The Catholic conspirator jumped or fell from the gallows on this day in 1606, breaking his neck before the executioner could ...

The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido. I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty. You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been ...

Guy Fawkes was born in April 1570 in York ... breaking his own neck and thereby avoiding the horror of being cut down while still alive, having his testicles cut off and his stomach opened ...