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Dunchurch

Near Rugby, Warwickshire

A 'hunting party' waiting for news that never came.

While Guy Fawkes guarded the gunpowder, Sir Everard Digby gathered a 'hunting party' at the Red Lion inn in Dunchurch. The plan was to seize the young Princess Elizabeth from nearby Coombe Abbey and make her queen once the king was dead.

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When
5–6 November 1605
Where
52.3370, -1.2870
Group
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Visiting

Guy Fawkes House is private, but you can see it on the village's main street.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
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Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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