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... a few dozen barrels of kaboom-powder, you Protestant fucks.
--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: November 5, 1605--
In 1603, James I became king of England, succeeding the childless Elizabeth I. James’s mom was Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth had executed in 1587 for trying to have her assassinated. That’s called regicide, FYI. Anyway, Mary had been a devout Catholic, and English Catholics, who had been treated like shit by Elizabeth, were hopeful ++
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...sent him a vague letter that basically said yo, skip this parliament cuz bad shit’s gonna happen. That prompted a search of the House of Lords and lo and behold who is this mustachioed mofo guarding these thirty-six barrels of aristocrat-explode waiting to a light a fuse? Guy Fawkes was arrested, the plot thwarted.
Fawkes was tortured for a few days to get him to reveal the nature of the plot and the names of his ++