{"id":543,"date":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/11\/27\/the-gunpowderplot-guy-fawkes-night\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:32:59","slug":"the-gunpowderplot-guy-fawkes-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/the-gunpowderplot-guy-fawkes-night.html","title":{"rendered":"The Gunpowder\nPlot: Guy Fawkes Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in the UK, we’ve just had our traditional bonfire night, on
\nNovember 5th<\/sup>, to celebrate the foiling of the
\nGunpowder Plot. We’ve been doing this off and on, barring wars, since
\n1605. Each year either on November 5, or the weekend closest, people get
\ntogether all over the UK to light bonfires, burn effigies of “guys”,
\nand set off fireworks. Increasingly, people go to public organised bonfires,
\nrather than have one in their back garden, as the public display fireworks are
\nfar more spectacular than anything one could put on at home. We are talking
\namazing pyrotechnic displays!<\/p>\n

But what is it all about?<\/i><\/b> The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to
\nkill the anti-Catholic King James I, King of England. The alleged perpetrators
\nwere a group of four Catholic aristocrats and Guy Fawkes who was a soldier.
\nTheir plan was to lay barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of the Parliament
\nBuildings to be ignited the following day, on 5th<\/sup>
\nNovember when King James, his eldest son, Prince Henry, and Queen Ann were to
\nattend the opening of Parliament. The aim of the conspirators was, once the
\nking and his family had been assassinated, to propose someone else who was more
\nsympathetic to the Catholics in the UK.<\/p>\n

So how did they set about this?<\/i><\/b> The first attempt at
\ntunnelling into the cellars of the Parliament from nearby lodgings failed as
\nwater from the River Thames waterlogged the tunnel. Instead, one of the gang
\nused his influence to gain access to cellars beneath Parliament, and somehow,
\nthey managed to smuggle in 36 barrels of gunpowder. However, there were
\nproblems: the King kept postponing the opening of Parliament, so he was never
\naround to blow up, and secondly, because of the time delay, the gunpowder was
\ngoing mouldy, and more had to be bought from overseas, to ensure that it would
\nexplode.<\/p>\n

So what happened next?<\/i><\/b> Just before the big day, someone sent a
\nletter to Lord Monteagle a former Catholic sympathiser, warning him to stay
\naway from the opening of Parliament on November 5th<\/sup>.
\nLord M immediately passed the letter to Robert Cecil, the King’s Chief
\nSecretary, and even though the gang of five knew about the letter's
\nexistence , and that they had possibly been rumbled, they still went ahead with
\ntheir plans. Guy Fawkes, a soldier, was volunteered to stay overnight in the
\ncellar with the gunpowder and set light to it at the right moment. On the night
\nof 4th<\/sup> November, after a thorough search of
\nParliament, Guy Fawkes was found hidden, along with the gunpowder in the
\ncellars. He was tortured and the other members of the gang were found and along
\nwith Guy Fawkes were tried and sentenced to death in St. Paul's churchyard
\nin January 1606. Later, four of the conspirators were executed at the Old
\nPalace Yard, Westminster. All eight men eventually identified as being part of
\nthe plot were hung, drawn, and quartered, the standard punishment for those
\nconvicted of treason.<\/p>\n

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