3. TIL On 5th November families, schools and communities across the UK burn an effi...

TIL On 5th November families, schools and communities across the UK burn an effigy of a man who tried to start an insurrection.

He got found out because he literally wrote a letter to a friend telling him the plan.

  1. The letter you are referring to was not considered to be a authored by Fawkes and is of dubious origin.

Was he losing popularity, what were the opinion polls saying? Were the Catholics going to win the mid terms?

  1. Failing to win over the protestants could have cost James his head, as happened to his mother and later happen to his son. Maybe you can call that "mid-terms". It was an incredibly religiously turbulent time, the prospect of a violent uprising was ripe. James had only held the English crown for a short time, overseen an unpopular settlement to the war with Catholic Spain, and was notoriously fearful of assassination attempts - namely because he had already been the subject of a few.
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