Everard Digby
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Sir Everard Digby was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household and married a Protestant, Di
Portrait of Digby
Guy Fawkes House, formerly known as the Red Lion, where Digby was installed on 4 November 1605
Print of members of the Gunpowder Plot being hanged, drawn and quartered
Gunpowder Plot
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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of Englan
A late 17th- or early 18th-century report of the plot
Elizabeth I, queen from 1558 to 1603
King James's daughter Elizabeth, whom the conspirators planned to install on the throne as a Catholic queen; portrait by Robert Peake the Elder, National Maritime Museum
Engraving of eight of the thirteen conspirators, by Crispijn van de Passe. Missing are Digby, Keyes, Rookwood, Grant, and Tresham.