Remember, Remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot
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Unfortunately for them, they were incompetent enough to get captured ALIVE. They spend a while in the King's torture chamber before finally being dragged through the streets and hanged, drawn (disembowelled and castrated) and quartered (torn apart into 4 pieces). Ouch!!!
Oh well, Spanish-loving, treasonous Papists!
Oh well, Spanish-loving, treasonous Papists!
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Hell yeah, in those days, the king's word was law! No room for moral relativism in that world!
For a long time, this holiday was a celebration of Protestant rule in England, along with the glorious 12th of July.
Umm, this was begining of the period where Parliament was increasingly insisting upon its rights, sort of the fiz coming out of the bottle after years of preasure building during the later Elizabethan period. Also the begining of the development of the concept of Judicial Review.
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Also an interesting link as to what would have physically occured had the plot succeed: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1501865/Guy-Fawkes-had-twice-the-gunpowder-needed.html
Ouch!!! indeed.
They even took a dim view of white collar crime back in the day. I can think of a few junk mortgage brokerages back in 2008 who would have benefited from this lesson.
This was the order given by King Henry I in 1125. Specifically, they should each "lose their right hand and be castrated."1 According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bishop Roger of Salisbury rounded up the moneyers in the city of Winchester and carried out the grisly order. Henry actually had a history of difficulty with the mints of England. Around 1108, Henry ordered that all coins from the mint should be 'snicked;' cut or mutilated before leaving the mint.2 The coins in circulation were being cut to test their purity, and this caused many to not accept the coins, since portions were cut off and made the coins a lesser weight. Henry's solution was for the creation of round half-pennies, and for every full penny to come pre-cut. (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/me...o-were-in-england-should-be-mutilated.290165/)
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The irony of it is that James I son got his head chopped off, they couldn't ship enough Protestant Puritans to North America fast enough.
The Butcher of Ireland.
The Butcher of Ireland.
