This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...to alarm him, but afterwards he took it to Lord Salisbury, the secretary of state, who laid it before the king in council. The letter puzzled the council as much as it had puzzled Lord Mounteagle, and King James himself was the first to suspect that there was some plan to blow them up with gunpowder. The vaults under ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...to alarm him, but afterwards he took it to Lord Salisbury, the secretary of state, who laid it before the king in council. The letter puzzled the council as much as it had puzzled Lord Mounteagle, and King James himself was the first to suspect that there was some plan to blow them up with gunpowder. The vaults under the parliament house were searched, and there they found, not only the barrels of gunpowder, but Guy Fawkes himself, one of the conspirators, wrapped up in a loose cloak, with boots on, and a dark lantern in his hand. Thus was the plot discovered, and that dreadful explosion prevented, which would not only have destroyed the king, the lords. and the commons, but also have plunged the nation into confusion, and perhaps into a civil war. Did you ever hear of a plot half so terrible as the gunpowder plot, and are you not heartily glad that it was found out before Guy Fawkes set fire to the train of gunpowder? The custom of Beating the Boundaries which I witnessed, is a very ancient one. I made some inquiry about it. In all parishes, on a certain season, the churchwardens, or some persons of authority, go round their several districts to mark the boundary of the parish, carrying boughs, switches, or wands in their hands: with these they beat about all round the limits, so that there is but little danger of the parish boundary being forgotten, and the more so as a crowd of the parishioners, especially young people, usually attend them. The custom is looked upon as a kind of holiday, and the persons who go round frequently indulge in pranks of different kinds. They will pull off the hat of any person they meet, and skim it into a pond, or over a garden wall, and not unfrequently, people are laid hold of and pitched into the brook, or river, forming a...
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