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-An important contribution to theory of
Celebration.
-The most complete collection of primary documents
relating to the Great Deliverance from the Gunpowder
Plot of 1605 and its initial celebration.
One
clear,
crisp Fifth of November in London, an American of
thirteen years of age looked
out on what seemed to be another ordinary day, if one
can have ordinary days in
the City of London.Ihad
not been prepared for what was to unfold
as darkness approached.Suddenly on
either side of our house, bonfires the size of the
houses themselves were
lit.Then
the skies were lit up by
rockets and the silence was broken by hundreds of
explosions taking place all
around us. My first reaction was to take cover because as
far as I was concerned the
big war had started. It
did not occur to
me that the fireworks did not represent a war, but
rather the thanksgiving for
our continued deliverance from the threats which
confront us daily. The
next year I had my own fireworks and my
lifetime fascination with the holiday known as Guy
Fawkes Day and its Bonfire
Night had begun.
Later
as a
student at Durham University in the 1970s I attended my
first bonfire, cooked
roasted potatoes in the coals, ate my first Yorkshire
parkin watching the
crackling fire surrounded by clouds of sparks. I felt
linked to that night in
1605 when Providence looked down with the eye of God and
saved a country and
preserved the evolutionary path which has produced our
culture, institutions
and way of life.
Decades later I find myself living in a society
which has seen
unparalleled progress in science and technology.
Miracles of medicine and
technology happen daily.Our
understanding of the universe has grown significantly.One thing
however has
not been accomplished.We still do not know how, without human
intervention and often despite it, we continue to be
delivered, somehow, from
the dangers that seem to appear daily.We still stand like the people of the 17th
century in the presence of
the awesome mystery of Providence.This
is why the study of the human relationship to this
mysteryis
so important.
Calendar customs are much more than
artifacts designed for
amusement and entertainment.They have
been used for centuries to give form to abstract
mystery and to create a dialog with
it. They help us to do what we can to cross over and
connect with the mystery,
to understand it as best we can, and to do our best torelate to it
in the most positive way. This
work is here so we can make progress on this old
frontier with our everpresent neighbor
the watchful eye of God.
What can you do to more fully develop the
treasure that is the
celebration of Guy Fawkes Day and its Bonfire Night?
This work examines
and describes a complex
calendar custom that has taken place each year,
celebrated all over the world
for over four hundredyears. The
celebrations are cultural and individual reactions
to the perceptions of
mysteries and wonders in the environment. My purpose
is to document the annual
re-appearance of this celebration.It is
only after the customs have been documented that we
can begin to understand the
complex prcesses and relationships involved in the
construction of artifacts of
disclosure of mysteries and wonders from artifacts
of celebration, and theirmaintenance
through the manipulation of principles,
processes, relationships and variables.When we understand how calendar customs work
we can begin to optimize their ability to
function to improve the human
condition and strengthen our political, social and
cultural institutions.
Apowerful
network of artifacts of all kinds emanated from the
national horror of the
intended treason known as the Gunpowder Plot.
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 andpermeated
all aspects of culture both
in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Music and chant
are but one dimension of
that extensive network. The collection of artifacts
presented here is just a
start.
The celebration
continues in a world in which the danger of terrorism
looms large. I hope you
will find some of these artifacts of assistance for
your own expressions and
celebrations. Don’t stop there. Compose some of your
own.
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.
The
Folkloric"Big
Bang"---- A Dream of Processes at the Beginning of
Time and the Activist
Approach to Folklore. 18
The Birth
of Relationship
and Process. 20
Management
and Preservation. 20
Bonfire
as Complex
Disclosing Artifact of Celebraton. 21
Is it
"Pagan"or
"Origins Unknown"?. 22
The
Impending End of Bonfire
Forces the Beginning of Study. 23
The
Mission. 24
Dreams Anadventure in abstraction and a Warning!25
The
Cultural Vision.
Disclsosing the "Invisible Entities: "The Mystery of
Providence and
the Wonder of Seasonal Transition. 26
The
Vision of the
Celebration Marching Through Time. 27
The
Vision of Dynamic
Artifacts. 28
Celebration
as Pinball29
Applying
Theory to
Celebration. 31
Nationalism
- What Was this
England. 37
The Great Chain of
Being. 37
The Chain is
Challenged. 40
Via Media. 41
Stories
Vs. Explanation. 42
BackgroundArguments. 44
The Book of Esther.
Bible, King James Version. 45
The Sacrifice of
Thanksgiving- Sacrifice
Defined in the Old Testament…... 53
God
Looking Down and Laughing- Inspiration for Iconography
and Verse54
Psalm 37. 55
RegnansInExcelsis,Pope Saint
Pius V, April 27, 1570. 56
Papal Bull56
The
tradition of tolerance toward English Catholics under
Elizabeth was destroyed
by the forceful pursuit of the Counter Reformation by
Pope Pius V.58
A Treatise of
Equivocation, Henry Garnet, c.
1595.59
ComesJames: James IV of ScotlandCrownedKing
of England. 65
The Shepheards Spring
Song, in gratulation of
the royall, happy, and flourishing Entrance, to the
Majestie of England, by the
most potent and prudent Souveragne, James king ofEngland,
France and Ireland, Henry Chettle,.
1603.65
Accession Speech to
Parliament, James I, March
19, 1603. 68
Simaancas, Archivo
General, Secciόn de Estado
840/126, Guy Fawkes, 160370
Measure for Measure,
Act 2 Scene 2
Shakespeare, 1604. 74
Treaty of London,
James I, 1604. 76
Instructions
from
the Nuncio at Brussels to Dr. William Giffordi Dean of
Lisle, Octavius,
Bishop of Trica, August
1,1603.79
To Henry Garnet,
Claudio Aquaviva, the General
of the Jesuits, June 25, 1605.81
Henry Garnet toClaudio
Aquaviva, Henry Garnet, July 24,
1605.82
To Claudio Aquaviva,
Henry Garnet,July
24. 1605. 82
Letter from Henry
Garnet to Robert Persons. October
4, 1605. 84
The
Explosion. 85
The Mounteagle Letter88
House of Commons,
Journal, Vol. 27, fol. 4,
Parliament, November 5, 160594
Warrants By the King,
King James I, 1605. 95
By the King, King
James I, 1605. 96
Descriptions of
Robert Winter and Stephen
Littleton by Robert Baker, 160597
By the King, King
James I, 1605. 97
Diary,Sir Roger Wilbraham, The 5 of Nov. 1605. 98
To Sir
Thomas Edwards, Ambassador at Brussells,Sir Edward Hoby, Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
1605. 99
Letter, John
Chamberlain, November 5, 1605. 99
The King’s Speech. 101
The King’s Book,
James I, 1605.111
Account, Robert
Cecil, Lord Salisbury, 1605, (Ed.: Philip Sidney,1905. 227
An Answere To
Certaine Scandalous Papers, Scattered
abroad under colour Of a Catholicke Admonition. Qui
facit vivere, docet orare ,
Robert Cecil, 1606.233
TheWeekely Newes Numb.9, Jeffrey Chorlton ,Munday
31 January 1606245
The Araignement and
Execution of the late
Traytors, with a relation of the other traytors, which
were executed at
Worcester, the 27 of January last past. Jeffrey
Chorlton, 1606249
Account of the
Miracle of Garnet's Straw,
Trial of the Conspirators, 1606.256
Investegations noted
in the Calendar of State
Papers Domestic: James I, Parliament,1603-1610.262
Constructing
Celebration. 319
Psalm 66. 319
From the Story of
King Asa of Judah. 320
Psalm 33. 320
Proverbs 33. 320
Psalm 94. 320
Proverbs 15. 321
Frontispeece
“Discovered”from
Novembris Monstrum, A.B.C.D.E., 1641322
Paradise Lost, John
Milton, 1667. 323
Video Rideo- I See
and Laugh to Scorn. 323
Psalm 37. 325
“The Double
Deliverance of England from the
Spanish armada and Gunpowder Plot,”Samuel Ward, 1621. 328
Volpone; Or, TheFoxe. Ben
Jonson January 1606- February 1607. 329
Making
the Commemoration
Official332
Gunpowder Plot- A
learned and religious
Speech. -332
Noah’s Thanksgiving. 333
Robert Bowyer,”Book
I, Stanford MS,”
1606-1607.333
Here
begins the Official
Annual Commemoration of the Great Deliverance.335
Thanksgiving Act,
James I, 1605. 336
The Sermon Preached
at Paules Crosse, the
tenth day of November, Being the next Sunday after the
Discoverie of this late
Horrible Treason, William Barlow(e), November 10,
1605.339
William
Barlow.. 354
Some
thoughts about this
sermon. 355
A Sermon Preached
Before The Kings Maiestie At
Whitehall On the Fifth of November Lancelot Andrewes,
November 5, 1606. 356
Lancelot
Andrewes. 371
Some
Thoughts About this
Sermon And Lancelot Andrewes’ other Gunpowder Treason
Sermons. 372
Sermons by Lancelot
Andrewes on the Gunpowder
Treason: Excerpts Prescribing Means and Nature ofCelebration
and Thanksgiving. 374
William Leigh
Preaches. 400
Introductory Riddle
from :THE DOUBLE
PP.,Thomas Dekker, 1605.401
O Lord How Joyful is
the King –For the Fifth
of November, Thomas Weelkes, c.1605402
Gun-Powder Plot: Or,
A Brief Account of that
bloudy and subtle design laid against the King, his
Lords and Commons in
Parliament, and of a Happy Deliverance by Divine
Power, 1605. 403
A Forme of True
Repentance, fit for Traytors
to Sing and use now, and at all times while life is in
them: made in part by
one of Babingtons Conspiracy. And may be sung to the
tune of the 25. Psal. John
Rhodes, minister of Enborne: From A Briefe Summe, 1606405
A Real
Blast408
Comes
William.. 411
Proclimation Two
Additional Prayers to be
Added to the Fifth of November Litany, William and
Mary, October 30, 1689. 413
Protestant Day,1885,
Douglas B. W. Sladen,
1885. 415
The
Evolution of the
Celebration. 417
Conclusion. 418
Remember, Remember
the Fifth of November418
Apendix I Cast of
Characters. 420
The
Plotters. 420
Robert Catesby:420
The Popes
and Priests. 428
Priests. 428
Citizen. 431
Popes. 431
The Government
Officials. 433
Charles I. 435
. 435
Elizabeth of Bohemia. 435
Thomas James Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet (or Knevytt,
Knyvett, Knevett, Knevitt),1558 – 27
July 1622.438
Sir William Wade (or
Waad, or Wadd), 1546 – 21
October 1623. 439
Apendix II Chronology
of The Gunpowder Plot440
Appendix
III , Places Relating to the Rebellion in the Midlands. 445
Apendix IV
Architecture. 447
Apendix V, Two
important accounts from outside
of the Political Establishment450
Apendix VI, Early
Analytical Sources. 450
Apendix VII Guy
Fawkes did not say: “A
dangerous disease requires a desperate remedy.”450
Appendix VIII
Harrison Ainsworth’s Confusing
Psudo History. 451
Appendix VIV The
Official End of Celebration. 452
Appendix X Discovery
of the Plot results in
Oath of Allegience. 453
The
Gunpowder Prepares the
Colonists at Jamestown 1607. 453
Appendix XI The
Celebration of the Deliverance
in the American Colonies454
Fifth of
November Roystering
in Plymouth 1624. 454
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