It’s Bonfire Night Tonight ~ Remember Remember the 5th of November …….
It’s the 5th of November today, so that means it’s Bonfire night tonight.
I remember having some wonderful Bonfire night parties when I was a child. We’d make a big scary looking ‘guy’ to go on top of the huge bonfire that we’d built, and we’d have loads of fire works and sparklers and lots of yummy food.
If you’re celebrating Bonfire night this evening, have a great time and stay safe. 
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
The rhyme ‘Remember Remember’ originates from the 17th century and refers to Guy Fawkes and his Gunpowder Plot.
Guy Fawkes also known as Guido Fawkes 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606.
Guy Fawkes belonged to a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
The Gunpowder Plot was led by Robert Catesby, but Guy Fawkes was put in charge of its execution. They intended to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the entire Protestant, and most of the Catholic, aristocracy and nobility were inside.
The conspirators considered the Gunpowder Plot as a necessary reaction to the systematic discrimination against English Catholics.
On the 5th of November 1605 in the early hours of the morning Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with several dozen barrels of gunpowder. He was arrested during a search of the cellars beneath the Houses of Parliament, the search of the cellars was prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter warning of the Gunpowder Plot, only a few hours before the planned explosion.
After being captured Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were tried as traitors for plotting against the government. Guy Fawkes was tried by Judge Popham who travelled to London from his country manor Littlecote House in Hungerford, Gloucestershire, specifically for the trial.
Guy Fawkes was sentenced to death for treason. He was executed, hung, drawn, and quartered.
The year following the Gunpowder Plot, 1606, saw the commencement of the annual custom for the King and Parliament to commission a sermon to commemorate the event. Lancelot Andrewes delivered the first of many Gunpowder Plot Sermons. The rhyme ‘Remember Remember’ and the sermons ensured that the crime would always be remembered.
In England the 5th of November is traditionally commemorated each year with fireworks and bonfires, on top of which an effigy of Guy Fawkes is burnt.
In the run up to Bonfire night, children makes ‘guys’ by stuffing old clothes and ask passers-by for
“A penny for the guy”.
In 2002 Guy Fawkes was ranked 30th in the list of the 100 Greatest Britons, sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. 
Guy Fawkes also made the list of the 50 greatest people from Yorkshire.
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