Gunpowder Plot
Remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot, so goes the old English chant associated with the yearly burning on thousands of village greens and in millions of private gardens throughout England every fifth of November of the effigy of guy fawkes. For November 5th celebrates the discovery of the famous plot to blow up the English House of Lords. Gun Fawkes was a catholic gentleman who played a major role in Robert Catesby’s plot to blow up King James I and his Parliament for failing to honor James’s pledge to extend more toleration to the catholic as such.