Gunpowder Plot
a plot, formed laws directed against their faith and its rank, goaded into excitement by the penal laws directed against their faith and its aim was to blow up the House of Parliament by gunpowder Nov. 5, 1605, and destroy king, lords, and commons by one having led to the discovery of the plot, various conspirators were executed Jan. 30 and 31, 1606, and one May 3 following. ous warning, sent to Lord Monteagle, Among those put to death was Guy Fawkes, who had been caught in the vault below the House of Lords with Fawkes, who had been caught in the Among those put to death was Guy ready to fire the train. Since 1605 all and Commons where explosives could be places connected with the House of Lords the opening of Parliament. stowed away are annually searched at