[MarkWar]

>David Maltby's book, "The Black Legend," is a pretty good dissection of British anti-Catholic propaganda. C. Northcote Parkinson, inventor of Parkinson's Law, wrote a pretty unbiased book on the Gunpowder Plot.

Thanks for the refs. I'll be honest -- until I read this book on Macbeth, I'd never heard of the "Gunpowder Treason" (although I was born on November 5!).

It seems like a VERY interesting bit of history, and I intend to learn more about it. (I'm especially intrigued about the way King James sets up England as a defender of Christianity against oppressive Romish stuff, yet if I remember history right, the Dissenters were just a generation or two away from abandoning England in a huff because of what they saw as its anti-Christian ways...)

Mark W.

[Hal.009]

"Penny for the Guy?"

"Remember, remember the fifth of November.
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gun powder and treason,
should ever be forgot"