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Guy Faux Day 1832
The history of the great military Guy of the nineteenth century bears in many points a very strong resemblance to that of his remarkable prototype. The ancient Guy endeavoured to blow up the Parliament, while our modern Guy did blow it up, but with such impotency that it has survived the shock caused by the inflammatory matter which he breathed into it. Extract from Figaro in London periodical 1832
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Guy Fawkes DayGuy Fawkes (1570 -1606) conspired in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James the First and members of both Houses of Parliament. He was arrested in the cellar, which contained 36 barrels of gunpowder, below the House on November 4, 1605 interrogated, tortured and finally executed.
Guy Fawkes Day* is still celebrated in Britain every year with bonfires, fireworks and the burning of the ‘guy’ usually a grotesque effigy. *Since the early 20th century November the Fifth has always been referred to as Bonfire Night.
Surely there never was a phoenix so incombustible as Guy Fawkes! Regularly, once a year, he rises from his ashes, parades through the streets in triumphal procession, attends several public meetings, at all of which he takes the chair and then when the evening closes in, he warms his toes over a friendly fire and cracks his venerable sides with a number of good things and generally retires about ten o'clock, after having spent a very jolly evening, during which everything has gone off as pleasantly as possible. Extract from Illustrated London News 1853
“Remember, remember the Fifth of November” |
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Monday being the fifth day of November, was celebrated as a joyous holiday among those decided ‘Guys’ the conservatives. They made up a large party for the day, Wellington sitting in the situation of Guy, of which he made a most efficient representative.
