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The Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to assasinate King James I of England and other members of the Aristocracy, by blowing up the Houses of Parliament on the day of the Official opening of a new parliamentary session on 5th November 1605. The Conspirators were Roman Catholics who were dissaffected by the treatment of Roman Catholics in England. The main conspirators were tried and convicted on 27th January 1606 and were executed on 30th and 31st January. The last person to be executed in connection with the plot was Henry Garnet, a Jesuit who had heard the confessions of the conspirators. Despite pleading that he had tried to dissuade the plotters from carrying out their plan, he was found gulty of conspiracy to commit treason and was hanged on 3rd May 1606.

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