A Not-Good-To-Live-In Country...England

While reading ch. 6 of God's Secretaries, I noticed that culture in those times was totally different as it is now. Here you can see how we humans change through time. In the book, people believe a lot in God and they are forced to believe that the King (James) was sent there by God, that he has all the powers and good traits everyone wisher for. When the plotters planned an attack, and the King nearly died, William Barlow went to preach at St. Paul's. He said "The enemy from below was satanic in its wickedness, the king, their hoped-for victim, an unqualifiedly good man, the archetype of the good man, virtuallya Christ figure...". It is obvious that these people just said that to 'score points' with the King, and in this way he could give them money, land or at least not be thought part of the plot against the King.

Also, I noticed that the punishments in these times were severely harsh. Torture was still legal, and they used it very frequently. It was said that more than 70 thieves were tortured and killed per year. They tortured Guy Fawkes for something he didn't do, puting him in a machie that tied his hands and feet to the edges of a bed and they started to pull on these ropes, and if he didn't confess( in this case, he had nothing to confess), he would eventually rip. Also, when they caught Henry Garnet, the 'master plotter', he was put to more severe tortures. He was dragged by the streets of London, then he was interviewed by two of the Translators, and his original punishment was to be castrated, his parts burned in front of him, then his head cut off and he himself be cut into pieces to be fed to the birds. They changed it and he was killed before castrated. But still, it was a harsh penalization.

As a conclusion, I think that it is sometimes better to think at what they did to bad people in those times. Nowadays, you only get jail, before, you were killed if you were lucky. I guess you should just never be bad.