Ten Gunpowder Plot conspirators:
- Robert Wintour
- Edward Oldcorne
- Ambrose Rokewood
- John Grant
- Ralph Ashley
- Everard Digby
- Thomas Bates
- Humphrey Littleton
- Henry Garnet
- Guy Fawkes
Today, as you know, is Guy Fawkes Day, the day on which people all of Great Britain and the Commonwealth celebrate the failure of a plot by Roman Catholic restorationists to assassinate King James I and most of the aristocracy by blowing up Parliament, with the goal of installing James's daughter Elizabeth as a Catholic monarch. Nine of the ten men listed above were executed for their part in the conspiracy; Fawkes avoid execution by killing himself by leaping from the gallows as he was about to be hanged.
