William Harrison Ainsworth

by Guy Fawkes, or the Gunpowder Treason

  So terminated the memorable and never-to-be-forgotten Gunpowder Treason, for deliverance from which our church still offers thanksgivings, and in remembrance of which, on the anniversary of its discovery, fagots are collected and bonfires lighted to consume the effigy of the arch-conspirator, GUY FAWKES.

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  [1] Vide History of England, vol. ix. New Edition.

  [2] Confitetur maleficus se vel alium posuisse pulverem vel quid aliud sub tali limine, et nisi tollantur domum comburendam, principem interiturum, quotquot urbem egredienturque in magnam perniciem aut periculum venturos.—DELRIO Disq. Mag., lib. vi. cap. i. (Edit. 1600.)