Was the Guy Fawkes incident an anti-Catholic "False Flag"?

Nevis · Jun 19, 2024

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Might the Guy Fawkes incident be an issue of Anglican history? The 1662 Book of Common Prayer has a section entitled:
Form of Prayer for the 5th Day of November. [Guy Fawkes' Day]
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1662/nov5.pdf
It includes passages like:

Also allegedly involved in the plot were a number of other Catholics including Guido "Guy" Fawkes, a veteran of the military. Fawkes was supposedly given charge of the explosives. One version of the "official" story is that he was caught in the act, just as he was lighting the fuse attached to the pile of gunpowder. At their trial on Jan. 27, 1606, eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Almost all of them had confessed after weeks of brutal torture. The Protestant ruling elite subsequently used the Gunpowder Plot to continue cracking down on the practice of Catholicism in England and foment perpetual war with England's neighbors. Additional Catholics--lay and clergy alike--were hunted down, tortured and either imprisoned or executed. Many Catholics went into hiding...
Was the plot even possible? Was it more likely that members of a government faction had set up the plot themselves using infiltrators and double agents?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gunpowder-Plot-17th-Century-False/dp/1937787265

Conspiracies: The Facts. The Theories. The Evidence.
By Andy Thomas

Thomas continues:
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very interesting theory!

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Was the Guy Fawkes incident an anti-Catholic "False Flag"?

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