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| | Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | Guy Fawkes |
 | | The group, well-connected Catholics radicalised by continued persecution under James I, hoped that by killing the king, his heir, and all the bishops and lords, they would throw England into a crisis and put a Catholic on the throne. |
 | | The leader, Robert Catesby, found a Yorkshire mercenary calling himself Guido Fawkes who had honed his skills with gunpowder while serving for the Spanish army in the Netherlands. |
 | | Fawkes worked with them, loading it at night with gunpowder from a store on the other side of the Thames, and - when the time came - planned to light the slow fuses. |
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