1 gen 1686 anni - gunpowder treason day

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This was the original name for what we now call ‘Bonfire night or ‘Plot night’, the celebration on 5 November of the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. The churchwardens’ accounts of Salisbury for 1611-12 record that the bells were rung ‘on the daie of the Gunpowder treasonn’, and these same words are used in a variety of records into the eighteenth century at least. The celebrations must often have got out of control. On 5 November 1785, a Slaithwaite diarist wrote <i>unruly work this day, and especially at night, having a Fire before Landlord Sykes’s door, ringing a bell and going on the Houses till after midnight</i> (KC242/1). Almost a century earlier, in 1686, the diarist Abraham de le Pryme commented on the banning of bonfires and fireworks by the authorities, saying that it was obvious to <i>the vulgar and everyone</i> that the authorities were intent on <i>the hindering of rejoicings and sports on gunpowder treason night</i> (SS54/10).

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