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The Great Hall, Winchester

Winchester, Hampshire

Where Sir Walter Raleigh was tried for plotting against the new king.

In 1603, James I's first year as king of England, two plots against him were uncovered: the Main Plot and the Bye Plot. Plague was raging in London, so the trials were held here in Winchester's Great Hall.

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When
November 1603
Where
51.0627, -1.3195
Group
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Open daily with free entry. King Arthur's Round Table hangs on the wall.

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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