#OnThisDay in 1606, the final four conspirators of the #GunpowderPlot, including #GuyFawkes, were executed in Old Palace Yard, outside #WestminsterHall, having been convicted of high treason; all received traitors' deaths of hanging, drawing, beheading and quartering. #History

#HistoryNotes 📜 Apart from #CharlesI, 43 years earlier, #SirEverardDigby died on the scaffold on January 30. He was hanged, drawn & quartered for treason in 1606 in #StPaulsCathedral #Churchyard, as a conspirator in the #GunpowderPlot to blow up the #HouseofLords & kill #JamesI.

#OnThisDay in 1606, #GuyFawkes was executed at Westminster for the #GunpowderPlot.💣 Last to the scaffold, he avoided prolonged suffering by breaking his neck before the full sentence could be carried out. Learn more: https://t.co/jv6w52LSuk

@muffmasterh @brainbootcamp @BladeoftheS Play is set in 1517–a time when KingHenry has title of ‘Defender of the Faith’ & CatholicChurch owns 1/3 of English land—play of SirTomasMoore who was fanatical Catholic eventually martyred for loyalty to ‘1TrueChurch’ written 1592-95–GunpowderPlot not til 1605–so no, well prior

#onthisday 31 January 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Four of the conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, are executed for treason by hanging, drawing and quartering, for plotting against Parliament and King James. #gunpowderplot

#OTD in 1606, the trial of #GuyFawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.🔥 Learn more: https://t.co/jv6w52LSuk #OnThisDay #GunPowderPlot