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Guy Fawkes is caught by Westminster authorities<\/h3>\n

“Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne’er be forgot.”<\/p>\n

That is how the children’s nursery rhyme goes that marks Guy Fawkes night or Bonfire Night, often chanted as fireworks fly and bonfires gradually consume the effigy known as ‘Guy’.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows the tale of the Gunpowder Plot, a foiled attempt to assassinate King James I by a ring of English Catholics.<\/p>\n

Years of religious tensions preceded the plot. The group was led by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby whose main goal was to burn down Parliament and the King with it.<\/p>\n

Despite being a well-known story, some historians have questioned its credibility, doubting whether the true extent of the plot’s events unfolded as drastically as they have been told.<\/p>\n

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One week before the attack was planned, one of the group became nervous and sent a letter to the Catholic Lord Moteagle warning that an attack was being planned.<\/p>\n

Alterations were going on at Parliament at the time, which allowed the group to gain easy access to parts of it undetected.<\/p>\n

After receiving the letter, Parliament’s rooms were searched, and Guy Fawkes was found with gunpowder in the building’s cellar.<\/p>\n

Initially managing to convince the guards that he wasn’t a threat, a second search made it clear that he was plotting to blow the building up, and he was subsequently hanged, drawn, and quartered, dying as his neck broke while trying to escape the gallows.<\/p>\n

However, Professors Penelope Middelboe and Jon Rosebank, historian hosts of the hit podcast, History Cafe, suggest that things may have been different, with evidence for the plot “vanishingly thin”.<\/p>\n

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