How a Threadbare ‘Bag of Secrets’ Led to Guy Fawkes’s Gruesome Execution by Kavitha Rao
May 24, 2023 17:02:08 #
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/guy-fawkes-bag-of-secrets-gunpowder-plot-england?
"The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch."
The Bag of Secrets (top left) and its contents are shown here on display at the National Archives in London. Courtesy the National Archives/ Luke Hayes
I remember Guy Fawkes Day (Nov.5) as a kid when we had great fun letting off fireworks and chanting "Guy, guy, stick him in the eye, hang him from a lamp post and let him die!"
"The documents that convicted the infamous traitor were all kept in this unassuming leather pouch."
The Bag of Secrets (top left) and its contents are shown here on display at the National Archives in London. Courtesy the National Archives/ Luke Hayes
I remember Guy Fawkes Day (Nov.5) as a kid when we had great fun letting off fireworks and chanting "Guy, guy, stick him in the eye, hang him from a lamp post and let him die!"
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