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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was a failed assassination attempt
against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of
provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to
blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's
Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt
in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter,
Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of
state. The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous
letter. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on
4 November 1605, Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of
gunpowder and arrested. At the trial of the conspirators on 27
January 1606, eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were
convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
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