In the last part of our tale, we find Guy Fawkes, the brave Yorkshire man and experienced miner and sapper soldier, being questioned by the King, having been interrupted in his work of blowing up Parliament. The others are rushing north to the Midlands and preparing...
"Hanged, Drawn and Quartered..." Only eight of the original Plot survived. On a cold Monday, January 27, 1606, all the prisoners were brought from the Tower of London through Traitors Gate and onto a barge to go up-river to Westminster. John Winter was only 19, hardly...
Part 3: The True Mission of the Plot? Father John Gerard had already escaped by rope from the Tower once and, due to his relationship to the Gunpowder plot, saw himself heading there again. Father Gerard was at Harrowden where he was Chaplain. He was there on November...
"We must blow up the King and his Parliament..." In 1604 four men, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, John Winter,and John Wright, all Catholics who had been personally affected by religious persecution and who were all related either by birth or marriage, met at the...
Guy Fawkes: Also known as John Johnson,or as Guido Fawkes apprehended on Nov 5th 1605, under the Houses of Parliamnent with hundreds of pounds of gunpowder and a handful of matches. Percy's man, 34 years old. Son of Edward Fawkes, proctor and advocate in the...
Guy Fawkes: Also known as John Johnson,or as Guido Fawkes apprehended on Nov 5th 1605, under the Houses of Parliamnent with hundreds of pounds of gunpowder and a handful of matches. Percy's man, 34 years old. Son of Edward Fawkes, proctor and advocate in the...
"The wondrous miracle of Garnet's straw." As Garnet's body was being dismembered on the block, his head was flung into a basket which had been lined with straw to soak up the blood. It landed with such force that some of the straw was thrown out and one piece...
"...he had never in his life met the like man to Mr. Garnet either for modesty, wisdom, or learning," wrote Sir Henry Bromley of the prisoner Garnet. But Father Garnet was not wise enough. He and one other priest had know all along of the Gunpowder Plot. They knew...
For many years we held as big a bonfire as we could build, with attendant fireworks and general festivities, to carry on the long held tradition of celebrating the Discovery of the Bonfire Plot! One year, Katherine and Andrew Theilman made this video of the...