{"id":2251,"date":"2013-11-05T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2013-11-05T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:21:37","slug":"from-timid-testicles-to-gunpowder-plot-truthers-ten-things-about-bonfire-night-you-probably-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"Gunpowder plot truthers – ten things about bonfire night you probably didn’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Article in the Independent<\/a> with a bit more history and a touch of gruesomeness for those who don’t know about hanging, drawing and quartering.<\/p>\n

Apparently is was by law<\/em><\/strong> that you had to remember, remember the 5th of November.
\nThere 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.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Philip III<\/a>\u00a0as to the true standing of Catholics in England.
\nIt 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\u00a0Elizabeth I<\/a>.
\nHowever, any chance of Spanish support for such a venture was minimal as the Spanish were still very much affected by the disaster of the\u00a01588 Spanish Armada<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a calamitous defeat that had left deep scars in Spanish society.
\nIn the Spanish court he would have heard the masses of Tom\u00e1s Luis de Victoria<\/a>,\u00a0Alonso Lobo<\/a>\u00a0and maybe even some Monteverdi<\/a>.
\nMiguel de Fuenllana<\/a>\u00a0might have still been around although very old, and so too would\u00a0Hernando de Cabez\u00f3n<\/a>, son of\u00a0Antonio<\/a>.
\nBack in England he might have bumped into\u00a0Orlando Gibbons<\/a>,\u00a0Robert Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Robert Dowland<\/a>\u00a0on their way to the cellar.<\/p>\n

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

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