The Gunpowder Plot – Stories from Parliament (Part 2 of 2) Video Lecture | How does UK Parliament's Education Service works? - Personal Learning

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stories from Parliament the Gunpowder
Plot part 2
November the 4th 1605 after my nightmare
I lay awake knowing that the next day
the king and the whole of Parliament
would be blown to pieces I knew exactly
what was going to happen I could see it
all in my imagination but I didn't know
about the letter
somebody had sent a letter to Lord
Monteagle telling him not to go to
Parliament the next day warning him that
something terrible was going to happen
tomorrow this Parliament shall receive a
terrible blow and yet they shall not see
who hurts them the letter was not signed
Monteagle took it to the king and from
that moment the Gunpowder Plot was
doomed the captain of the guard ordered
his men find it
search every attic and cellar open every
door in parliament throw open everything
from the greatest hall to the smallest
cupboard shine your torches into every
nook and cranny go now yes got it there
is a threat to the king hidden in
Parliament find it sir find it tonight
find it now in a cellar under the House
of Lords directly under the Hall where
the King would have sat the next day
they found Guy Fawkes yeah
seize that man bind his arms and hidden
under a pile of firewood they found the
34 barrels of gunpowder Fox had a watch
touchwood and matches in his pocket they
took him to the Tower of London where
the machines of torture and Sir Edward
cook were waiting
he didn't stand a chance
who were the other traitors folks give
us their names and we will not hurt you
there were no others
I was working alone three days they say
he told them nothing for three days
their names Fox I was alone ah till on
the third day he broke Thomas Percy
Thomas winter John right Robert Catesby
so now they had my Master's name Robert
Catesby put up a fight when the king's
men tracked him down that he was
outnumbered and they shot him dead I
wept for my master but at least I knew
he had a quick death
the others were not
so lucky I was there at the trial in
Westminster Hall I saw them brought in
heard them condemned for high treason
heard to their confessions and the
terrible sentences that were passed upon
them a bitter fate awaits any man who is
guilty of high treason - these plotters
these conspirators these vile traitors
shall be dragged through the streets -
old palace yard in Westminster and there
they will be hanged I was there to see
Guy Fawkes and three others die in the
old palace yard right next to the
Parliament building they wanted to blow
up
traitors are made to suffer before they
die they are hanged drawn and quartered
their bodies are cut open while they are
still alive I will not tell you of the
terrible things I saw that day but I
still shudder when I remember how those
men died I knew what they were planning
you see if they were all traitors and so
was I and if they truly deserve that
terrible death then perhaps I did too
and now we Catholics will not be trusted
for a hundred years they will stop us
from practicing law or becoming officers
in the army
soon it will stop us from voting for the
next hundred years we Catholics will be
blamed for every fire and plague in
England and the plotters their names are
already forgotten except one for the
people will remember Guy Fawkes
the king ordered bond fast a bit to
remember the night his Majesty was saved
from certain death and now on November
the 5th every year people light their
fires and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes
the man waited in the dark with matches
and touchwood in his pocket
the man came within a whisker of
changing England ever
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