The Gunpowder plot

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What did King James I do against Catholics?
In 1605 laws were passed against them, even ordered priests to leave or face execution.
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What was the response of Catholics against King James I laws?
They wanted him dead in hope for a better King or Queen.
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What happens every year in Parliament?
They opened the doors to all and normally important people go to watch.
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What was the plot?
In 1605 the Parliament was going to be opened on the 5th November and the King would be present. The plot was to blow him up and seize his young daughter Elizabeth to place her on the throne (helped by older Catholics)
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Who were the plotters?
Robert Catesby- gambler, Tom and Robert Winter, the Wright brothers (Chris and John), Thomas Percy and of course Guy Fawkes
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Why was Guy Fawkes key in the plotters?
An experienced soldier -used to handle explosives.
Responsible to lighten the explosives under Parliament
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How did King James I know not to go to Parliament?
On 26 October 1605, a mysterious letter arrived to Lord Monteagle with a warning. He passed it to Robert Cecil- king's chief advisor
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What happened in the early hours of the 5 November?
The cellars under Parliament were searched and found someone who gave John Johnson as his name and that he worked for Thomas Percy. Two days of torture in the Tower of London, and he gave his name Guido Fawkes, 2 more days, told of the blowing of Parliame
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What happened to the other plotters?
Once they realised the plot hadn't worked, they hid in Dudley (Midlands), they tried to dry some of the gunpowder, exploding and alerting the king's troops. After a shoot-out, Catesby and Percy were killed by the same bullet and the rest arrested to the T
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What was the punishment after a quick trial?
Sentenced to death: dragged through the streets of London, hanged until nearly dead, cut down, cut open, their insides pulled out and burnt on a fire. Their corpses cut into pieces and put in display around the country
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What did Guy Fawkes do during the execution?
Climbed up the scaffold steps with the hangman's noose around his neck and jumped off head first and broke his neck.
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Robert Cecil- the king's minister and advisor
He might have known about the plot and encourage it. Protestant and wanted Catholics to be unpopular
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36 barrels' location
In a cellar, rented to Thomas Percy from a friend of Robert Cecil, called John W who unexpectedly died on the 5th November
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Supplies of gunpowder-origin
In the Tower of London under guard, records from 1604 missing
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Cellar's search
Lord Monteagle took the warning letter to Robert Cecil on 26 October. Cellars not searched until at least a week later
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A Catholic visitor to London in 1604
overheard Robert Cecil's hated message against Catholics obeying foreign rulers
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Evidence of Guy Fawkes signature in the Tower of London
Maybe not his, maybe tortured
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Thomas Winter's confession
The original confession has never been seen. Evidence only of one written by Robert Cecil
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Monteagle's brother in law
Francis Tresham- not caught straight away, captured on the 12 November. Died mysteriously on the 22 December locked away in the Tower of London, possibly poisoned
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Holbeche House, Dudley
It was surrounded on the 7 November. However, Guy Fawkes was captured on the 5 November, tortured 10 days, before he gave the names and location of the plotters
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