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#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

#27 'Hellish miners' - Ep 4 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot

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 To avoid any possible blame for the plot falling on himself or the king, Cecil procures confessions saying the seven gentlemen plotters began excavating a tunnel under the House of Lords long before the government stepped up its anti-Catholic legislation. They apparently lived on site, in an upstairs room, seven to a bed. They dug unnoticed, only in the day (or was it only in the night?) for almost a year, before spying a handy cellar next door for the gunpowder barrels. Yes. Of course. (R)

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