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How Guy Fawkes, Figurehead of the Gunpowder Plot, Avoided the Full Horrors of Execution by Hanging, Drawing and Quartering
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...
BBC11d
The Gunpowder Plot
The 'Gunpowder Plot' was foiled at the eleventh hour ... men in the land as they sat in the room above. The 'Monteagle Letter' betrays the plotters As the plot neared fruition, something happened ...
BBC11d
The Gunpowder Plot
The plotters put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar underneath Parliament. One of the plotters wrote to a friend in Parliament, Baron Monteagle, to warn him about the Plot. The letter reached the ...
PBS22d
The Gunpowder Plot
That letter was passed on to the authorities ... yet I think it's the journey to extremism that's worth remembering. The Gunpowder Plot happened at a time of deep divisions and high stakes.