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What would have happened next if the gunpowder plot had succeeded?

Kit Harington as chief plotter Robert Catesby in the BBC1 series Gunpowder. Photograph: Robert Viglaski/Kudos/BBC
Kit Harington as chief plotter Robert Catesby in the BBC1 series Gunpowder. Photograph: Robert Viglaski/Kudos/BBC Photograph: Robert Viglaski/BBC / Kudos

What would most likely have happened next had the gunpowder plot succeeded in blowing up King James and his government in 1605?

John Kearney, Tingley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

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