What if Guy Fawkes was a Puritan?

What if instead of converting to Catholicism like IOTL, Guy Fawkes, the lead conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, instead converted to Protestantism, the Puritan variety that is? How would the Gunpowder Plot, if it does happen at all due to butterflies, would play out if lead by a Puritan Fawkes?
 
What if instead of converting to Catholicism like IOTL, Guy Fawkes, the lead conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, instead converted to Protestantism, the Puritan variety that is? How would the Gunpowder Plot, if it does happen at all due to butterflies, would play out if lead by a Puritan Fawkes?

His plot is uncovered when he takes the Puritan name Joseph Parliament-Are-Sinners-And-I-Shall-Blast-Thee-To-Hell Fawkes.
 
Not sure why a Puritan would do this. They were not entirely happy with the Elizabethan settlement but there was a new king (James I) who had Calvinist views (though he disliked Presbyterian church organization).
 
What if instead of converting to Catholicism like IOTL, Guy Fawkes, the lead conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, instead converted to Protestantism, the Puritan variety that is? How would the Gunpowder Plot, if it does happen at all due to butterflies, would play out if lead by a Puritan Fawkes?

Fawkes was the most notorious plotter chiefly because he was the one caught trying to blow up the gunpowder, but the actual head of the plot was Robert Catesby. So a Gunpowder Plot without Fawkes would be much the same as IOTL, but with someone else tasked with lighting the match.

Of course, what would be fun is if our Puritan Guy Fawkes also decides to blow up Parliament at the State Opening. I wonder if the two groups of plotters would discover each other, and if so, what they would do? I can't imagine either being in sympathy with the other group's aims, for all that they both hated James. Maybe one group would dob the other in to try and get in the King's good books and convince him to show more tolerance ("See, your Majesty, we just saved your life from those evil Papists/Puritans, clearly we aren't disloyal or subversive so there's no need to persecute us") or to draw away suspicion from their own plot ("Those scores of gunpowder barrels I'm storing under Parliament? Make no notice of them, your Majesty; after all, if I wanted you blown up, I wouldn't have uncovered that plot to you, would I?").
 
And just like that this thread was about to be derailed...
I am sure Puritans would be hated and feared in England by Anglicans. Maybe they would not be allowed to settle in the colonies and would instead be "encouraged" to emigrate and settle elsewhere in Europe.
I am not sure if this would change much in England itself.
 
And just like that this thread was about to be derailed...
I am sure Puritans would be hated and feared in England by Anglicans. Maybe they would not be allowed to settle in the colonies and would instead be "encouraged" to emigrate and settle elsewhere in Europe.
I am not sure if this would change much in England itself.

Might have an effect down the line: assuming Charles I and his religious policies aren't butterflied away, fewer Puritans would mean less resistance to him, and hence potentially either no Civil War or a Civil War that Charles wins.
 
Fawkes was the most notorious plotter chiefly because he was the one caught trying to blow up the gunpowder, but the actual head of the plot was Robert Catesby. So a Gunpowder Plot without Fawkes would be much the same as IOTL, but with someone else tasked with lighting the match.

Of course, what would be fun is if our Puritan Guy Fawkes also decides to blow up Parliament at the State Opening. I wonder if the two groups of plotters would discover each other, and if so, what they would do? I can't imagine either being in sympathy with the other group's aims, for all that they both hated James. Maybe one group would dob the other in to try and get in the King's good books and convince him to show more tolerance ("See, your Majesty, we just saved your life from those evil Papists/Puritans, clearly we aren't disloyal or subversive so there's no need to persecute us") or to draw away suspicion from their own plot ("Those scores of gunpowder barrels I'm storing under Parliament? Make no notice of them, your Majesty; after all, if I wanted you blown up, I wouldn't have uncovered that plot to you, would I?").
Nah, they would probably just reenact that famous scene in the palace in Life of Brian.
 
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