the only man to enter Parliament with honorable intentions
The Gunpowder Plot arose in the following way: the King had recently invented a new table called Avoirduroi, which said:
I New Presbyter = I OLD PRIEST.
o Bishop = o King.
James was always repeating 'No Bishop, No King', to himself, and one day a certain loyal citizen called Sir Guyfawkes, a very active and conscientious man, overheard him, and thought it was the slogan of James's new policy. So he decided to carry it out at once and made a very loyal plan to blow up the King and the bishops and everybody else in Parliament assembled, with gunpowder.* Although the plan failed, attempts are made every year on St Guyfawkes' Day to remind the Parliament that it would have been a Good Thing.
*Recently invented by Francis Bacon, author of Shakespeare, etc.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That
Guy Fawkes' Day is one of those things I do not actually commemorate IRL, being American and all, but always feel compelled to remark upon on lj, given that it is intimately connected to my field of study. I am sort of ambivalent about it actually, since I am pro-not-persecuting-Catholics (or, you know, anyone, because yay religious tolerance) and also pro-not-blowing-people-up. So.
When I have gone off to campus and graded my quota of papers for the day I will come home and possibly post decidedly uncheerful remarks about torture in early modern England and/or weird but chillingly effective atonal pieces written to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. So, you know, you have something to look forward to. :\
I New Presbyter = I OLD PRIEST.
o Bishop = o King.
James was always repeating 'No Bishop, No King', to himself, and one day a certain loyal citizen called Sir Guyfawkes, a very active and conscientious man, overheard him, and thought it was the slogan of James's new policy. So he decided to carry it out at once and made a very loyal plan to blow up the King and the bishops and everybody else in Parliament assembled, with gunpowder.* Although the plan failed, attempts are made every year on St Guyfawkes' Day to remind the Parliament that it would have been a Good Thing.
*Recently invented by Francis Bacon, author of Shakespeare, etc.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That
Guy Fawkes' Day is one of those things I do not actually commemorate IRL, being American and all, but always feel compelled to remark upon on lj, given that it is intimately connected to my field of study. I am sort of ambivalent about it actually, since I am pro-not-persecuting-Catholics (or, you know, anyone, because yay religious tolerance) and also pro-not-blowing-people-up. So.
When I have gone off to campus and graded my quota of papers for the day I will come home and possibly post decidedly uncheerful remarks about torture in early modern England and/or weird but chillingly effective atonal pieces written to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. So, you know, you have something to look forward to. :\