The Gunpowder Plot – 1605

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Two years after taking the throne a group of disaffected English Catholics led by Robert Catesby attempted to assassinate James and the leading Protestant nobles by blowing up the Houses of Parliament. The plot failed and the conspirators were executed. Video: A history of Scotland: Project Britain.

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