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09/14/10(Tue)23:36 No.2292590  >>2292473
Hmmm, interesting, I don't get my info from wiki ever but here, just for the wiki fags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
Quote from somewhere else...
The
Jesuits were especially unwelcome in Virginia. Long ago in 1570, in
reaction to the Pope's call for the assassination of Elizabeth, they had
been declared by Parliament to be "disobedient persons" and were
banished from the realm. The Plot brought all the old fears again to the
surface. The ministers sent to Virginia by the Virginia Company
leadership were well-known as puritan-oriented -- such as Alexander
Whitaker, who baptised Pocahontas, and Richard Bucke, who opened the
1619 historic first Va General Assembly with prayer. Both Gov Thomas
Dale, who constructed the 1611 Citie of Henricus, 50 miles up river from
Jamestown, and there taught Pocahontas to read through Bible-study, and
John Rolfe, who married her, identified themselves as puritans. Papists
fleeing pressure in England proper would not have found a warm welcome
in Virginia. It is possible, of course, that some could have changed
their names and managed to stay under cover, as may be the case with a
Fox (Fawkes?) who moved to the Bahamas.
The English Civil War,
divided along Protestant Vs Catholic lines, was reflected in Virginia --
as Commonwealth Vs Old Dominion attitudes that exist still today.
Virginia's first slave laws were enacted in 1660, at the Restoration of
the Monarchy, and Jesuit complicity in the assassination of Lincoln is a
persistent notion, fueled by remembrance of the Gunpowder Plot.
One
thing is certain: the early Jamestown settlers were mightily impacted
by the Plot during its immediate years. The dearth of writings on this
provides plenty of room for some original historical research. |
