Remember, remember, the 8th of November, chief Robert Catesby was shot. Recusant Catholic Robert Catesby's 'Gunpowder Plot' to blow up the House of Lords with James I in it all came crashing down on this day 413 years ago, aged 33. Three of his six compatriots, John & Christoper Wright and Thomas Percy, were killed the same day. The other three, Thomas & Robert Wintour and Guy Fawkes, were tried and executed a couple of months later.