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Gunpowder Plot conspirators Conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot: (from left to right) Thomas Bates, Robert Winter, Christopher Wright, John Wright, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, and Thomas Winter.

Thomas Percy

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Thomas Percy (born 1560, England—died Nov. 8, 1605, Holbeach House, Staffordshire, Eng.) was a participant in the Gunpowder Plot (1605), which aimed to blow up the Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) during the state opening of Parliament, while James I and his chief ministers met within, in reprisal for increasing oppression of Roman Catholics in England. Thomas Percy was a member of the powerful Percy family, which had played a notable role in English...

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