GUY FAWKES DAY . . . REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

GUY FAWKES' DAY, A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY . . .
IN 1605, GUY (GUIDO) FAWKES AND A GROUP OF CONSPIRATORS, PLANNED TO BLOW UP THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN A BID TO KILL KING JAMES VI AND THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO WERE MAKING LIFE DIFFICULT FOR THE CATHOLICS. IN ALL THERE WERE 13 CONSPIRITORS IN THE GUNPOWDER PLOT -- THEIR NAMES WERE ROBERT CATESBY, THOMAS WINTOUR, JACK WRIGHT, ROBERT KEYES, THOMAS BATES, JOHN GRANT, AMBROSE ROOKWOOD, FRANCIS TRESHAM, AND EVERARD DIGBY. ALTHOUGH ROBERT CATESBY WAS THE LEADER, GUY FAWKES BECAME THE MOST WELL KNOWN MEMBER OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AS IT WAS HE WHO WAS CAUGHT UNDER THE HOUSE OF LORDS WITH 36 BARRELS OF GUNPOWDER. FOR TWO DAYS FAWKES WAS THE ONLY SUSPECT AND HIS NAME BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH THE 'POWDER TREASON'. SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, THE REST OF THE PLOTTERS WERE EITHER CAUGHT OR GAVE THEMSELVES UP.
FOR OVER 400 YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE BURNED BONFIRES ON 5.NOVEMBER TO MARK THE FAILED GUNPOWDER PLOT. INITIALLY, THE PEOPLE OF LONDON, LIT BONFIRES TO GIVE THANKS FOR THE FACT THAT THEIR KING HAD BEEN SAVED AND SOON AFTER, EFFIGIES WERE BEING PLACED ON THE FIRES AND FIREWORKS ADDED TO THE CELEBRATION.


REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER,
THE GUNPOWDER TREASON AND PLOT,
I KNOW OF NO REASON
WHY THE GUNPOWDER TREASON
SHOULD EVER BE FORGOT.
GUY FAWKES, GUY FAWKES, T'WAS HIS INTENT
TO BLOW UP KING AND PARLI'MENT.
THREE-SCORE BARRELS OF POWDER BELOW
TO PROVE OLD ENGLAND'S OVERTHROW;
BY GOD'S PROVIDENCE HE WAS CATCH'D
WITH A DARK LANTERN AND BURNING MATCH.
HOLLOA BOYS, HOLLOA BOYS, LET THE BELLS RING.
HOLLOA BOYS, HOLLA BOYS, GOD SAVE THE KING!