The plotters put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar underneath Parliament. One of the plotters wrote to a friend in Parliament, Baron Monteagle, to warn him about the Plot. The letter reached the ...

On the night of 4 / 5 November 1605 Guy Fawkes was in the chamber. He was surrounded by 36 barrels of gunpowder and had only a few short hours to wait before King James I - and several leading ...