The project of a few Roman Catholics to destroy James I. with
the Lords and Commons assembled in the Houses of Parliament, on the 5th
of November, 1605. It was to be done by means of gunpowder when the
king went in person to open Parliament. Robert Catesby originated the
plot, and Guy Fawkes undertook to fire the gunpowder. (See
Dynamite Saturday.)
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