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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...
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    of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. A tall, physically impressive man, little is known of his early...
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  • Gunpowder, Treason & Plot is a 2004 BBC miniseries based upon the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James VI of Scotland. Written by Jimmy McGovern...
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    The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of provincial English Catholics led...
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  • by Ronan Bennett, Kit Harington, and Daniel West and is based on the Gunpowder Plot in London in 1605. It stars Harington, who is a direct descendant of...
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  • The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland. Gunpowder Plot may also refer to: The...
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    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...
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    Guy Fawkes (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    member of a group of provincial English Catholics involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was born and educated in York; his father died when Fawkes...
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    Robert Catesby (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University...
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    Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...
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    or 1572 – 31 January 1606), also spelt Winter, were members of the Gunpowder Plot, a failed conspiracy to assassinate King James I. Brothers, they were...
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    Elizabeth Stuart's childhood, unbeknownst to her, part of the failed Gunpowder Plot was a scheme to replace her father with her on the throne, and forcibly...
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    member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed beneath the House of Lords. The Catholic plotters had intended...
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  • same year, dying some months later.[citation needed] Throckmorton Plot Gunpowder Plot "Brooke, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith...
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    Macbeth (section Plot)
    associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play...
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    James VI and I (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    in Scotland but faced great difficulties in England, including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and conflicts with the English Parliament. Under James, the...
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    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...
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    Holbeche House (category Gunpowder Plot)
    Staffordshire. Some members of the Gunpowder Plot were either killed or captured at Holbeche House in 1605. The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt by a small party...
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  • The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend was a British television show, hosted by Richard Hammond that recreated elements of the Gunpowder Plot in which...
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    Henry Garnet (category Executed Gunpowder Plotters)
    treason, based solely on having had advanced knowledge of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and having refused to violate the Seal of the Confessional by notifying...
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    Antonia (2005) [1996], The Gunpowder Plot, London: Phoenix, ISBN 0-7538-1401-3 Haynes, Alan (2005) [1994], The Gunpowder Plot: Faith in Rebellion, Sparkford...
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  • Reformation and the recusancy that emerged in opposition to it. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed attempt by a group of English Catholics to assassinate...
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  • Richard Walsh (English politician) (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    Gunpowder Plot. He came from Shelsley Walsh. After Guy Fawkes was captured in the basement of the Houses of Parliament, many of his fellow plotters,...
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  • have landed, and discover that they have arrived at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, where Rory is puzzled at the presence of 'Lady Winters', a mysterious...
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    of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer...
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    William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    was an English peer, best known for his role in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605 Parker was due to attend the opening of Parliament. He was...
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    serial Rebecca (1997), ITV Granada's Henry VIII (2003), BBC's Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), the 2005 BBC miniseries The Virgin Queen (2005) and the...
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    Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (category People associated with the Gunpowder Plot)
    the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Robert Cecil remains a controversial historic figure as it is still debated at what point he first learned of the plot and...
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  • Gunpowder Milkshake is a 2021 action thriller film directed by Navot Papushado, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ehud Lavski. The film stars Karen Gillan...
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    involved on opposite sides of the Gunpowder Plot (1605). He claims a family connection with the leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, on his mother's side...
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