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163. Rhino Borked Guy

The Allusionist

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Guy Fawkes and the Montical Letter

Guy Fawkes was tortured in the Tower. He'd started naming loads of names and spilling the beans. While Guy Fawkes was being tortured, other plotters were already nowhere near. When word got around about the Montical letter, they had fled London and were hiding 130 miles away. They called themselves up in this house called Holbych House in Staffordshire. And they were driving from gunpowder by the fire. It exploded in a really ironical way. A lot of them went, oh, gosh, that's divine intervention. But the authorities caught up with them. The surviving plotters were taken to the Tower of London. At the end of January 1606, they

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