DiscoverDiscover the the daring daring plot plot behind behind Bonfire Night! Night! of November

Facts, fun and loads of cool things to do! In 1603, James I became the new King of . Many people hoped The rats in the for more freedom for Catholics. They were disappointed. cellars of the was a Catholic from . In 1605, he plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament witness some new king and the Houses of Parliament and make England safe for strange Catholics. Catesby recruited a Catholic soldier called to help. goings on. Roll the barrels in here

Leave the gunpowder here for Guy Fawkes to light

Meanwhile at , near Rugby, Robert Catesby and his plotters are making plans.

We’ll blow up I hate to Parliament and shed blood when we know the king is dead and we are safe, our people at will make his daughter, Elizabeth, queen

Then we shall rule England through her... asafe It’s the only Catholic way for England Catholics to be free

We must warn But later that week the Catholics in , Catholic in Parliament sympathizer Lord Monteagle receives a letter warning him not to attend the State Opening of Parliament on We’ll 5 November. It pretend tells him to burn we know the letter nothing, wait immediately but till November he doesn’t. 4th and then catch the Too dangerous. Doesn’t say who it’s from traitors We might get red-handed found out 1 4 November 1605, soldiers search the Traitor! You will tell us Ow! everything you know about this evil plot Shhh!

Idiot!

Never! Ssshhh!

Guy has been caught. We must escape from London to Dunchurch

After days of , Guy Fawkes reveals the plotters’ names. Meanwhile, the plotters meet in the Red Lion Inn at Dunchurch We need fresh horses It’s not the easiest place to steal horses, but…

Warwick Castle?! I say we continue Oh no! Soldiers are surrounding the house

No one helps the plotters as Quick This is no they ride across England and hide! so Catesby leads a group to time to hide at . hide 2 When Catesby and Thomas Percy go outside, We must go out a soldier shoots them both with a single bullet. and face our Protestant enemy OOOFF!

NNRRG!!

Round up the rest of the plotters and take them back to London for questioning he remaining gunpowder plotters were convictedT of high and executed in front of large crowds in London in 1606.

Their heads were displayed on poles as a lesson to all England to obey the king.

The king ruled that 5 November every year should be a day of and celebration for ‘the joyful day’ when Parliament was saved from the gunpowder plotters’ explosion. People lit in the streets and had parties. And we still do today! END 3 James VI of Scotland became King James I of England too in 1603, when died. As king, he was automatically head of the Protestant .

The gunpowder plotters were Catholics who were fed up with being persecuted and not allowed to practise their faith. English Catholics hoped the new King James I of England would make life easier for Catholics. They were wrong.

The gunpowder plotters were convicted of treason. Treason means a crime against the king.

I'm taking the easy way out

Hang on! We haven't punished you enough yet!

Clever Guy Fawkes jumped King James I from the executioner’s (1566-1625) platform and died before his horrible punishment began. BARRELS C A T H O L I C K N P BONFIRE CATESBY Z R E D W O P I R R A CATHOLIC T R E A S O N Q O E R CELLAR R W N P U G L T O R L DISCOVER E T A R J A E Y L I I DUNCHURCH V T X A Q S M Z G F A GUY KING JAMES O A M Y T U B J U N M PARLIAMENT C E C A T E S B Y O E POWDER S R N S L E R R A B N PROTESTANT I T C E L L A R P B T RAT D U N C H U R C H T A TREASON

Will you sparkle or bomb? Good luck! 4 Colour in this famous portrait of Guy Fawkes

See your own artwork online! We’d love to see your drawings and read your stories and poems too. They can be about Guy Fawkes and the or Bonfire Night. Send them to us at: Historic Environment Record, Museum Field Guy Fawkes Services, The Butts, (1570-1606) Warwick, CV34 4SS Aged 35

We will display your art and stories on our web site, http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk

4. Ask an adult to put the paper in a very hot oven to dry it out. Don’t    1. Put your paper on a go away in case it baking tray. catches fire!

Why not age some 5. When the paper and make paper is dry and your own Monteagle dark, ask an adult to take it out of Letter or write a the oven and put tortured confession 2. Make a cup of strong it somewhere to tea or coffee, and pour it cool down. and send it in to us onto the paper. to display on our web site. Aging paper involves a hot 6. Now you oven, so you will can write 3. Let the paper soak, then on it! need to ask an tip away the extra water. adult to help you. 5 The Red Lion Inn, Dunchurch 1605 or 2008?

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