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On the 5th November we began our Parliament, to which the King should have come in person but refrained, through a practice but that morning discovered. The plot was to have blown up the King†at oneinstanttohaveruinedthewhole estateand kingdom of England.

-Hoby, Sir Edward
  Letter to the British  Ambassador to Brussels, describing the Gunpowder Plot,19 Nov.

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