Dedication: 3
Table of Contents. 5
Preface. 17
Introduction. 19
Orientation. 24
Structure and Analysis. 25
The Beginning. 27
Thanksgiving
Act, James I, 1605. 27
All the Guys: Disclosing Evil 29
The
Mask-Are We Gazing upon the Face of Guy Fawkes?. 30
What did
Guy Fawkes Look Like?. 31
Contemporary
Images of Guy Fawkes. 33
The
Plotter’s Group Portrait 33
The
Hogenberg Group Portrait. 34
About
Franz Hogenberg, 34
HOGENBERG,
Flemish Family of Artists. 35
Translation
of German Text 35
Analysis
of the Hogenberg Group Portrait 43
The
Crispijn van de Passe the Elder Group Portrait. 44
Crispijn
the Elder. 45
Comparison
with Other Portraits. 46
Similar,
Almost Identical Images in the Collection of the
National Portrait Gallery, London... 48
A Group
Portrait Published in Germany... 49
Persistent
Credibility. 49
Icon or
Portrait 49
Other
Images. 50
The Head
of Guy Fawkes. 50
Conclusion. 51
The Devil
in the Vault?. 51
Conclusion. 55
Prince of
Sinisters. 56
The Guy
Fawkes Song. 56
What Does
“Sinister” Look Like?. 56
Evolution
of the Mask Design. 57
Hudibras. 57
Hudibras,
Samuel Butler.1663-1678, Canto 2, Part III. 57
Masks in
Celebration. 61
Masks in
the News. 62
1846-NOTES
OF CASE OF DEATH FROM FRIGHT (?) 63
1904
Frightened to Death by Mask. 65
1925-How
nice it would be if everyone was compelled to wear a
pleasing mask! 65
1932 BOY
KILLED IN GUY FAWKES MASK.. 65
1937 GUY
FAWKES MASK TRAGEDY.. 66
21st
Century Examples. 69
From: “Alan Moore
– meet the man behind the protest mask” by Tom Lamont 69
Paradigms
of Guying. 71
Disguise. 71
An
Account of Disguise and Unrule-Violent Theft Highway
Robbery... 71
JAMES
WHEELER, JOHN DENNIS, GEORGE DUFF, DANIEL JOHN QUAY,
THOMAS GROVES, theft with violence : highway robbery,
theft with violence : highway robbery, 4th December,
1828. 71
Guising Vs.
Masquerade. 74
Guising... 74
Mumming... 74
Masquerade.. 75
Accounts
Of Unrule. 77
The Fifth
of November.—Great apprehension… 4 November 1870... 77
Attack By
Bonfire Boys, Lewes, Sussex, 1847. 78
Reaction
Against “Un English” Masquerade Costuming Observations
on the Doings in Lewes. 81
The
Theology of the Effigy. 82
The Mock
Execution and Burning of the Effigy of Haman. 82
Emblem
VII. The Powder-Plot Anon., 1680. 84
Charivari/
Skimmington. 86
Chairing. 89
Chairing
the Member? , Fawkes?, Terrorist?, Freedom Fighter?.. 89
The Shape
Shifting Effigy. 91
Timeline
Vs. Causality, Explanation and Inclusion... 92
Performing
the Past?.. 95
Free
Floating Signifiers. 97
Pagentry,
Pre-Chairing... 100
Fawkes
Chaired as Military Liberator/Outlaw/Gentleman... 106
Fawkes
Chaired as Military Fool. 109
Fawkes
Chaired as Harlequin Clown: 111
1835-
From the Conclusion of: Harlequin and Guy Fawkes or
the 5th of November. 112
Religious
Effigy... 117
Effigy
Iconography. 117
Sugarloaf
Hat. 118
Lanthorn... 120
Matches. 121
Clay Pipe.. 121
1842- AN
AMERICAN LADY, Charles Dickens. 121
Henry
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: Volume 3, 1851. 122
Long Nose.. 122
1679-November
18, Lewes, Sussex, Benjamin Harris , The
Domestick Intelligence, No. 39. 122
Effigy
Engineering. 123
Other
than Fawkes. 123
Aerial
Guy... 124
An Aerial
Guy Fawkes. 124
An Aerial
Guy Fawkes. 124
The
Aerial Guy Fawkes. 125
Giant
Guys. 125
THE
UNEXHIBITED
CARTOON OF GUY FAWKES. BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.. 126
Smug a
Guy or A Man for a Guy! 128
1793- Guy
Fawkes Or The Fifth of November a Prelude in One Act 129
Lamb as
Fawkes 1848. 133
Pole Guys. 134
Beheaded
Guys. 135
Decapitated
Guy... 135
Chaired
Guys. 137
Pram/Barrow/Cart/Modified
Pram
guys. 138
Hung Guy... 142
Also Seen
on the Bonfire.. 145
Fawkes at
Sea.. 148
About
Gunners. 148
Salutes:
Royal Navy. 148
1751--52
George Washington,Voyage to Barbados. 149
1776-Halifax. 149
1799-Wreck
of the Sceptre. 149
1852-7 ?
Melvile Island. 149
November,
1857- In Search of Sir John Franklin. 150
1858-Fox-November,
1858. 150
1870-1875- At The
Southern Cross. 151
1877-Man
of War. 152
1874
Perrin. 152
1876-
Alert 153
1875-1876-Discovery. 153
1876-
December 9, Lookout Floe. 154
Long
Accounts Involving Effigies. 154
1827-
William Hone, The Every-Day Book, London, 1827. 154
1837-RECOLLECTIONS
OF GUY FAWKES. BY DOUGLAS JEKROLD. 155
1840-
Manchester, Louis Hayes. 159
Henry
Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor: Volume 3, 1851. 161
Nicholas
Patrick Wiseman. 174
"The Guys
“. 175
"Guy
Fawkes on the South Coast" 176
39. Guy Fawkes in Effigy, 1828. 177
1881
London Illustrated News. 178
1895-
Fashions for the Fifth, Punch Magazine. 179
The Fifth
of November and Guy Fawkes, In Guernsey... 182
Edith
Carey, in the Report and Transactions of the Soc.
Guernesiaise , 1931: 183
THE
PASSING OP GUY FAWKES, Guernsey, 1915. 183
Copy of
Handbill 185
“Guy
Fawkes Day in London. “, M.A.D., 185
“A gift
of God”. 188
1981-
Meanings of the Guy Fawkes Ritual based upon academic
study: 192
Effigies/
Tableaux in the News. 192
1600. 193
1700. 200
1800. 210
1900. 248
2000. 296
Crime In
the News. 296
GEORGE
HOOKER, THOMAS BATES, theft with violence: highway
robbery, 14th December, 1785. 296
1799-
Lewes, Susses. 297
JANE
THOMPSON, MARY RATCLIFF, theft : specified place,
theft : receiving stolen goods, 14th January, 1824. 298
JOSEPH
BIGG, theft with violence: robbery, 29th November,
1832. 298
1853- TO
THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. 301
11
Extraordinary Outrage by Boys- November 1862, Page 5,
col c. 302
19
November 1881 page 10 col b. 303
1886-
Southwark. 303
1887,
November 5 - Worthing, Sussex. 303
1930- Guy
Fawkes Day in London. 304
7
November 1938 pg. 19, col D.. 305
7
November, 1949 pg 4 col G, Guy Fawkes Night Incidents. 306
9 March,
1953, pg. 3, col D. - “Turbulent” Bonfire Night 307
Conclusion. 308
Other
News Items. 308
1854
Anatomy of A Russian Guy Fawkes. 308
Chants, Bonfire Prayers,
Rhymes, and The Amphibrach. 310
Amphibrach. 310
The
Anthropology of it All 311
Representative
Chants. 312
Northamptonshire:... 312
Sussex. 313
1998,
Linthicum, Maryland, The Center for Fawkesian Pursuits. 314
Center
For Fawkesian Pursuits Chant Commemorative of 9/11. 315
Music Associated with the
Celebration. 316
The Guy
Fawkes Song. 316
Yorkshire,
God Save the King and Britons, Strike Home. 317
c. 1619,
God Save the Queen, John Bull 317
c. 1865,
Jolly Dogs, We're All Jolly Dogs, Such Jolly Dogs Are
We. Or,
Slap Bang, Here we are, Again. Or, The School of Jolly
Dogs , Harry Copeland. 318
Lancashire
Cob Coaling Songs. 321
The
Greenfield, Saddleworth (North Oldham) version. 321
Cob
Coaling Song. 322
1695,
Britons, Strike Home!, Henry Purcell 323
Britons
Strike Home. 323
1907,
Sussex by the Sea, William Ward-Higgs. 328
Pope Effigies. 330
Pope Clement VIII (1592-March/1605) 330
Pope Leo
XI-1605. 332
Pope Paul
V 1605-1621. 333
The Pope
in Procession 1708. 335
Sermons. 336
John
Edwards, Gunpowder Plot Sermon, 1709-10 Cambridge. 336
Bonfire Clergy and Sermons. 353
Saturday,
19 November, 1831, Huddersfield, BURNING A BISHOP IN
EFFIGY! 353
Thursday,
10 November, 1831. Huddersfield.—.. 355
1867-The
Speech of the "Lord Bishop of Lewes" 356
1879-Lewes,
Sussex. 357
1895-The
Speech of the "Lord Bishop of Cliffe," Lewes,
Sussex, England. 357
1906-THE
CLIFFE SOCIETY, Lewes, Sussex. 359
1994-A
Bonfire Sermon, Archbishop of the Cliffe. 360
A few
thoughts on this sermon. 361
2003-The
Address of the Archbishop of the Cliffe Bonfire
Society. 362
Sermons
in the News. 367
Sunday,
10 November, 1839, GUY
FAUX IN THIE PULPIT. 367
Processions. 372
Example
of Bonfire Event Planning, Hastings, Sussex, 1998... 372
Challenges
in the 21st Century. 377
7th July
2015 Fletching Bonfire Society. 377
Processions
in the News. 378
1679-November
18, Lewes, Sussex, Benjamin Harris , The
Domestick Intelligence, No. 39, 378
Pageantry
Procession: “The Solemn Mock Procession of the Pope
Cardinals Jesuits Friars etc. Through the City of
London November 17, 1679, (the anniversary of Queen
Elizabeth's Accession)” A Whig protest relating to The
Exclusion
Bill Parliament 379
Robert
Merry’s Museum, “The boys of London on Guy Fawkes’s
Day”, 1848, 380
1850-THE
FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. 382
1878-
Punch- “Grown-Up Bonfire Boys”. 384
1886
Punch Magazine. 386
Tuesday
November 6, 1888 Sussex Daily News "Guy Fawkes Day
Celebrations": "Annual Carnival at Lewes". 386
1902-Lewes,
Sussex, THE CLIFFE SOCIETY.. 387
1909- The
Surviving Fantasticals. 389
Procession-Hastings
Borouough
Bonfire Society with Nick Lynas at Battle, Sussex,
2012. 390
West
Country Carnival 391
Bridgewater
Carnival 393
Newsreels. 398
Bonfires. 399
Stages
for All the Worlds. 399
Definition:Chub. 405
Sites for
Bonfires. 405
Composition
of Bonfire:. 405
Bonfire
Construction. 405
Guy On
Top... 405
Lumber
Stacked/Architectural. 406
Pallet
Bonfire.. 406
History
of Bonfires. 407
Descriptions
of Bonfires. 411
1878-
Hardy on Bonfires 3 -The Custom of the Country... 411
1912-Chesterton
Describes Bonfires-- THE WRONG INCENDIARY.... 415
1827-
William Hone :about London Bonfires. 417
LEWES
BONFIRE CELEBRATIONS 2001. 417
Lewes,
Sussex, 1998... 418
Lewes
Bonfire 1997... 419
The
Center For Fawkesian Pursuits-America's Only (?)
Bonfire Society!
Linthicum, Md.,
1997... 420
From:
DERRICK GIBSON-HARRIES (Northern Ireland). 422
Bonfire
Societies. 423
The
Sussex Bonfire Society Tradition... 423
Bibliography- 423
Generic
Bonfire Society Rules c.2015... 424
Badges. 428
Tableaux. 429
Torches. 430
Chestnut
Coppice Cultivation... 430
Torchmaking! 431
The
Hastings Borrough
Bonfire Society Method for Making Torches. 431
Thanks to
the late Gerry Glenister of the Hastings Bonfire
Society! 432
Torch
Making Method II. 433
Long
General accounts of Celebration. 436
1853-
London Illustrated News. Nov. 5, 1853, Recollections
of the Fifth of November, And the way in which it is
Generally "Remembered", Horace Mayhew.. 436
1863 “THE
FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.” In:
Boy's Yearly Book, John Tillotson. 439
1897:
William Shepard Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs
and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and
Miscellaneous. 443
1900--Firminger,
Thiselton-Dyer,
British popular customs present and past illustrating
the Social and Domestic Manners. 448
Bonfires
in the News. 450
1600. 451
1700. 454
1800. 457
1900. 471
Foods. 497
The
Theology of Feasting. 497
1613, OF THE PRACTICE OF PIETY IN
HOLY FEASTING. 497
Events. 498
1610,
Details of a Slap Up Dinner. 498
1617
Great Feast 498
c.1630,
Indulgence. 498
1658,
Gunpowder Treason dinner, 499
Beverages. 499
Guy
Fawkes Punch... 499
Jacket
Potatoes. 500
Sausages. 500
Cumberland
Sausage.. 500
Cambridge
Sausage.. 500
Lincolnshire
Sausage.. 501
Oxford
Sausage.. 501
Gloucester
Sausage.. 501
Cakes
Made for Guy Fawkes Day. 501
Thar
Cake/Tharf Cake/Parkin... 502
Parkin. 502
We Keep
Eating Parkin, That's Why We Are So Brown... 502
Parkin
Pigs. 503
Thar/Tharf
Cake. 503
1895-Tharf
Cake, Derbyshire. 503
Yorkshire
Parkin. 503
Parkin,
Tharf Cake and November 5th. 504
Thar-Cake
History. 505
1842-
Thar-cake. 506
Hard
Honey Tharf Cakes/Parkins. 507
Bakestone
Parkin with Honey. 507
1830- A
Bakestone Parkin with Treacle. 508
Treacle
Parkin, Oven-Baked. 508
Beer
Parkin, Yorkshire. 509
Modern
Parkin from Huddersfield. 509
1899-Yorkshire
Parkin. 510
c. 1940-
Thor Cakes, Derbyshire Mrs
Nixon, White Lodge Cottage, Baslow near Bakewell 510
Yorkshire
Parkins, Mrs.
A. Eley, Snydale, Wakefield. 511
Scotch
Perkins. 511
Yorkshire
Parkin. 512
Yorkshire
Parkin. 512
THORCAKE.. 513
Thar-Cake
Recipe. 514
Plain
Tharf Cake or Bannock. 514
Bonfire
Treacle Toffee. 515
1876... 515
1881. 515
1883... 515
Bonfire
Toffee Recipes. 515
Bonfire
Toffee. 515
Bonfire
Toffee Apples. 516
Tom Trot 517
1893-
“Tom Trot, The Penny Post” (8th S., ii, 189), 518
Conkies. 518
Plum
Pudding. 519
Lady
Franklin’s Plum Pudding. 519
... 519
1883-
Christmas Pudding, The Buckeye Cookbook. 520
Bonfire
Night Pit Turkey: Center for Fawkesian Pursuits. 521
Other Customs. 524
Bell
Ringing. 524
Mischief
Night 525
Riot 525
Riot in
the News. 525
1751-
Gentleman's Magazine.. 525
1863-
October: Dartford... 525
6
November 1863 Page 5 col d, Guy Fawkes’ Day at
Guildford... 526
23
November 1863 Page 12 col d, Riot at Guildford. 527
28
November 1863, Page
10 col d. 528
Disgraceful
Riot at Malton, 7 November 1867... 529
Guy
Fawkes Riot.—8 November 1876 page 5 col. f. 529
6
November 1953 pg. 8 col F, Guy Fawkes
Day “Rags”. 529
West End
Crowds. 530
6
November 1959 pg. 12 col C -Over 150 Arrests in West
End... 530
7
November, 1959 pg. 6, col D, A Guy Fawkes Night of
Violence and Rowdyism.... 531
Tar
Barrels. 533
Ottery
St. Mary. 534
Accounts-
1630-1700s. 534
1774-Charleston,
South Carolina, U.S.A.. 535
1837,
Lewes. 535
1841-
Lewes, Sussex. 536
1842--Lowell,
U.S.A, Pope Night 537
1847,
Lewes Sussex. 538
1853,
Mayhew on Tar Barrels. 538
1853,
Lewes, Sussex. 539
1855-
Lewes, Sussex-. 539
1885-
November: Worthing, Sussex. 539
Tuesday
November 6, 1888,
Lewes, Sussex,
Sussex Daily News. 540
1889-
Lewes, Sussex. 540
1895-
Norwich , Conn. USA.. 540
11/11/65-
Devon Playing With Fire. 541
29/12/66-
Blazing Barrels. 541
Beat
folks with Sinews. 541
Push
Penny. 541
Durham... 542
1872- Mr.
Cuthbert Carlton... 542
A Curious
Durham Custom Called "PUSH Penny" (Vol. iv. 41)—....... 543
Fireworks. 544
The Lewes
Rouser. 544
The
Origins of Gunpowder- How did it become a factor?. 546
The
Gunpowder of the Plot- How did they get it?. 549
Paul
Durst, Intended Treason, 1970. 550
Antonia
Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in
1605,1996. 555
Fireworks-
The Gunpowder Fawkes Did not Ignite! 557
A Short
History of Fireworks. 558
Firework chemicals and their Effects... 562
The British Tradition.... 563
Regulations. 565
The
(British) Firework Code.. 565
THE
EXPLOSIVES (FIREWORKS) REGULATIONS (NI) 1999... 566
THE
FIREWORKS (SAFETY) REGULATIONS 1997... 567
Fireworks
in the News. 568
1600. 568
1647 -
Details of Firework Display -London... 568
1800. 569
GUNPOWDER
CELEBRATIONS, 1845... 569
Cannon,
10, November, 1858... 570
4
November, 1870, Page 6, col b. 570
5
November 1877 Page 10 col e.. 572
7
November 1881 Page 9 col 5... 572
7
November 1898... 572
1900. 573
1955-
Fanfare for Fireworks, Fawkes, and the Fifth... 573
5/11/45 ,
Pease To Remember. 574
5
November 1952... 574
6
November 1954, 38 Arrests at Lewes Guy Fawkes Revel,
pg. 6, col G.... 574
7
November, 1955
, pg. 4 ,
col E... 575
1955-
Quieter Guy Fawkes Nights. 575
5
November 1957-Andy Capp... 576
The
Importance of Public Perception of Gunpowder. 577
Poor
Robin’s Almanac 1695... 577
Nicholas
Asherton from Lancashire, Nov. 5, 1617. 577
Thomas
Campion, De Pulverea Coniuratione, Book One,
1612-1613. 577
John
Milton: In proditionem Bombardicam, 1626. 581
John
Dunne c. 1620-1625, MS Royal 17.B.XX (British Library). 581
From the
Trial of the Conspirators. 582
1605-
James I, The King's Book... 584
1845-A
Warning! 584
Conclusion. 586
For
Reflection From the Critics. 587
Hudibras
Redivivus: OR, A
Burlesque POEM ON THE TIMES, Edward (Ned) Ward, 1708. 587
November
1835, “Gunpowder Plot”, From: The Coimic Almanack., 598
3 November 1871 OUR GUY FAWKES DAY.. 600
