The  Book  of  Guy Fawkes  Day

Literature


ISBN: 978-0-9854486-3-9

335 Pages Illustrated, Notated

 

©Conrad J. Bladey Author, Mary C. Bladey Editor 2013


The most comprehensive anthology of English literature


 referencing the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes Day and


Bonfire Night, November 5 ever published. Includes an


analysis of the role of literature in celebration.

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A comprehensive anthology, the first of its kind of English literature referencing the


Gunpowder Plot of 1605, Guy Fawkes Day- November 5 and Bonfire Night from 1605


to the present.


  • Includes an analysis of the role of literature in celebration.
  • Many illustrations
  • Annotated
  • This reference is a most helpful resource for the study of the history of English literature.
    • From the Book

      This volume is designed to provide an overview of literature which has been composed using the artifacts of the Gunpowder Plot and Great Deliverance of 1605. There will be other volumes which will focus upon theater, criticism and satire. The entries are arranged chronologically. This is not done to proclaim a single evolutionary strand but to illustrate how the artifacts of the plot and deliverance: characters, drama, horror and action have been configured through time. Gathered up by authors possibly representing specific groups and paradigms, the artifacts are formed into artifact types which persist, disappear, are edited, rise and fall. Many groups bring many purposes to the configurations. There are many different evolutionary paths. How can we identify variables, principals and processes that keep these treasured artifacts as it were in suspension in the complex cultural environment? How can such treasures be managed for maximum benefit and minimal degradation?  How can they be used to create new artifacts which will stand the test of time?

      A powerful network of artifacts of all kinds developed from the national horror of the intended treason known as the Gunpowder Plot. (See Volume I). Following the horror came the wonder of the mysterious Great Deliverance.  The network of artifacts sharing constituent parts took root in society, extending outward, serving potentially as many interpretations, meanings and functions as there could be participants or ideas. The network began with a traditional cultural response to the horror and deliverance--bonfires and bells. Then it was given energy by government mandates and religious liturgy. Yet throughout, the most important motivating force was the horror and awe felt by the people in general. This motivated them to, despite their local and regional cultures unite to “Remember and Remember.” The roots of the network extended to all levels of society and permeated all aspects of culture both in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Literature is but one dimension of that extensive network. The collection of artifacts presented here is just a start.
      This work is designed to gather together artifacts created from those of the Gunpowder plot. It brings them from many obscure and hard to access places. This makes of many one; E pluribus unum so to speak.It is the first step toward meaningful analysis and explanation. I hope it facilitates future work.
From the moment of the discovery ot the Gunpowder Treason and the revelation of the Great Deliverance on that dark late night of November 5, 1605, the British Isles and later the whole world would experience literary fireworks of profound significance. The powder not exploded by Fawkes in the vault was ignited by authors of all kinds for an infinite number of purposes.

 

      The storyboard events, personalities and excitement of the plot were absorbed immediately into cultural, political and religious groups accoss society. The artifacts of the historic event became building blocks which were gathered up to be formed and re-formed to give voice as never before to artists and causes. Each tradition, paradigm or point of view took up these artifacts to “spin” them into new fabrics. Reference to them was everywhere. One is hard pressed to determine how authors expressed themselves before the plot without them. One example is the word “Guy”. It simply seeped into the culture as if via osmosis to fill an important void,,,,


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Table of Contents. 3

Purpose. 13

Preface. 14

Introduction. 15

Guy. 15

An Explosion of Literature designed to Disclose The Mystery of  the Great Deliverance of 1605  and then to Enlighten and Entertain using Elements of the Plot and its Celebration. 17

1605. 17

After 1605, 17

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 124. 17

1606-1631. 18

1606. 19

William Shakespeare, Macbeth. 19

1606. 22

I.H.,  THE DIVELL of the Vault. OR, The vnmasking of Murther In a briefe declaration of the Catholicke complotted Treason, lately discouerd: 22

1606. 29

John Rhodes, minister of Enborne A briefe some of the Treason intended against the King and State, when they should haue beene assembled in Parliament. Nouemb. 5. 1605. with certaine other English Meeters, which may bee called: A dying repentance, or A mournefull Song for Traytors to make verse of now begun by one of Babingtons company, from A Briefe Summe  29

1606. 37

A Song of reioycing for our late deliuerance  Robert Pricket,  from Times Anotomie  37

1607. 38

The Jesuits Miracles, Robert Pricket 38

1608-1695. 57

Almanacs. 57

1611. 57

Locustae Vel Pietas Jesuitica, Locusts or Jesuit Piety, Phineas Fletcher 57

1612. 60

201. IN CONIURATORES QUI 5o NOVEMBRIS, DIE MARTIS. 1605, SUBIECTO PYRIO PULVERE, CURIAM WESTMONASTERIENSEM DIFFLARE INSTITUERANT, John Owen  60

1614. 60

Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, Acted in the Yeare, 1614. By the Lady Elizabeth's Servants And then dedicated to King James, of most Blessed Memorie. Ben Jonson. 60

1614. 61

LX. TO WILLIAM LORD MOUNTEAGLE. 61

c.1605-1632. 61

Vpon the: 5: th of November, Sir Robert Ayton, 61

1616. 63

An Invective Against Treason,"The Hate of Treason", Nicholas Breton. 63

1617. 72

Mischeefes Mysterie or Treasons Master-Peece, The Powder-Plot, Francis Herring/ John Vicars  72

1617-1623. 75

Diaries. 75

1621. 76

“To God. In memorye of his double deliverance from ye invincible Navie and ye Unmatched Powder Treason, 1605.” Samuel Ward. 76

1622. 77

God bends his bowe but shoots not; see, it stands, Thomas Scot 77

1622 (?) 78

On The Gunpowder-Treason Richard Crashaw.. 78

Upon the Gunpowder-Treason I 78

Upon the Gunpowder-Treason II 80

Upon the Gunpowder-Treason II 81

1622. 83

From:  Of Ambition, George  Wither 83

1623. 85

The Last Speech and confession of the Whore of Babylon Written at her place of Execution, on the Fifth of November last Whereunto is added, The famous Story of the Bell, used by the Irish Papists, taken out of the Bishop of Down and Conner’s Epistle to his Perswasive against Popery, Taylor, Jeremy. 85

1626. 88

The Discovery of the Powder Plot, Anno, 1605. From: Song of  Deliverance for the Lasting Remembrance of Gods Wonderful Works never to be Forgotten…, 88

Mr. John Wilson, 88

1626. 96

In:  John Wilson's "A Song of Deliverance," reprinted from the edition of 1680, John Wilson  96

1627. 97

Popish Plots (Print), Anon. 97

1628. 98

49. Of the Gunpowder Holly-day, the 5. of Nouember, Robert, fl. Hayman. 98

1630. 98

God's Manifold Mercies, John Taylor 98

1630. 99

Upon the Powder-Treason the fifth of November 1605, John Taylor 99

1640-41. 99

Broadside and Writings. 99

1640. 100

London Broadside, Anon. 100

1641. 100

From:-Novembris Monstrum or Rome Brought to Bed in England, with The Whores Miscarying, A.B.C.D.E. 100

c.1644-47. 105

Press and Pamphlets. 105

1645. 106

On the Gun-powder Treason, Matthew Stevenson. 106

1645 & 1673. 107

John Milton, Gunpowder Treason Works. 107

In Quintum Novembris. 107

Translation:  On the Fifth of November Age 17 (In Quintum Novembris ) 112

1645. 115

In proditionem Bombardicam, John Milton. 115

Translation: On the Gunpowder Plot 116

1645. 116

In eandem, John Milton. 116

Translation: On the Same. 116

1645. 117

In Eandem 2, John Milton. 117

Translation: On the Same II 117

1645. 117

In inventorem Bombardae. 117

Translation-On the Inventor of Gunpowder 117

1650. 118

An Anniverse on the fifth of November, Robert Baron. 118

1651. 119

Epig. 36. The Powder Treason, Samuel Sheppard. 119

1653. 119

On the Anniversarie of the fifth of November. to the Fellowes of Trinity  College, Nicholas Hookes  119

1654. 120

A Commemoration or a Calling to Minde of the Great and Eminent Deliverance from the Powder-Plot  John Turner 120

1655. 120

On the fifth of November, Edmund Elys. 120

1660. 121

Proverb. James Howell 121

1663-1678. 122

Hudibras, Samuel Butler 122

1664. 125

Upon the Fifth of November, Samuel Crossman. 125

1667. 126

A SONG OF  DELIVERANCE , John Wilson. 126

1668. 127

THE PORING DOCTOR,  OR The Gross mistake of a Reverend Son of the Church, in bowing at the name of Judas at St. Pauls, November 5. 1663, Robert Wild. 127

The Emergence of the explanation of Cecil’s Scheme, 1670’s. 129

Short Entries: Publications c.1670-1680. 130

1670. 131

A Poem on That Execrable Treason Plotted by the Papists on the 5th of November, Anno 1605, Anon. 131

-Anon., A Poem on That Execrable Treason Plotted by the Papists on the 5th of November, Anno 1605, 1670. 140

1676. 140

Upon the Powder-Plot, Samuel Clarke. 140

1679. 141

SATYRS UPON THE JESUITS, John  Oldham.. 141

1680. 150

Emblem VII, The Powder-Plot, Anon. 150

1680. 151

Anon. 152

1680. 152

Faux’s Ghost: Or, Advice to Papists, November 5, 1680, Anon. 152

-Anon.. Faux’s Ghost: Or, Advice to Papists, 1680. 155

1681. 155

Numb. 1 A New DIALOGUE  BETWEEN Some body and No body. OR THE Observator Observed, Sir Roger L'Estrange. 155

Friday, November 25. 1681. 155

The Torys burn all, Or,  The Tories Candles End upon the Whigs Save-all 158

1683. 159

From: ROME RHYM'D TO DEATH. Being a Collection OF CHOICE POEMS: In two parts, Written by the E. of R. Dr. Wild, and others of the best Modern Wits. 159

A New Song on the Hellish Popish Plot; Sung by BELZEBUB, at a  Merry-meeting of the Devils. 162

A Continuation of the Catholick Ballad inviting to Popery; Vpon the best Grounds and Reasons, that could ever yet be produced. To an excellent Tune, called, The [H]  Powder-plot. 166

Upon the Fifth of November 169

From:  On the Murther of Sir EDMONDBURY GODFREY of WESTMINSTER: An hasty POEM   171

-Dr. WILD.  From: ROME RHYM'D TO DEATH. Being a Collection OF CHOICE POEMS: In two parts, Written by the E. of R. Dr. Wild, and others of the best Modern Wits, LONDON, Printed for Iohn How, at the Seven Stars, at the South-West corner of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill. 1683., An Exclamation against POPERY:, 1683. 172

1690. 172

Anon. 172

1695. 172

A Hymn of Praise for three great Salvations, Watts, I., D.D. 172

1732. 175

Ode  On the Fifth of November, John Whaley. 175

Verses, Occasioned by the Fifth of November.William Pattison. 177

1747. 180

1762. 180

On the Gunpowder Treason Plot., B.Y. 180

1764. 182

On the Fifth of November, Samuel  Rogers. 182

1775. 183

The Adventures of a cork-screw; in which, under the pleasing method of a romance, the vices, follies and manners of the present age are exhibited…... 183

1776. 184

Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift 184

1780. 185

On the Fifth of November, Anne Steele. 185

1780. 186

On PLOTTING, C. Jones. 186

1785-1866. 187

WHEN JOHN OF ZISCA WENT TO KINGDOM COME, Thomas Love Peacock. 187

1795. 188

At a Meeting of a number of the inhabitants of Anarchy town, on Saturday the 31st of January, 1795, The Gazette of the United Sates. 188

1796. 192

EPIGRAM XXVI., Three strangers blaze amidst a bonfire's revel,Samuel Bishop. 192

1797. 193

Fifth of November,  a Poem, Thomas Frognall Dibdin. 193

1801. 198

TOPSY TURVY: WITH ANECDOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ILLUSTRATIVE OF LEADING CHARACTERS Of THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, IN THE YEAR , 1793, George Huddesford. 198

1809. 198

Guy Fawkes, Ann Taylor 198

November the Fifth, from The Works 1811, MDCCLXXXVIII, William Mason 1725-1797I 199

1827. 202

John Keble, Gunpowder Treason. 202

Charles Dickens, 1812-1870. 204

1836. 204

The Pickwick Papers. 204

1836. 205

Sketches by Boz, THE COUPLE WHO DOTE UPON THEIR CHILDREN.. 205

1838. 205

Mudfog and Other Sketches. 205

1839. 206

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 206

1840. 206

Barnaby Rudge. 206

1842. 207

AN AMERICAN LADY.. 207

1844. 208

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 208

1848. 209

Dombey and Son. 209

1850. 210

David Copperfield. 210

1850. 210

A Crisis in the Affairs of Mr John Bull AS RELATED BY MRS BULL TO THE CHILDREN   210

1851-1853. 211

A Child's History of England. 211

Bleak House. 216

1857. 217

Little Dorrit 217

1860. 218

The Uncommercial Traveller 218

1861. 219

Tom Tiddler's Ground. 219

1862. 219

The Haunted House. 219

1865. 219

Our Mutual Friend. 219

1866. 220

The Signal Man. 220

1864. 220

Mrs. Lirriper's  Legacy. 220

1870. 220

"Looking For Guy Fawkes" Searching the Houses of Parliament 220

1821-22. 227

XLII. GUNPOWDER PLOT, William Wordsworth. 227

1830. 227

The Political Guy Fawkes of 1830. 227

1831. 231

The Parish Revolution, THE COMIC ANNUAL, Thomas Hood. 231

1831. 238

LONDON FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.  REMARKS, Thomas Hood. 238

1832? 1833?. 240

Guy Fawkes, Bernard Barton. 240

1835. 241

Guy Faux; or, No Pop-ery!,  Henry W. Challis, Esq. 241

1837. 242

EPIGRAM, Times Of London. 242

183. 242

FANCIES OF THE FIFTH, From Cupid, Times of London. 242

1840-1841. 245

Guy Fawkes or The gunpowder Treason. 245

An Historical Romance, William Harrison Ainsworth, Illustrations by George Cruikshank  245

1841. 258

"Guy Fawkes;  or, The Gunpowder Treason. An Historical Romance. By William Harrison Ainsworth", Edgar Alan Poe. 258

1840. 258

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT , James Smith. 258

1841. 260

PLEASE TO REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER.  Punch, OR THE LONDON. CHARIVARI, VOL. 1, NOVEMBER 6, 1841. 260

1846. 261

TOPSYTURVEY-WORLD, A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear; E.P. Dutton, 261

1847. 262

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. 262

1848. 262

IX  BAKER  FARM ,Henry David Thoreau. 262

1850. 263

Who Rolled the Powder In? A lay of the Gunpowder Plot, Anon., December, 1850. 263

1850. 265

LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER. John Greenleaf Whittier 265

1851. 266

The Traveller by Night In November, Joanna Baillie. 266

Anon. , The Eve of St. Guy, 1852. 266

1852. 268

From: Democritus in London, George Daniel 268

1853. 268

Punch's Prize Novelists, The fat contributor, and Travels in London, W. M. Thackeray  268

1854. 269

GUNPOWDER TREASON, Robert Montgomery. 269

1855. 270

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile,  Herman Melville. 270

1857. 271

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER., E. L. HERVEY.. 271

1858. 272

Bonfire Night, James Whitaker 272

1859. 273

Illuminationas on Gunpowder-Plot Night, A.W. Brown. 273

c.1830-1860. 274

A PLOT OF GUNPOWDER: AN OLD LADY SEIZED FOR A GUY, Ascribed to WILLIAM MARTIN ("PETER PARLEY") 274

1866. 282

The Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo. 282

1866. 283

GUY FAUX'S  NIGHT , William Barnes. 283

1866. 284

Gunpowder Treason, John Keble. 284

Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. Blackmore. 286

1870. 286

The Setting Sun, J. Hurnard. 286

1871. 288

A Burlesque Autobiography, Mark Twain. 288

1872. 288

Through The Looking Glass Chapter 1, Lewis Carroll 288

1875. 289

Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes' Day, L. 289

1878. 290

Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy. 290

1879. 292

WADE HAMPTON TALKS IN CAUCUS IN HIS SLEEP, W.A. Croffut 292

1883. 294

From: Fun. 294

1885. 294

REMEMBER, REMEMBER!, Elizabeth Surr, 294

1891. 295

GUY FAWKES DAY, Charles Frederick Forshaw.. 295

1896. 296

Comic History of England, Bill Nye. 296

1897. 297

Catesby, A Tragedy of the Gunpowder Plot. In the Year 1605, Robert Catesby. 297

1898. 297

Latin Elegiacs on Guy Fawkes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 297

1904. 298

The Phoenix and the Carpet, E. Nesbit 298

1905. 301

XVI.  On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity. G.K. Chesterton. 301

1912. 301

November 5, Guy Fawkes' Day.  G.K. Chesterton. 301

1912. 302

The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler 302

1912. 303

THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER, A.E. Housman. 303

1912. 303

Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf. 303

1914. 304

Popular Burlesque, Ceres Runaway, Alice Meynell 304

1919. 306

THE FEAST OF FAWKES, Norman Rowland Gale. 306

1920. 307

The Lynching Bee, William Ellery Leonard. 307

1920. 308

A REVERIE, William John Courthope. 308

1925. 308

Seventy Years of Life and Labor: An Autobiography, Samuel Gompers; 308

1925. 309

The Hollow Men, Thomas Stearns Eliot 309

1931. 310

The Square Circle, Denis George Mackail 310

1935. 311

The Strange Case of Mr. Goodbody, Ogden Nash. 311

1935. 311

Guy Fawkes Verse. 311

1937. 312

Mrs. Miniver and Guy Fawkes, Times of London. 312

1938. 314

Fantasy, Robinson Jeffers. 314

Mrs. Miniver on Fawkes Day, Jan Struther 315

1943. 316

Mary Poppins Opens the Door, P.L. Travers. 316

1946. 316

Miss Bunting, Angela Thirkell 316

In the White Giant’s Thigh, Dylan Thomas. 317

c. 1950. 317

Guy Fawkes Night, Dorothy Livesay. 317

1952. 318

Helen Dunmore, Patrick at Four Years Old on Bonfire Night 318

1953. 318

DYLAN THOMAS, November 1953, STEPHEN SPENDER.. 318

1957. 319

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let's Let Down Our Hair, Ogden Nash. 319

Gunpowder Plot, Vernon Scannell 320

1958. 320

Guy Fawkes Was a Woman, Times of London-From a Correspondent 320

3  November. 1958, pg. 13 col C.. 320

1959. 322

ANAGRAM  FOR  GUY  FAWKES  NIGHT, Frances Darwin Cornford. 322

1962. 322

The Hard Life, Flan O' Brien. 322

1970. 324

Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian. 324

1979. 324

More about Paddington, Michael Bond. 324

1960-65. 326

Guy Fawkes Night, James K. Baxter 326

1982-1985. 327

V For Vendetta, Alan Moore. 327

Guy Fawkes Moon, Edwin  Morgan. 327

1993. 328

After the Fireworks, Vernon Scannell 328

1993. 328

Chip –Hog, Gillian Clarke. 328

1995 Gunpowdered Reason, David Michael Jones. 329

1997. 329

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling. 329

2001. 330

FIRE AT NIGHT. 330

2005. 330

V For Vendetta, Screenplay, Lana Wachowski and  "Andy" Wachowski 330

2005. 331

5/11, Edward Kemp. 331

2009, 332

Equivocation, Bill Cain. 332

Date Unknown. 332

Blue Touch Paper 332

(November 4th and 5th, Sheffield and Tel Aviv). Hugh Waterhouse. 332

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