Article in the Independent with a bit more history and a touch of gruesomeness for those who don’t know about hanging, drawing and quartering.

Apparently is was by law that you had to remember, remember the 5th of November.
There is also a distinct possibility that the whole plot was a put up job by arch Catholic hater and MP Robert Cecil to finger Fawkes, Catesby and their co conspirators.

There is a slim reason other than the date that this lurid post is here, which is that Guy (or Guido as he was known to his Iberian pals) visited Spain in 1603. Here he wanted to enlighten Philip III as to the true standing of Catholics in England.
It is believed that he spent time with his old school friend Christopher Wright devising a plan for a Spanish invasion of England on the death of Elizabeth I.
However, any chance of Spanish support for such a venture was minimal as the Spanish were still very much affected by the disaster of the 1588 Spanish Armada – a calamitous defeat that had left deep scars in Spanish society.
In the Spanish court he would have heard the masses of Tomás Luis de Victoria, Alonso Lobo and maybe even some Monteverdi.
Miguel de Fuenllana might have still been around although very old, and so too would Hernando de Cabezón, son of Antonio.
Back in England he might have bumped into Orlando Gibbons, Robert Johnson and Robert Dowland on their way to the cellar.

Unfortunately, Guido would have missed most of the Spanish vihuelists whom we now know through their publications.
Perhaps if he had stayed to have lessons, he might have escaped his painful death. Do revolutionaries play instruments?