AF's Will (whether this was true of the real one or not) had fought in the Low Countries against Parma. Anyone who'd ever been up against Parma and his terceiros, by all accounts, would have smoked his grandmother and sold her in rashers rather than encourage that sort of thing.
In historical terms "subversive" and "maverick" is too mild a term for the Essex plotters; we're talking terrorism (inept terrorism, but terrorism nonetheless). By way of example, the BBC considered in conjunction with the Institute of Physics a couple of years ago what would have happened if Guy Fawkes had succeeded. Given the timber construction of the local buildings, the amount of gunpowder used, and the scenario estimates suggested that the damage would have been equivalent in scale to the 11th September bombing - assuming, of course, that Bush, Cheney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives happened to have been in the World Trade Centre at the relevant time.
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Date: 2007-02-19 04:06 pm (UTC)In historical terms "subversive" and "maverick" is too mild a term for the Essex plotters; we're talking terrorism (inept terrorism, but terrorism nonetheless). By way of example, the BBC considered in conjunction with the Institute of Physics a couple of years ago what would have happened if Guy Fawkes had succeeded. Given the timber construction of the local buildings, the amount of gunpowder used, and the scenario estimates suggested that the damage would have been equivalent in scale to the 11th September bombing - assuming, of course, that Bush, Cheney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives happened to have been in the World Trade Centre at the relevant time.