The plotters and their plan The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, as it became known, was the brainchild of Robert Catesby, a well-to-do gentleman of Warwickshire. Together with Guy Fawkes and three other ...

So, this is the world of my ancestor’s story – the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. A plot is a secret plan. Here, look – shhhh! These men are plotters. They think nobody can hear.