The traditional rhyme goes “Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot”. Over four hundred years ago a man called Guy Fawkes and a group of co-conspirators hatched a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. “The Gunpowder Plot”, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason […]
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Executed at High Green
“The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up […]
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