,
- As time requires for my behove,
- Methinks they are not meet.
- My lusts they do me leave,
- My fancies all be fled,
- And tract of time begins to weave
- Gray hairs upon my head.
- For age with stealing steps
- Hath clawed me with his crutch,
- And lusty life away she leaps
- As there had been none such.
- My Muse doth not delight
- Me as she did before;
- My hand and pen are not in plight,
- As they have been of yore.
- For reason me denies
- This youthly idle rhyme;
- And day by day to me she cries,
- ``Leave off these toys in time.''
- The wrinkles in my brow,
- The furrows in my face,
- Say, limping age will lodge him now
- Where youth must give him place.
- The harbinger of death,
- To me I see him ride,
- The cough, the cold, the gasping breath
- Doth bid me to provide
- A pickaxe and a spade,
- And eke a shrouding sheet,
- A house of clay for to be made
- For such a guest most meet.
- Methinks I hear the clark
- That knolls the careful knell,
- And bids me leave my woeful wark,
- Ere nature me compel.
- My keepers knit the knot
- That youth did laugh to scorn,
- Of me that clean shall be forgot
- As I had not been born.
- Thus must I youth give up,
- Whose badge I long did wear;
- To them I yield the wanton cup
- That better may it bear.
- Lo, here the bared skull,
- By whose bald sign I know
- That stooping age away shall pull
- Which youthful years did sow.
- For beauty with her band
- These crooked cares hath wrought,
- And shipped me into the land
- From whence I first was brought.
- And ye that bide behind,
- Have ye none other trust:
- As ye of clay were cast by kind,
- So shall ye waste to dust.
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After
the book was
published the name lay unused and then we used it for England's spy
network. The off and on for 30 years I was Anne Vaux.
I
wonder if I could use the title like I used to? What do you
think?
You
probably
want some proof. I'll have to find some. I'm afraid that this
one
was under our complete control so everything that was needed to make
the cover up complete and effective was done. No compromises needed to
be made and so were not. It may just be near impossible to find any
flaws in the records or the recorded history.
Maybe what wasn't done will work as proof. If you trace the Vaux family
you will find that most branches of the family just dead end. You will
find members who wrote
like the bard and you find references to members who were patrons
of the bard. And then in a few years almost everyone in the
lineage just disappears. The
lineage
fell into abeyance for several hundred years and nobody used it. Who
are all those people named Vaux? I can tell you this. When I was
heading up internal intelligence for Queen Elizabeth half of the
internal spies had a name on that family tree reserved that they could
use. We could easily bring in many spies into any situation without
raising suspicions by just bringing in relatives (who weren't). In a
way you could say the Vaux family were MI-5.
I started to read the origin of the Vaux family and it's vaguely
familiar. I jumped to the second paragraph and half way through
one of my own forty word sentences I said to myself
'Wait a second I remember writing this':
Her husband,
whom she had married not long before she
obtained her letters of denization, was slain at the battle of
Tewkesbury after
which he was attainted and his property forfeited, but not even his
death shook
Catherine
Vaux's loyalty: she stayed by the Queen during her imprisonment in the
Tower and on Margaret's release in 1476 went with her into exile (as
she had
done earlier in the 1460s), living with her until her death six years
later.
It's
total high drama and a plot worthy of the bards plays. Since Queen
Elizabeth had asked me to give the family a 'rich' history I did
exactly as I was commanded. Want some more? Just
scroll down this
page and you will be amazed and delighted. It's a one page
play.
I do hope you enjoy it as it
took me two days to write up the history and including all those
despicable men and all those devoted women. Most family lineages are as
dry as a laundry list but the Vaux's will make you cry a bucket full of
tears. Oh, there is your evidence in the form of the outline of an
unwritten but typical play of the bards.
You can see how
this way of living gets to be a lot of fun and almost as much fun as
acting the life of Anne Vavasor
the victims of both the Earl of Oxford and Queen Elizabeth who
threw her in the tower...(read about it here)
I
was right in
the thick of it but I pretended to be a dumb as a 'potatoes' which was
a strange fruit that had just come from the New World which nobody
could figure out how to cook, so they just sat around the kitchens of
England doing nothing and looking stupid like I tried to do.
When we first got involved with the plotters I had to wait outside the
room they met in. When the others plotters wanted to talk without Guy
hearing them they would walk across the room and talk next to
the door (near where I was sitting
outside) Guy was half deaf which was the sign of a real
expert at explosives so he
couldn't hear them. He would cough really loud once and that was my
signal to walk over and listen through the door to those men holding
their private conversation.
About every third time they would open the door really fast and
catch me with my ear almost against it. They would ask me if I was
listening to them and I'd just tell them 'I have to pee'.
Ladies,
always remember this fact. When you
need it the most of, all you have to do is say that you have
to pee
and you can call time out for a few minutes. By the time I
got back I'd be dumb and forgotten what we had been talking about five
minutes earlier. Always I pretended that I had to pee so badly that I
had
blinders on to every thing else that had been going on.
Useful
women's information-
When a woman has to pee nobody can ask any other
questions until she gets back.
It works
great for all kinds of situations because men are socially not allowed
to talk about such things regarding women. Their
mother taught them this and also that they also have to consider such
needs as if they were coming from their own mother. When
their mother had to pee it was immediate and it took priority
over
everything else that was going on. And of course questioning
was not
allowed.
It got me
out of quite a few situations where I sensed I was probably
going to be raped. For
this it is exceptional. It implies that you might urinate on them
and men who like that pay experts for the service. It also
implies that
you are going to come right back and they will get it voluntarily
but you had better keep on going when you go to the bathroom. The best
part is the transformation in
thinking that occurs. Men who rape usually think of all women as being
either mothers
or whores.
Wives, sisters and mothers compose the first group and so do you once
you transform into his mom when you tell him you need to pee.
This
last part only comes
into play about 90 percent of the time. Some men are just plain mean to
all people. This next adds to the effect. Talk about his
mother or
at least his family. It amplifies the
effect and then it works almost every single time.
If that doesn't work then in less than a minute pee and say you have
this horrible infection which doesn't allow you to hold your bladder.
You have to use the bathroom right away and it's been like that for the
last three years since you had sex with that _____ (fill in the
race the man hates the most). That worked for me |
When they tested the various gunpowders by burning little piles of it
they would come out afterwards and ask me if I heard anything. For
goodness sakes the acrid smoke from all the burning gunpowder would
come billowing out around them and choke me half to death but
they
didn't think it.
They were not rocket scientist but Guy Fawkes was and that is how the
English Government took over the Spanish Gunpowder Plot.
How we did it-
By taking over
the entire plot England was able to get all the names of the
conspirators to the last man (and woman), get all the gunpowder and
prevent the destruction of the new government King James (I). England.
Guy
Fawkes and my relative, Sir
William Stanley,
were both English agents. You might notice in the bios of both of these
men, nothing they were involved in against England ever succeeded and
almost everyone else got caught.
It's
in the records and shown in the drawing of the execution that the
guilty were 'hanged, drawn and
quartered'
which was an outdated method of execution by then. Simple hanging and
beheading had mainly taken it's place. However this old method of
execution allowed
for Guy Fawkes and two other government agents to escape death. When
you end up waist deep in pieces of bodies who is going to count
them up to figure out whether there are enough right arms, left legs,
etc. and who they belonged to determine if the right men were actually
executed?
Their friends (Catholic conspirators) would want the body to check and
see if it was the right person.
This
way they got a big bag of body parts minus the head which were put on
poles until birds ate them out beyond recognition.
For two of our agents they used a flesh colored leather collar
that would strap
down invisibly around their neck. On the inside there were overlapping
rings. Some were linked and some could be adjusted by small straps just enough to prevent the rope from pinching off
the blood flow completely. The person could move their head and even bend
their neck and they would pass out but they would not die. It was fitted beforehand and the hangman had to be
in on it. It was quite ingenious because it looked like it
really choked the person to death.
Pointless
additional information-
Through hundreds of years the armorers had learned this and much more. They
got so good at metal work that they sometimes made the elbow and wrist
of armor lock so if a knight twisted his arm ten degrees it would
create a virtual 6 foot lance out of his arm and sword. They would have
to hold the sword by it's hilt instead of the handle. From the
shoulder to the tip of the sword was locked in place but a twist of his
arm it worked like normal armor. They could pull in their shoulder
about one inch and the arm also would lock in place. (The
strangest thing is that in both dreams and visions I keep seeing one of
these in the National Armory and they don't know what the notches are
for.
This virtual lance conserved a knight's energy and the
locked sword/arm combination could not be deflected easily. It was very
effective in battle. If
he pierced someone then the whole suit of armor would take that impact
and not just his arm. That impact often broke the arms of knights and
then they would usually lose the fight.) |
The hanged man would pass the test of being dead
and a man would tug on cat gut
tied to his legs to make them jerk. When they dropped the body after
the hanging they substituted a corpse that they then drew and quartered.
They also did another stunt when chopping off an 'agents'
head.Then they would suture into a look a like
cadaver's chest a pressurized bladder filled with red fluid which
had a tube that went up into the head. When they chopped the
dead man's head off the red water would squirt all over the place like
it should with a live man.
That was one of the main reasons that form of
execution and
then bodily defilement was used. Since dozens of
people were dying each day of natural causes in London it was easy to
locate a man with a full beard and a body that looked a lot
like Guy Fawkes (and the other two), then put them on ice for a few
weeks until the execution. This guy they substituted a dead body for.
He
(Garnet) was given a few minutes for prayer and then signalled the
hangman. He was cast off the ladder, not being bound and not making any
struggle with death. Due to intercession of the crowd, he was allowed
to hang until dead before being cut down for quartering and burning. here
The
implication is that he allowed himself to be strangled to death on the
end of the rope while his hands were untied and without moving so much as
a
twitch. Sounds like he was already dead.
The body
moves automatic when dying of suffocation no
matter how much a person may will himself not to. When a person
suffocates first the thought processes stop and then the motor parts.
Without the impediment of the thought processes the motor parts
automatically cause the body to move. It's unpreventable. It was called
the 'dance of death' in Elizabethan times but in
America the most common term is "dancing at the end of a rope." In any
case a person who dies that way can't stop those movements so if a
hanged man doesn't
'dance at the end of the rope' then he was dead long before they ever
hung
him.
You
can see
in the picture above of the executions that it was done on a high
platform
(it used to be 13 steps to the platform) that was raised about twelve
feet off the ground so Garnet could not be seen when he got down to pray. Neither was it visible when the hangman
picked
up a dead body that was next to Garnet.
The main reason for hanging, drawing and quartering
was to strike terror into foreign spies and invaders.
Nobody tried to blow up Parliament again so it seems to have worked.
There
were some others who were also government agents. Probably these
four were some of those who were supposedly 'killed' in
Staffordshire but were released and retired or sent abroad.
The
authorities caught up with the conspirators on the morning of Friday 8
November at Holbeach House near Kingswinford, in Staffordshire.
Several, including Catesby, had already been injured in an accident
trying to dry out their water-soaked gunpowder. There was a brief
shoot-out: Catesby, Thomas Percy, Christopher and Jack Wright were
killed. here
Since Guy always wore a full
beard it was easy to change his identity so he could retire safely in
the south of England. His being an English agent was never exposed
because he had supplied the English Navy with all the defense works of
the Netherlands. It was not the details of the gunpowder plot that had
to be kept secret, it was that Guy Fawkes was an English agent from the
start. If it got out that he was an English secret agent then
everything he had done for the previous 20 years would have been wasted
including all the information about the defenses of the Netherlands.
Why there was no chance
of Parliament ever getting blown up?
Once Guy
and I got involved in the conspiracy we infiltrated our own spies and
took over the conspiracy completely until only our spies were
in
contact with the gunpowder and we had manuvered all of the real plotter
away from the powder.
However without either one of us it would have been the biggest
disaster that ever happened in England.
This
man
is the first person who clearly saw the devastation that
almost
occurred. Everyone else seems to think it was a joke or not serious.
One thing that I was told is that afterwards the government tested the
gunpowder in five cannons. The gunpowder ruptured two cannons and
shattered a
third. They threw lots of the gunpowder into the river but
some of the officers took barrels of it.
By
the way all this is
from my memory. In this
life I have only read one single
paragraph about the Gunpowder Plot many years ago in my
Chatsworth
High School history class.
What did I get out of this? Did I get a medal? Did I get 1000 pounds a
year retirement? Did I get a job offer with the new King James
government? What I got was 'if other women were as perfect as she is
then we should probably get some of them to work for us.' And
after this whole thing was
over I had to change my identity again, for about the fifth time.
The ultimate irony is that had they succeeded then James's daughter
would have become queen and I would have gotten my old job back as
maid-of-honour.
Somehow I have to integrate this page with
this one (it got out of hand). When I start writing where the
memories are going to go.
*
The
memories of events start as a
trickle and if I write them down then they often start
to flood my mind and they become much clearer. Often what I recall
first is my first impression of that event (in that previous life) and
then
as I recall more I see my later impressions.
In this case I recalled first the acting and I saw it almost as if we
were part of the plot. A few hours later I realized I was only acting
the part but for two weeks more I thought Guy was not acting and was an
actual conspirator so I wrote the following .
-Guy Fawkes decided
he needed a girl on his arm to impress the others so he took me along
with him when he planned the Gunpowder
Plot
to blow up the House of Lords and left me outside the room. I was the
wrong broad
to take along. He needed a woman with cotton between her ears and
inside of them...since the door was so thin I could hear everything
they
said inside. There was and is lots of controversy over the fact that it
was
allowed to proceed and was only prevented at almost the last
minute, which was
pretty true. That was to prevent people from saying King James did it
so he could start persecutions or that they were planning to
blackmail Parliament and were not actually going to set it
off...and people still say both
of these things. It was real and what about the letter that supposedly
gave the whole thing away? It's
too obvious that it was planted to get the Catholics to cut each others
throats..and it worked. Some would say too well.-
Then
after two weeks it all came into focus at once. Only then
did I
realize that Guy was acting too and that is what you will read in the
main text. I may still add
to or subtract parts of this page as my memories get clearer about the
details.
**The project
was so important that England decided to use spies that
were experienced like Guy. Since they knew a lot more than this plot
the fact they were agents could not be exposed afterwards..
Normally we would have used different agents that were not as big a
part of our spy operations so that we could expose them
afterwards
and used their testimony in court. This plot was far too
important to use other than our best agents and then later worry about
how we were going to keep their being our agents a secret.
If we had exposed them then about 15 countries would have
known that they had been compromised. Those 15 countries would have
then rounded up all their friends and wiped out
England's entire network of spies. Also if it was known that
Guy
was a
spy then the Netherlands would have shored up all their
defenses.
That also goes for both Spain and Italy since he learned a lot
about their defenses as part of his work in the Netherlands. He learned
a weakness in about 1/4 of the main fortresses of those two countries.
He found out that in even a slight cross wind the Spanish man of wars
would tilt so much that they could not depress their cannons enough to
hit a ship with a broadside if it came in close.
Our intent was first to save Parliament and that meant we had to use
the best spies. Everything else was secondary, even our entire network
of spies and ourselves would have been sacrificed if it had been
needed. Luckily it was not.
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