Thomas Percy also now joined ... yet I think it's the journey to extremism that's worth remembering. The Gunpowder Plot happened at a time of deep divisions and high stakes.
He devised the Gunpowder Plot in 1604, recruiting the rest of ... A member of an aristocratic family, Thomas Percy had been involved in talks with King James on Catholicism in England.
The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...