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November 5, 2020

The Bonfire Plot – Who Is Guy Fawkes?

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…..

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November 7, 2016

The Bonfire Plot – Part 4

“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…..

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November 6, 2016

The Bonfire Plot – Smoking out the Jesuits

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…..

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November 5, 2016

The Bonfire Plot: The Plot Uncovered

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…..

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November 4, 2016

The Bonfire Plot: Part 1

“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…..

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November 3, 2016

The Bonfire Plot – Who Is Guy Fawkes?

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…..

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November 9, 2014

The Bonfire Plot – Part 6

“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…..

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November 8, 2014

The Bonfire Plot – Part 5 – The Priests Meet the Law.

“…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…..

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November 5, 2014

Bonfire Night Fireworks – Nov 5, 2004

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…..