The Gunpowder Rebellion, 1605

by Folger Shakespeare Library

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The Gunpowder Rebellion, 1605

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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Print is divided into six frames. Above, the Gunpowder Plot conspirators are together in discussion in one frame, each man labeled Bates, Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy, Guido Fawkes, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter. They are flanked on either side by frames filled with German verse. Below left, three of them are shown being dragged to execution. Below center, one of the conspirators after being executed, his head on the ground, and another man taking his heart out of his open chest cavity. Below right, all eight men's heads on pikes. Text in Latin and French is inscribed in plate beneath lower images. Engraved by by Crispijn van de Passe, 1606. The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on November 5th, 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's 9 year old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. His fellow plotters were John Wright, Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, Robert Wintour, Christopher Wright, John Grant, Sir Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives.

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