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  2. Guy Fawkes - Wikipedia

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    Fawkes was baptised on 16 April 1570 at the church of St Michael le Belfrey, York, next to York Minster (seen at left).. Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York.He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, [b] and his wife, Edith.

  3. Gunpowder Plot - Wikipedia

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    Fawkes visited Keyes, and was given a pocket watch left by Percy, to time the fuse, and an hour later Rookwood received several engraved swords from a local cutler. [93] The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot and the Taking of Guy Fawkes (c. 1823) by Henry Perronet Briggs. The lantern which Guy Fawkes used during the plot.

  4. Guy Fawkes Night - Wikipedia

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    Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy ... Following Charles I's execution in 1649, the country's new republican regime remained undecided on how to treat 5 November.

  5. Guy Fawkes Night: What those fireworks and bonfires are ... - AOL

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    Guy Fawkes, sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was one of several men arrested for attempting to blow up London’s Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605.

  6. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The spiked heads of executed criminals once adorned the gatehouse of the medieval London Bridge. A liuely Representation of the manner how his late Majesty was beheaded uppon the Scaffold Ian 30: 1648; A representation of the execution of the King's Judges. In the top pane, Charles I is shown awaiting his execution. In the bottom pane, one ...

  7. List of people hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    Guy Fawkes For involvement in Gunpowder Plot , but he managed to cheat the executioner by jumping from the scaffold while his head was in the noose, breaking his neck. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] His lifeless body was nevertheless drawn and quartered, [ 30 ] [ 31 ] and his body parts distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom".

  8. Portal:Holidays/Selected biography/6 - Wikipedia

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    Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes was an English military man and member of a group of Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.

  9. Guy Fawkes (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The story of Guy Fawkes starts in summer 1605, when a plot to blow up Parliament was underway. The first book of the story begins with the execution of Catholic priests in Manchester. During the execution, Elizabeth Orton madly raves before being chased by an officer overseeing the execution. To avoid capture, she leaps into the River Irwell ...