Early in the morning of 5 November 1605, Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar under the House of Lords with 36 barrels of gunpowder and a 'slowmatch' to ignite the explosive.
He hoped to cause an explosion that would kill James I when he attended Parliament later that day.
The plan never came to fruition, and Fawkes, like the annual population of straw-stuffed effigies, faced a painful execution.
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