Guy Fawkes Festivals
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Description: How bonfire night was celebrated in Somerset, UK in 1889.
1605, a band of thirteen men, led by Robert Catesby were foiled in their plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. A Yorkshire man called Guido Fawkes had been discovered in the cellars underneath the building about to detonate a large quantity of gunpowder. He had honed his skills with gunpowder while serving as a mercenary for the Spanish army in the Netherlands. After capture, he was subjected to extreme torture to give up the names of fellow conspirators. Together with several accomplices, he was later hanged, drawn and quartered. An Act of Parliament decreed that the Gunpowder plot should be celebrated forever. By about 1625 celebrations were taking place on November 5
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