Guy Fawkes protecting Humphrey Chetham from Catesby. From the book 'Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason. An historical romance' by William Harrison Ainsworth, with illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. Published in London, by George Routledge and sons, limited in 1841. Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who was involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

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