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    Guy Fawkes Night originated from the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, where a group of English Catholics attempted to assassinate the Protestant King James I. Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives under the House of Lords. To celebrate the king's survival, people lit bonfires in London. An act was later passed to make the 5th of November an annual day of thanksgiving. Over time, Guy Fawkes Night evolved into an event where children would go door to door singing songs to collect wood and other materials for bonfires.

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    Guy Fawkes Night originated from the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, where a group of English Catholics attempted to assassinate the Protestant King James I. Guy Fawkes was arrested while guarding explosives under the House of Lords. To celebrate the king's survival, people lit bonfires in London. An act was later passed to make the 5th of November an annual day of thanksgiving. Over time, Guy Fawkes Night evolved into an event where children would go door to door singing songs to collect wood and other materials for bonfires.

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    Guy Fawkes Night

    Loboico Anastasia
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    From the history
    Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an
    annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain, involving bonfires and
    fireworks displays. Its history begins with the events of 5 November 1605 O.S., when Guy Fawkes, a
    member of the Gunpowder Plot, was arrested while guarding explosives the plotters had placed
    beneath the House of Lords. The Catholic plotters had intended to assassinate Protestant king James
    I and his parliament. Celebrating that the king had survived, people lit bonfires around London; and
    months later, the Observance of 5th November Act enforced an annual public day of thanksgiving for
    the plot's failure.
    From the history
    Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to
    assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and VI of Scotland and replace him with a Catholic head of state. In the
    immediate aftermath of the 5 November arrest of Guy Fawkes, caught guarding a cache of explosives placed beneath the House of
    Lords, James's Council allowed the public to celebrate the king's survival with bonfires, so long as they were "without any danger or
    disorder". This made 1605 the first year the plot's failure was celebrated.
    The following January, days before the surviving conspirators were executed, Parliament, at the initiation of James I, passed the
    Observance of 5th November Act, commonly known as the "Thanksgiving Act". It was proposed by a Puritan Member of Parliament,
    Edward Montagu, who suggested that the king's apparent deliverance by divine intervention deserved some measure of official
    recognition, and kept 5 November free as a day of thanksgiving while in theory making attendance at Church mandatory. A new form
    of service was also added to the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer, for use on that date. Little is known about the earliest
    celebrations. In settlements such as Carlisle, Norwich, and Nottingham, corporations (town governments) provided music and
    artillery salutes. Canterbury celebrated 5 November 1607 with 106 pounds (48 kg) of gunpowder and 14 pounds (6.4 kg) of match,
    and three years later food and drink was provided for local dignitaries, as well as music, explosions, and a parade by the local militia.
    Even less is known of how the occasion was first commemorated by the general public, although records indicate that in the
    Protestant stronghold of Dorchester a sermon was read, the church bells rung, and bonfires and fireworks lit.
    Songs, Guys and decline

    One notable aspect of the Victorians' commemoration of Guy Fawkes Night was its move away from the centres of communities, to their margins.
    Gathering wood for the bonfire increasingly became the province of working-class children, who solicited combustible materials, money, food and
    drink from wealthier neighbours, often with the aid of songs. Most opened with the familiar "Remember, remember, the fifth of November,
    Gunpowder Treason and Plot". The earliest recorded rhyme, from 1742, is reproduced below alongside one bearing similarities to most Guy
    Fawkes Night ditties, recorded in 1903 at Charlton on Otmoor:

    Don't you Remember, The fifth of November, since I can remember,


    The Fifth of November, Was Guy Faux, Poke him in the eye,
    Shove him up the chimney-pot, and there let him die.
    'Twas Gunpowder Treason Day, A stick and a stake, for King George's sake,
    I let off my gun, If you don't give me one, I'll take two,
    And made'em all run. The better for me, and the worse for you,
    And Stole all their Bonfire away. (1742) Ricket-a-racket your hedges shall go. (1903)

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