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Historians on the whole have accepted the official tradition that the Gunpowder Plot was a serious attempt at a Roman Catholic coup d'etat prevented just in time by a providential accident.
Roman Catholic writers have urged objections that cannot be lightly dismissed. Mr. Donald Carswell discusses the considerations pro and contra in this volume. He presents the story of the Gunpowder Plot in a novel way that shows how much more obscure and complicated the story is than is generally supposed.