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