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T<\/span>oday in 1605, a cabal of Catholic plotters, hoping to turn back the tides of reformation and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne of Great Britain, attempted to assassinate the very Protestant King James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their plan – if you can dignify it by calling it a plan – was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was to be followed by a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James’s nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth<\/a>, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. This has come to be known as the Gunpowder Plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plotters were led by Robert Catesby, an Oxford-educated aristocrat whose parents had suffered years of imprisonment for the crime of being Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most famous of the plotters was, undoubtedly, Guy Fawkes, a soldier with 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands, whose job it was to set off the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plotters were sold out through an anonymous letter sent warning of the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fawkes was arrested in the basement with 36 barrels of gunpowder. The rest of the plotters fled and, after a brief fire-fight during which Robert Catesby was killed, they were captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight of the survivors, including Fawkes, were convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that was the end of Catholic attempts to restore the Catholic monarchy in Great Britain. The day is celebrated now with bonfires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the story in the words of the old (very anti-Catholic) poem celebrating the defeat of Guy Fawkes and his conspiracy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England’s overthrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But, by God’s providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James’s sake!
If you won’t give me one,
I’ll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn’orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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