Was Guy Fawkes Framed?

Guy Fawkes day/November the fifth is celebrated year after year some do not know the story behind it. Or that it may be wrongly named. As Guy Fawkes may not have had anything to do with the plot. The story starts with James I and religion. When James took the throne religion was still a very complicated matter. James was protestant and forced all the Roman Catholic priests to leave England. This made a small group of Catholics pretty angry and they decided that James should die. Guy Fawkes was part of this group. They decided that they were going to blow James up when he attended parliament. They intended to place the gunpowder in the cellar under parliament. Guy Fawkes was involved in the lighting of the gunpowder, a dangerous job. The plot started to take a fall when a man called lord Monteagle received a letter warning one of the members of government to stay away from Parliament. Historians suggest that the King's officials already knew about the plot, that one of the plotters in fact revealed the key points of the plot to the authorities the suspected man to have written the letter was Francis Tresham. Lord Monteagle showed the letter to Robert Cecil who showed the letter to the king. The king ordered a search of the commons and on November the fifth Guy Fawkes was found in the cellar red handed preparing to light the gunpowder. King James was one angry man and demanded all the names of the people who were involved in the plot. But Guy Fawkes was a very brave man and refused to give any names. So the king sent him to be tortured and after days of countless torture Guy Fawkes eventually spoke and gave all the names. The other plotter were found then killed. Also there was a story going around that there was a tunnel that the plotters have dug to parliament but this was never found. There are four reasons why people think that Guy Fawkes was framed for the gunpowder. This is because the only person that can order gunpowder was Lord Cecil. The records for the obtaining of the gunpowder was destroyed and never found, suggesting that lord Cecil was involved in the plot. So how did the conspirators get hold of 36 barrels of gunpowder without drawing attention to them? Did they get help from someone from the government? How was the gunpowder moved across London from the Tower of London to Westminster (at least two miles distant) without anyone seeing it? The River Thames would not have been used as it could have led to the gunpowder becoming damp and useless. There also was the mysterious letter sent to Lord Monteagle. In modern English the letter stated that Parliament would receive a terrible blow on that day and that those killed would not see who had done it to them. The letter was addressed to lord Monteagle but his servant read it out aloud. Why? Because he needed a witness that he received this letter? The person who sent the letter was supposedly Francis Tresham. He was seen with Robert Cecil on November the fifth either being in both the government and the plotters, working with Cecil AND the plotters or a mere coincidence maybe? There was one more thing that could have proved Guy Fawkes innocent one of those was about Tresham (the man who wrote the letter to lord Monteagle, cousin). Once arrested, he was locked in the Tower of London Englands most feared and secure prison. Tresham was locked in a cell by himself. He died on December 23rd 1605, and he was found to have been poisoned. How did he get the poison? Lord Cecil might have sent it? After all, he and Monteagle were the heroes of the day. Although all the above was said there is still something we cannot deny and that is that Guy Fawkes was found in the cellar ready to blow up parliament he was caught red handed it was also Fawkess job to arrange the gunpowder whether he played a minor role or a big role he was still as guilty as the rest. Guy Fawkes met up with the fellow conspirators and agreed to the plot, how could he be framed? Guy Fawkes was probably the bravest man there and offered to do the most dangerous task of lighting the powder. After many days of torture Guy Fawkes gave up the name of his fellow plotters. If he was framed would he have not revealed the information earlier saving him from some of the most gruelling punishments from the seventeenth century. Guy Fawkes was prepared to die for his religion and also was a fundamental asset to the whole scheme surely he could not have been framed. There are some who support the government conspiracy line others think it may simply have been an ambitious plan by a small number of Catholics that went very badly wrong for them all. But in my opinion I agree with the fact that Guy Fawkes was set-up him and his fellow plotters were set up by Cecil, who as we all know was a sneaky man. SaiefQ