[Gutenberg 25834] • It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

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This book is mainly about the treasonable plot to blow up Parliament, by

mining through to its lowest floor, or basement, from an adjacent house.

This plot was hatched by a number of Catholic gentlemen, and was quite

ingenious. These people came from a wide area of England, and numbered

about thirty. One point of interest to your reviewer is that one of the

places where they met, or retreated to when not personally involved in

mining, was a house called White Webbs, just on what is now the northern

limit of London. This house is now in use as a very nice and popular

restaurant, well known to me. It was at the time a disused hunting

lodge in Enfield Chase.