The foiling of the Gunpowder Plot initiates…
November 1605 CE
The foiling of the Gunpowder Plot initiates a wave of national relief at the delivery of the King and his sons, and inspires in the ensuing parliament a mood of loyalty and goodwill, which Salisbury astutely exploits to extract higher subsidies for the King than any (bar one) granted in Elizabeth's reign.
Walter Raleigh, languishing in the Tower due to his involvement in the Main Plot, and whose wife is a first cousin of Lady Catesby, declares he had had no knowledge of the conspiracy.
The Bishop of Rochester gives a sermon at St. Paul's Cross, in which he condemns the plot.
In his speech to both Houses on November 9, James expounds on two emerging preoccupations of his monarchy: the Divine Right of Kings and the Catholic question.
He insists that the plot had been the work of only a few Catholics, not of the English Catholics as a whole, and he reminds the assembly to rejoice at his survival, since kings are divinely appointed and he owes his escape to a miracle.
Salisbury writes to his English ambassadors abroad, informing them of what had occurred, and also reminding them that the King bears no ill will to his Catholic neighbors.
The foreign powers largely distance themselves from the plotters, calling them atheists and Protestant heretics.
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