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"Remember, Remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot! I See No Reason Why Gunpowder Treason Should Ever Be Forgot!

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Specialized Encyclopedias

  • Mark Nicholls, ‘Fawkes, Guy (bap. 1570, d. 1606)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 March 2006
"...but on the night of 4–5 November, on the eve of parliament's reassembling when the lord chamberlain, Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, was instructed by the king to have a second look in the Lords, having reported nothing suspicious after the first search. This time he searched properly; the man he had previously met in the cellar—Guy Fawkes—turned out to have a 9 inch match in his pocket; under a pile of coal were the thirty-six barrels of gunpowder."
  • The Oxford English Dictionary does not have an entry for "Guy Fawkes," but does list a number of references to Guy Fawkes under the entry "guy, n.2." Guy:
1a. an effigy of Guy Fawkes...traditionally burnt on the evening of November the Fifth
1b. Guy Fawkes day (night)...5 Nov., the anniversary of the ‘Gunpowder plot’
  • "November the Fifth" A Dictionary of English Folklore. Jacqueline Simpson and Steve Roud. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Washington State University.
"... Effigies were burnt as early as the 1670s, although until the 19th century these were more likely to be of the Pope or some domestic political enemy rather than Guy Fawkes himself."

Historical Books & Documents

A very complete list of primary sources related to the interrogations, confessions, etc. can be found in the Gunpowder-Plot Society page. The site contains text transcripts and facsimiles.

Several historical publications on Guy Fawkes are available in Holland Microforms. Check Griffin for the details.

Books

  • A history of the gunpowder plot, the conspiracy and its agents. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1905. Holland Dewey 942.06 Si14h.
  • "In Praise of Guy Fawkes." Platform and pulpit. Edited with an introd. by Dan H. Laurence. New York, Hill and Wang [1961] (text of a speech by Bernard Shaw, written in 1932). Holland Dewey 825 Sh26p.
  • [2]Faith and treason : the story of the Gunpowder Plot / Antonia Fraser. New York : Doubleday, 1996.
  • [3]Intended treason: what really happened in the Gunpowder Plot. by Paul Durst. London, W. H. Allen, 1970.

Historic Articles

"Pope Night: Fifth November" John Albee. The Journal of American Folklore. Vol. 6, No. 20 (Jan., 1893), pp. 68-69

"...Whence the origin of the custom of blowing horns on Pope Night I am uncertain. But the lanterns and other devices for lighting the darkness of the November night have evidently something to do with the discovery of Guy Fawkes under the chambers of Parliament in the act of blowing them up with gunpowder..."

The Men Who Foiled Fawkes. Andrew Thrush. History Today. London: Nov 2005.Vol.55, Iss. 11; pg. 15, 1 pgs


Literary Sources

  • Guy Fawkes night, Lynmouth (a poem). The Literary Review [4](Madison, N.J.) v. 22 (Spring 1979) p. 355-6
  • V for Vendetta / Alan Moore, David Lloyd ; [with Steve Whitaker and Siobhan Dodds]. New York : DC Comics, c1989.


For more article citations and text, search the MLA (Modern Language Association Database).

Newspaper Articles (references to Guy Fawkes)

  • EMULATING GUY FAWKES.; AN ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP THE RESIDENCE OF THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Mar 18, 1881. pg. 5, 1 pgs.
Abstract: LONDON, March 17.--At midnight a policeman on duty at the Mansion House observed a fire on the ground near the rear wall of the Lord Mayor's official residence, and found a wooden box with a fuse connected, to which some lighted paper had been recently applied. (For complete article, check Holland microforms.)


  • POLICE SEIZE MAN IN GUY FAWKES HUNT; Mysterious Stranger With Red Notebook Measured Windows at Headquarters.TRAILED BY BOMB SQUAD He Turned Out to Be a Painter Preparing to Bid ona Job. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: May 2, 1921. pg. 19, 1 pgs. (For complete article, check Holland microforms.)
Abstract: Several years ago a bomb exploded in Police Headquarters. The bombers were never caught. Red historians set down in Red chronicles the usual explanation that the police set it on themselves in order to show a need for the Bomb Squal and prevent the alleged easy berths in it from being abolished.


  • Britain Celebrates Unmasking Of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. New York Times. New York, N.Y.: Nov 6, 1932. pg. 8, 1 pgs. (For complete article, check Holland microforms.)
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