Guy Fawkes: Was there a Gunpowder Plot?

I was going to write something on the conspiracy theories surrounding the Gunpowder Plot, but it would seem a learned gentleman Dr M D Magee already did, in a flowing manner, and I read it with absolute confidence that he knew what he was talking about, and therefore that I did not.

Find it here: 

http://www.askwhy.co.uk/analogiesandconjectures/gunpowderplot0.php