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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: streets by day and night; the trained bands were ready to fall in
at a moment's notice; preparations were made for barricading the
principal thoroughfares; the city gates were kept closed so that
admission could be only had through the wickets; and the Houses
of Parliament demanded a guard should keep watch on the vaults
over which they sat, lest imitators of Guy Fawkes might blow them
to pieces. Moreover, it was not alone the safety of the
multitude, but the protection of the individual which was sought
to be secured. In the dark confusion which general terror
produced, each man felt he might be singled out as the next
victim of this diabolical plot, and therefore devised means to
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