The Gunpowder Conspiracy of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt by a group of provincial English Catholics against King James I of England and VI of Scotland. The plot intended to kill the king, his family and most of the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the Houses of Parliament.
On hearing of the failure of the plot, the conspirators fled towards Worcester but heavy rain slowed their travels. Many of them were caught when they arrived in Stourbridge. The remaining men attempted a revolt in the Midlands and this failed with a shoot-out resulting in the capture of several principal conspirators. They were tried on January 27, 1606 in Westminster Hall. The trial lasted one day and ranked highly as a public spectacle.
Four of the plotters were executed in St. Paul’s Churchyard on January 30. A number of others implicated in the conspiracy were taken to Old Palace Yard in Westminster, in front of the scene of the intended crime, where they were to be hanged, drawn and quartered. Guy Fawkes cheated the executioners: when he was to be hanged until almost dead, he jumped from the gallows, so his neck broke and he died, thus avoiding the gruesome later part of this form of execution.
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