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Guy Fawkes is caught by Westminster authorities<\/h3>\n

Guy Fawkes has been remembered for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

The devout Catholic was caught red-handed in the basement of one of Parliament’s buildings on November 5, 1605, with a considerable amount of gunpowder.<\/p>\n

He and a group of others were planning to blow up the building and in the process kill King James I.<\/p>\n

After a tip-off from one of his group, however, the authorities were led to his whereabouts, and Fawkes was soon stopped in his tracks.<\/p>\n

After initially pleading his innocence he was deemed guilty and sentenced to death \u2014 though his demise went all but planned.<\/p>\n

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Fawkes, a former soldier who helped fight for Catholic Spain in the Eight Years’ War, acted in retaliation for James’s increased persecution of Roman Catholics.<\/p>\n

As it turned out, if Fawkes and his allies had waited, James’s son, Charles I, later flirted with the idea of Catholicism and so he may have influenced the young king \u2014 but it was never to be.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Fawkes and his seven co-conspirators were held in prison, and their trial began on January 28, 1606.<\/p>\n

Taken to Westminster Hall on the River Thames, King James and his family watched from a secret viewing booth as Fawkes pleaded not guilty, despite having admitted his guilt in the immediate aftermath of being caught.<\/p>\n

Found guilty of high treason, every member of the group was sentenced to death, bar the four who had died in a shoot-out.<\/p>\n

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