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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Roman Catholics, led by Robert Catesby, who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
John (Jack) Wright (January 1568 – 8 November 1605), and Christopher (Kit) Wright (1570? – 8 November 1605), were members of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. Their sister married another plotter, Thomas Percy.
John Grant (c. 1570 – 30 January 1606) was a member of the failed Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I of England with a Catholic monarch. Grant was born around 1570, and lived at Norbrook in Warwickshire. He married the sister of another plotter, Thomas Wintour.
Fawkes was one of 13 conspirators, but he is the individual most associated with the plot. [ 61 ] In Britain, 5 November has variously been called Guy Fawkes Night , Guy Fawkes Day, Plot Night, [ 62 ] and Bonfire Night (which can be traced directly back to the original celebration of 5 November 1605). [ 63 ]
The house where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched was the "perfect place" for the conspirators to meet, according to historian and TV presenter Lucy Worsley. For her latest BBC Two series, Lucy ...
Francis Tresham (c. 1567 – 23 December 1605) was a member of the group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I of England. Tresham joined the Earl of Essex's failed rebellion against the government in 1601, for which he was imprisoned.
Print of members of the Gunpowder Plot being hanged, drawn, and quartered The trial of the eight surviving conspirators began on Monday 27 January. The two brothers were brought with the other plotters by barge from the Tower (Catebsy's servant, Thomas Bates , arrived from the Gatehouse Prison ), to Whitehall .
Thomas subsequently aided Essex in a conspiracy against the Scottish warden of the middle marches, [5] although unlike several others who later joined the Gunpowder Plot, he was not a member of the earl's failed rebellion of 1601. Percy was a tall, physically impressive man, "of serious expression but with an attractive manner". [13]