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Their first meeting was on 20 May 1604. Catesby was joined by his friends
Thomas Wintour, Jack Wright and Thomas Percy at the Duck and Drake, in the
Strand. The fifth person was Guy Fawkes who was originally from York. They
discussed their plan to blow up the Parliament and to kill the king on the
State opening of Parliament with the hope of having a Catholic monarch in
the throne.
They leased a small house in the heart of Westminster, Fawkes was the
caretaker, under the false name of John Johnson. Guido Guy Fawkes was an
explosives expert who had served with the Spanish Army in the Netherlands
and who supplied the gunpowder barrels.
Parliament meetings were postponed to 5 November 1605, the blow up was
planned for this day. In less than a year, the number of plotters gradually
increased to ten. Robert Keyes, Robert Wintour, John Grant, Thomas Bates (Catesby?s
servant) and Kit Wright were all relatives, by blood or marriage, to one or
more of the original five conspirators.
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