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The Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes interrogated by James I and his council in the king's bedchamber,Whitehall. Guy Fawkes, 1570 1606, aka Guido Fawkes, member of a group of provincial English Catholics who took part in The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, aka Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland. The plot was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605. From The History of Progress in Great Britain, published 1866.