Some place between 40 and Death
4 November 2007 - 23 חשון 5768 by Huw
A day to remember that Islamicists were not the first terrorists, nor the first to use politics to force conversions - or conformity within a given religion - nor the first to use religion as an excuse for political conformity.
If we’re going to blame everyone associated with terror, we’re all in trouble.
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well, let’s also remember that this day was also made an excuse for “anti-Popery riots”, legal persecution of Catholics through the Penal Laws etc etc
It became part of the infamous Whig version of History.
Yes… you make my point rather well.
Catholic dead and Protestant dead and both sides claiming to be Christian.
We didn’t even need Muslims to blame.
I’m amused by our different Guy Fawkes posts. You made a good point; I… was imagining a Catholic British Empire.
On January 31, Fawkes, Winter, and a number of others implicated in the conspiracy were taken to Old Palace Yard in Westminster, in front of the scene of the intended crime, where they were to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Fawkes, though weakened by torture, cheated the executioners. When he was to be hanged until almost dead, he jumped from the gallows, so his neck broke and he died, thus avoiding the gruesome later part of this form of execution. A co-conspirator, Robert Keyes, attempted the same trick, but unfortunately for him the rope broke, so he was drawn fully conscious.
Henry Garnet was executed on 3 May 1606 at St Paul’s. His crime was to be the confessor of several members of the Gunpowder Plot, and as noted he had opposed the plot. Many spectators thought that his sentence was too severe. Antonia Fraser writes:
“With a loud cry of ‘hold, hold’ they stopped the hangman cutting down the body while Garnet was still alive. Others pulled the priest’s legs … which was traditionally done to ensure a speedy death”.