In a gruesome turn-ofevents, two people from the house were tortured and killed for harbouring and aiding Catholic priests and it is thought it was this practice that led Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes to come up with the
Gunpowder Plot.
'I'M PULLING OUT FINGERNAILS' You can't tell the story of the
Gunpowder Plot and skim over the grisly ends the plotters met once they were caught.
As well as acting as executive producer, Kit is actually playing his ancestor, Robert Catesby, who was the real mastermind behind the
gunpowder plot, despite the fact that Guy Fawkes is better known.
We think we know everything about the
Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes trying to blow up Parliament, right?
The Beeb is teasing viewers with a trailer where Kit Harington as Robert Catesby talks inside a gloomy dungeon, setting the scene of the
Gunpowder plot that is now commemorated as 'Bonfire Night'.
And it was the converted Catholic, Thomas Percy, born around 1563, and Constable of Alnwick Castle, who was one of the principal architects of the
Gunpowder Plot.
While most people know Fawkes was a Catholic who conspired to blow up the Protestant-run House of Parliament in 1605 --and England's King James I-- there is much more to the
Gunpowder Plot. To find out some lesser known facts about Fawkes, continue reading below, courtesy of (http://www.history.com/news/guy-fawkes-day-a-brief-history) History.com , (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/11209784/9-things-you-never-knew-about-Guy-Fawkes.html) the Telegraph and (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/anonymous-how-the-guy-fawkes-mask-became-an-icon-of-the-protest-movement-a6720831.html) the Independent.
It's called the
Gunpowder Plot, |and bonfires are lit to burn the "Guy" - a 'dummy' that represents Fawkes.
| You can find more safety |advice on the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents website - www.rospa.com THE
GUNPOWDER PLOT W | | WE CELEBRATE Bonfire Night on November 5 because it is the anniversary of an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605, a plot which Guy (Guido) Fawkes was part of.
1606: Guy Fawkes, chief conspirator in the
Gunpowder Plot, was hung, drawn and quartered.
How many times does a sheet of paper Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Charlie Chaplin; 2 The wrist; 3 Three; 4 Cribbage; 5 Twelfth Night; 6 Hoagy Carmichael; 7 Wembley Stadium; 8 Alfred Dreyfus; 9 The Simpsons; 10 The
Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
1606: Guy Fawkes, a leading conspirator in the
Gunpowder Plot, was hung, drawn and quartered.
Richard Dutton, Ben Jonson, Volpone, and the
Gunpowder Plot, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp.
The enigma of
Gunpowder Plot, 1605; the third solution.
