Post by [Aeria-Gloris] on Oct 15, 2004 5:34:31 GMT -5
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason,
Should ever be forgot.
On the fifth on November and the surrounding nights, England will go mental. See, a few hundred years ago, a group of catholic rebels had had enough with being persecuted by the newly formed church of England that wouldn’t let them worship in their own way. It all started with Henry VIII. This was an extremely randy man who’s tackle was unfortunately out of order. As a result, he could not have a child (more importantly, a son) by his first wife, so he blamed his wife for this and wanted a divorce. Unfortunately, (at that time Catholic) England would not allow him to do this so he broke off all connections with the pope and set up is own religion for himself and the rest of the country called ‘the church of England’.
Henry went on to divorce, execute and murder a good few more wives before he ‘snuffed it’ leaving his sickly son in power, who went on to die at a young age leaving Elizabeth (Henry’s daughter to a different mother) to rule. Elizabeth is now thought by many to be our greatest ever queen.
Anyway, I digress slightly. I’m ranting because its 10 in the morning while I write this and im supping Champaign from a tea mug because my boss won it as a prize last night. Slightly squiffy right now but I shall continue with the Fawkes stuff regardless.
So the English Catholics are much aggrieved with the situation. They didn’t like to have to hide their priests and worship in secret so they decided to do something drastic. They decided to blow up Parliament.
The Rebels got their heads together and decided that Guy Fawkes was the right man for the job. Now recently, it was revealed that selecting Fawkes for the job was a very cruel thing to do. Fawkes was actually mentally disabeled and was easily coerced by his fellows to do their bidding.
So then it came about that Fawkes was discovered on November 5th, loading barrels and barrels of gunpowder into the celler of the Houses of Parliament. Once he was captured, he took the full brunt of the charges of treason while his comrades got away.
Fawkes was hung, drawn and quartered. Hung by his neck until almost dead, cut down and gutted (drawn) while he was still alive, then penultimately, he had his arms and legs chopped off (quartered (still alive)) before being burned at the stake. I would hope that he died at that point!
What an awful and horrible thing to celebrate eh??
Still, every Nov 5th, people get together and burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes on the bonfire and enjoy the wholesome act of setting off explosives in the form of fireworks. Its always one of the best nights of the year to me. Iv got great memories of standing in front of bonfires, burning on my front and freezing on my back. Eating hotpot and chewing treacle toffee, trying to get the attention of the girl stood on the other side of bonfires impenetrable radius. Eee, happy days.
I’m positive that it was from bonfire night that Tolkein took his inspiration for the party at the beginning of the trilogy.
your turn to talk now, iv done much more than enough!
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason,
Should ever be forgot.
On the fifth on November and the surrounding nights, England will go mental. See, a few hundred years ago, a group of catholic rebels had had enough with being persecuted by the newly formed church of England that wouldn’t let them worship in their own way. It all started with Henry VIII. This was an extremely randy man who’s tackle was unfortunately out of order. As a result, he could not have a child (more importantly, a son) by his first wife, so he blamed his wife for this and wanted a divorce. Unfortunately, (at that time Catholic) England would not allow him to do this so he broke off all connections with the pope and set up is own religion for himself and the rest of the country called ‘the church of England’.
Henry went on to divorce, execute and murder a good few more wives before he ‘snuffed it’ leaving his sickly son in power, who went on to die at a young age leaving Elizabeth (Henry’s daughter to a different mother) to rule. Elizabeth is now thought by many to be our greatest ever queen.
Anyway, I digress slightly. I’m ranting because its 10 in the morning while I write this and im supping Champaign from a tea mug because my boss won it as a prize last night. Slightly squiffy right now but I shall continue with the Fawkes stuff regardless.
So the English Catholics are much aggrieved with the situation. They didn’t like to have to hide their priests and worship in secret so they decided to do something drastic. They decided to blow up Parliament.
The Rebels got their heads together and decided that Guy Fawkes was the right man for the job. Now recently, it was revealed that selecting Fawkes for the job was a very cruel thing to do. Fawkes was actually mentally disabeled and was easily coerced by his fellows to do their bidding.
So then it came about that Fawkes was discovered on November 5th, loading barrels and barrels of gunpowder into the celler of the Houses of Parliament. Once he was captured, he took the full brunt of the charges of treason while his comrades got away.
Fawkes was hung, drawn and quartered. Hung by his neck until almost dead, cut down and gutted (drawn) while he was still alive, then penultimately, he had his arms and legs chopped off (quartered (still alive)) before being burned at the stake. I would hope that he died at that point!
What an awful and horrible thing to celebrate eh??
Still, every Nov 5th, people get together and burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes on the bonfire and enjoy the wholesome act of setting off explosives in the form of fireworks. Its always one of the best nights of the year to me. Iv got great memories of standing in front of bonfires, burning on my front and freezing on my back. Eating hotpot and chewing treacle toffee, trying to get the attention of the girl stood on the other side of bonfires impenetrable radius. Eee, happy days.
I’m positive that it was from bonfire night that Tolkein took his inspiration for the party at the beginning of the trilogy.
your turn to talk now, iv done much more than enough!