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AI IMAGE - Portrait of Guy Fawkes in the cellar of the Palace of Westminster, 1605, (2023). Fawkes was one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, a Roman Catholic conspiracy to blow up English Houses of Parliament on 5 November 1605 when King James I was due to open a new session. The plotters were arrested after barrels of gunpowder were discovered hidden under piles of firewood. At their trial all the defendants were found guilty of high treason, and were hanged and quartered.