The HORRIFIC Execution And Torture Of Guy Fawkes

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  • @petr6258
    @petr6258 4 роки тому +5460

    Amazing coincidence he was caught on Guy Fawkes night.

    • @montyzumazoom1337
      @montyzumazoom1337 4 роки тому +120

      Silly arse😂😂😂

    • @johnadams3730
      @johnadams3730 4 роки тому +123

      You would have thought this is a bad omen Guy Fawkes night better wait till tomorrow.

    • @markfindlay8636
      @markfindlay8636 4 роки тому +117

      Yeah and marriage is the cause of most divorces 😂

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 4 роки тому +11

      Nice 1!!

    • @lillymay3632
      @lillymay3632 4 роки тому +108

      Poor Jesus was born on Christmas day. Some people have luck that sucks.

  • @cowboysfan782008
    @cowboysfan782008 3 роки тому +1229

    For those that don't know being caught "red handed" came from someone stealing and butchering another farmers pig, and being caught with the stolen pigs blood on their hands.

    • @luvver5704
      @luvver5704 3 роки тому +11

      Wow!

    • @kyle18934
      @kyle18934 3 роки тому +30

      Huh, that's really interesting. It makes sense. I wonder what other normalized terms like that have interesting beginnings like that

    • @bobwillis3023
      @bobwillis3023 3 роки тому +13

      I can’t tell if the comments are sarcastic or not tbh

    • @stxmld
      @stxmld 3 роки тому +13

      "...literally caught red-handed...." You mean he had red hands when he was caught?! Of course you don't mean that. He was *metaphorically* caught red-handed.
      Why not learn some English before inflicting your rubbish videos on the rest of us?

    • @cowboysfan782008
      @cowboysfan782008 3 роки тому +37

      @@stxmld Wow. Maybe you should go have a pint so your knickers aren't in such a twist. Either a pint or a Midol.

  • @andreamiller1285
    @andreamiller1285 3 роки тому +1614

    Can you imagine how sadistically sick and insane somebody would have to be to willingly carry out these tortures

    • @QuantumRift
      @QuantumRift 3 роки тому +283

      Yea...just look at English / Brit History. Nothing but torture, executions, beheadings... psychopaths running the asylum.

    • @RARenfield
      @RARenfield 3 роки тому +245

      You mean like the sadistic, sick and insane American Lynchings that continued well into the 20th century? Where whole families would attend the torture and killing of innocent people? Some hoping to take home a body part of the victim for a souvenir. Pick up a book like "Without Sanctuary" if you want to see actual photographs of the work of the sick, sadistic and insane. Not just drawings from the 1600s. And no imagination required. They walk among us.

    • @johnvincent2788
      @johnvincent2788 3 роки тому +107

      theres a lot of people in this world who just dont care. all the normal stuff you take for granted like love and empathy they dont have it. theyre just empty right through the middle, their souls are dead. your souls fragile and one act can destroy it. after that its easy tk do horrific things to others

    • @waverunner3911
      @waverunner3911 3 роки тому +41

      @@QuantumRift do you mean like putting bombs in litter bins and killing little innocent children or in pubs killing innocent people 🤔🤔🤔

    • @joeaardvark9214
      @joeaardvark9214 3 роки тому +65

      Eh. It's honestly what I want to do to people who don't use their blinker while driving.

  • @daxisperry7644
    @daxisperry7644 3 роки тому +784

    You know, if I found out a buddy of mine had named me AFTER having spent a couple days on the rack, I probably wouldn’t even be mad at him. That shit is horrific.

    • @PepsiMagt
      @PepsiMagt 3 роки тому +147

      The rack is horrific even? I think thats a stretch.

    • @Maldoror2112
      @Maldoror2112 3 роки тому +54

      @@PepsiMagt (Que the dropping of 2 drums and a cymbal)

    • @JackAustin613
      @JackAustin613 3 роки тому +89

      If I was conspiring to kill the king and one of my crew got caught I would just disappear. Fuck waiting around for him to break and suffering the same fate.

    • @pissthrower4477
      @pissthrower4477 3 роки тому +14

      @@PepsiMagt I'm impressed that you managed to pull off a joke like that.
      Did I do a funny?

    • @plazmica0323
      @plazmica0323 3 роки тому +5

      @@JackAustin613 There wasnt messenger like nowdays for you to know. They did know what happened to him only that he dissapeared and that there was alarm in kings castle, roumers at best. Then one night some armed men would grab you from your house and escort you to London tower where you would see your friend mutilated in shackles. Too late then..

  • @danhopkinson2811
    @danhopkinson2811 3 роки тому +1722

    Guards: why are you here with all this gun powder!?
    Guy Fawkes: "just waiting for a mate"

  • @chrissibersky4617
    @chrissibersky4617 4 роки тому +5046

    The only man to have entered the parliament with an honest intention.

  • @colinmatts
    @colinmatts 3 роки тому +1321

    The whole plot was wrecked because somebody wrote an anonymous letter to his brother in law telling him NOT to attend parliament that day

    • @owenwilliams9758
      @owenwilliams9758 3 роки тому +417

      “You were always nice to me. Don’t come to school tomorrow” type beat

    • @dizzydaydream9647
      @dizzydaydream9647 3 роки тому +120

      And because one of the conspirators was overheard bragging about the plot while drunk in a public house.......I’ve always said alcohol and drugs are the root of all evil! If only he had kept his gob shut and just had a peach and passion fruit J20 🤣

    • @BlackieNuff
      @BlackieNuff 3 роки тому +23

      @@dizzydaydream9647
      "I’ve always said alcohol and drugs are the root of all evil!"
      Agreed. That cannot be said enough.

    • @nicholasberthod9606
      @nicholasberthod9606 3 роки тому +21

      "An anonymous letter to his brother in law"

    • @NeutralGuyDoubleZero
      @NeutralGuyDoubleZero 3 роки тому +15

      @@BlackieNuff Is every homicide committed by a sober person fake then lol?

  • @veen9667
    @veen9667 3 роки тому +717

    Not a cellphone in sight ,just people living and enjoying the moment !

    • @hombre6604
      @hombre6604 3 роки тому +11

      so we aren’t living and enjoying the moment now that we have cellphone?

    • @ItzDylanM
      @ItzDylanM 3 роки тому +22

      @@hombre6604 no.. people get fixated on what other people have and it makes them depressed. Instead of enjoying what they have.

    • @veen9667
      @veen9667 3 роки тому +59

      @@hombre6604 I believe people these days can't enjoy a good public torture anymore without either scrolling on their phones or making videos or selfies.

    • @weaselbread
      @weaselbread 3 роки тому +4

      God comment

    • @aranyak1881
      @aranyak1881 3 роки тому +11

      @@hombre6604 it was a joke if you couldn't tell.

  • @walkingphotos
    @walkingphotos 4 роки тому +796

    If Fawkes’ arms and legs were dislocated and sinews snapped on the rack, it would have been impossible for him to move, let alone climb the ladder to the gallows.

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 4 роки тому +71

      Yeah I thought that.

    • @jonothandoeser
      @jonothandoeser 4 роки тому +177

      No, a dislocated joint can be pushed back into socket. It happens in sports all the time. Fawkes could have ascended the ladder, but painfully.

    • @PaddleDogC5
      @PaddleDogC5 4 роки тому +38

      He flew

    • @soulveiw
      @soulveiw 4 роки тому +51

      @@johndoe-ss9bz Yeah just ask Vlad

    • @shaka7594
      @shaka7594 3 роки тому +26

      Exactly..he would've been in severe pain, certainly not the photo depicted in the clip, also cutting off of nail, genitals, broken fingers etc etc, i seriously doubt all this..

  • @beverlybarnes3122
    @beverlybarnes3122 4 роки тому +1468

    The cruelty of humans to other humans. Never ceases to amaze me.

    • @dickiedollop
      @dickiedollop 4 роки тому +40

      it’s character building 😁

    • @toter-drache
      @toter-drache 4 роки тому +23

      @@dickiedollop ,Yes, Suffering Builds Character👍🏻

    • @valeriagenesini3781
      @valeriagenesini3781 4 роки тому +1

      @Scott M get lost

    • @steveryan1799
      @steveryan1799 4 роки тому +45

      "The cruelty of authorities to other humans. Never ceases to amaze me."

    • @dovidell
      @dovidell 4 роки тому +66

      you should look up unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese army ( WW2 ) , those monsters made the Nazis look like amateurs

  • @garbeal2397
    @garbeal2397 3 роки тому +511

    I wonder if at any point of his torture his torturers ever thought "this is a bit harsh"

    • @dylanlapenna8513
      @dylanlapenna8513 3 роки тому +44

      They did the same thing to William Wallace so it’s nothing new.

    • @harrythomas1252
      @harrythomas1252 3 роки тому +29

      @@Afterglow-vn5lu cry more

    • @mechanicalturk5202
      @mechanicalturk5202 3 роки тому +3

      Good way to dissuade others from trying something similar

    • @thefreeradical2320
      @thefreeradical2320 3 роки тому +7

      My ancestor... Cpt. William Kidd...was hanged drawn and quarted.....Then displayed on tower bridge......1701...
      🛡🏹🇬...🇧

    • @archiemcnicol3471
      @archiemcnicol3471 3 роки тому +5

      @@Afterglow-vn5lu aye mate just the English...

  • @nfactorial4074
    @nfactorial4074 3 роки тому +377

    Frankly I have nothing but respect for him and his compatriots. Imagine being tortured for 2 days before giving up your friends, the signature shows how much pain he’s in. Clearly made of sterner stuff

    • @elmergarcia8724
      @elmergarcia8724 3 роки тому +6

      @BLACKLUV I mean you just wouldn't get it. I mean I don't either, it's easy to assume when you've never had something like that happen to you. Who knew what his train of thought was, he must've been going insane due to the torture and all it took was one moment of weakness.

    • @nfactorial4074
      @nfactorial4074 3 роки тому +4

      @bryanatwku don’t you believe in an armed uprising against tyranny

    • @elmergarcia8724
      @elmergarcia8724 3 роки тому +2

      @bryanatwku there's a whole religion who lives by that motto lol

    • @nfactorial4074
      @nfactorial4074 3 роки тому +4

      @bryanatwku so what you suggest they hold a peaceful protest back in the 17th century like it would’ve done anything at all lol. Their people were facing religious persecution and they wanted to do something about it

    • @kamuelalee
      @kamuelalee 3 роки тому

      So was everybody else in 1606 AD

  • @dallasthedoberman5072
    @dallasthedoberman5072 4 роки тому +475

    Now a days they just ban you from twitter

    • @cliveturner4980
      @cliveturner4980 3 роки тому +10

      a fate worse than death !!!!!!!!!!

    • @banedon8087
      @banedon8087 3 роки тому +39

      @@cliveturner4980 Nah. I'd rather be dead than be on twitter

    • @ThillerKillerX
      @ThillerKillerX 3 роки тому +4

      Or cancel your bank accounts

    • @jackofalltrades8412
      @jackofalltrades8412 3 роки тому +1

      @@ThillerKillerX rather still be banned on twitter

    • @TehUltimateSnake
      @TehUltimateSnake 3 роки тому +2

      Or cancel you altogether from every social media website.

  • @mrkristoff
    @mrkristoff 3 роки тому +410

    As a kid growing up in England I vividly remember the story of Guy Fawkes and how he was hung, drawn and quartered. Was that supposed to scare me? Teach me the consequences of going against the established order?

    • @elpistolero9394
      @elpistolero9394 3 роки тому +132

      No, they were teaching you history.

    • @violetmartha916
      @violetmartha916 3 роки тому +9

      @@elpistolero9394 😂😂😂👍

    • @mrkristoff
      @mrkristoff 3 роки тому +14

      @@elpistolero9394 Thanks for clarifying. It happened a long time ago so you are right when you say that.

    • @georgiaskrepetos6705
      @georgiaskrepetos6705 3 роки тому +27

      Of course it was...the UK is still stuck in the middle ages

    • @violetmartha916
      @violetmartha916 3 роки тому +16

      @@georgiaskrepetos6705 Hardly 🤔

  • @georgeswampy6224
    @georgeswampy6224 3 роки тому +504

    It’s always been rule by fear. Nothings changed.

    • @travelsouthafrica5048
      @travelsouthafrica5048 3 роки тому +40

      jip just like "covid" today

    • @IanDocherty335
      @IanDocherty335 3 роки тому +5

      LOL

    • @sggdopeyz5346
      @sggdopeyz5346 3 роки тому +9

      Is there a better way to keep people in check? Let me know.

    • @carlosandleon
      @carlosandleon 3 роки тому +3

      Well duh, what would be your alternative?

    • @mshaan4650
      @mshaan4650 3 роки тому +3

      Well, the brutal torture worked. They royals are safe. Enjoying their snobbish luxury lives.

  • @ozegirl44
    @ozegirl44 2 роки тому +45

    I watched a doco where they looked at racking through recreating it using an animal leg. Turns out the joints are really tough and it's the ligaments and tendons that give out first. They are ripped right off the bones first with the joint eventually giving out much later. So even if they stopped racking the victim there was irreparable damage done to the body's tendons and ligaments preventing the victim from being able to walk, or use their arms and hands. The pain Guy Fawkes endured is beyond comprehension.

    • @jamie7498
      @jamie7498 2 роки тому +4

      Well if he was able to climb the ladder and jump to his death they obviously didn't rip his ligaments and tendons away from the bone

    • @shinobix4925
      @shinobix4925 Рік тому +5

      Something not enough people here are bringing up is the fact that Guy wasn't the only person in history to suffer this torture, in fact it wasn't even like this was a rare form of torture only saved for the very worst criminals. *The rack was the single most widely used form of torture.* That fucking nightmarish horror was likely experienced by thousands of people in the least. Guy is probably the most famous victim of it since his plot was the biggest and he got his own day named after him, but never forget that what he experienced was not at all unique or rare. Plenty of people, including innocent ones, suffered these tortures, and that happened often for centuries. Never forget that

    • @melissaburke6004
      @melissaburke6004 Рік тому

      HorrificAnddisgusting

  • @brownbear6819
    @brownbear6819 4 роки тому +324

    They still cut him up, but he denied them the added misery of being alive for it. Good.

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 4 роки тому +22

      Absolutely. Not really an issue being cut up when you're dead.

    • @lueymeteora1410
      @lueymeteora1410 4 роки тому +49

      After everything they had already done to him, breaking an heroic man, and that they were about to kill him aswell (and hanging cannot be thought to be pleasant!) - they absolutely proved themselves monsters deserving of assassination.

    • @whereswaldo5740
      @whereswaldo5740 3 роки тому +4

      They do it as a visual to others so they won’t do it. Many thought the more grisly the death the more deserved it was. So even a grisly accident victim must have had a hidden unknown reason for this happening to them.

    • @andypeterson3070
      @andypeterson3070 3 роки тому +4

      @@whereswaldo5740 Maybe if they did this today there would be a lot less crime. Less victims of crime.Less people in jails and less expense for the tax payer keeping people in prison for approximately @ £30,000 a year per inmate. I wish I took home £30,000 a year myself from working.

    • @IAteYourFace72
      @IAteYourFace72 3 роки тому +17

      @@andypeterson3070 no, every statistic throughout all of history has shown the severity of punishment has no effect on crime rates. Increased focus on rehabilitation does lower crime rates however, along with focus on education. Thus America's crime issue currently. Rehabilitation not a priority as longer sentences and more criminals make the justice system more money.
      However in the cases where rehabilitation proves impossible and the criminal to not be safe for society, the death penalty makes sense to me as a way to save money on someone not worth leaving to slowly die in a cell. That's still a death penalty, just a more expensive one. But it should be used very rarely, as evident from the fact even today, around 20% of executed criminals get acuitted after their deaths.

  • @Raventooth
    @Raventooth 4 роки тому +390

    These videos are perfect for my short attention span and morbid curiosity.

    • @manofweed1
      @manofweed1 4 роки тому +11

      Eight minutes ? I admire your patience !

    • @PogueMahone1
      @PogueMahone1 4 роки тому +2

      You are aware that neither trait is particularly useful?
      (Except, of course, to those who would exploit them for gain.)

    • @sunnyjim1355
      @sunnyjim1355 3 роки тому +1

      And your comments are perfect for my enjoyment of laughing at people who think anybody cares about their inane twaddle.

    • @melissawright1979
      @melissawright1979 3 роки тому +2

      Omg same here!

    • @lordbushmills3089
      @lordbushmills3089 3 роки тому +2

      @@manofweed1 Yes, I’m just over 3 minutes in have dropped a tasteless comment, plus this one and now I’m off!

  • @TheBuccy
    @TheBuccy 3 роки тому +178

    We've stopped this . now we use the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent as a devilish torture.

    • @garrettlowell7637
      @garrettlowell7637 3 роки тому +11

      I am still waiting for the official apology from the UK for Simon Cowell.

    • @mst7806
      @mst7806 3 роки тому +10

      If I had to choose. I’d rather take my chances on the Rack than having to listen to some weeping backstory about a bloke who’s always wanted to sing, ‘boot me ma is alweys needin’ ‘elp wid’er medical bills.”

    • @thomashamilton8125
      @thomashamilton8125 3 роки тому +2

      @MS & T
      🤣 u should be
      Knighted for that
      Comment 🤣🤣🤣

    • @armyguy872008
      @armyguy872008 3 роки тому +1

      Let’s not forget The Spice Girls

    • @mst7806
      @mst7806 3 роки тому +2

      @@armyguy872008 I was trying to!

  • @seanhuds229
    @seanhuds229 3 роки тому +106

    Guards: Who are you?
    Fawkes: (Ok, dont panic) My name is John Johnny John John Jonson....

    • @seanhuds229
      @seanhuds229 3 роки тому +3

      @Gísiu Wulf I know mate, I am an Anglo Saxon after all, we have this thing we do called "Humour"

    • @seanhuds229
      @seanhuds229 3 роки тому +1

      @Gísiu Wulf I give up mate. Sadly I dont speak the same language as people who have been dead for centuries, and UA-cam on the phone pathalogically refuses to allow you to copy a comment in order too translate it. Not that it matters as I am an Anglo Saxon, even if my first name is Irish for god knows what reason.

    • @Dermot2927
      @Dermot2927 3 роки тому

      "Bill...Glass!"

    • @MrThegamemasterlord
      @MrThegamemasterlord 3 роки тому +2

      he should have said johnny rotten and sang ..God save the queen
      The fascist regime
      They made you a moron
      A potential H bomb
      God save the queen
      She's not a human being
      and There's no future
      And England's dreaming
      Don't be told what you want
      Don't be told what you need
      There's no future
      No future
      No future for you..

    • @seanhuds229
      @seanhuds229 3 роки тому

      @@MrThegamemasterlord I think he would have been executed even faster back then.

  • @robashton8606
    @robashton8606 3 роки тому +381

    Given that matches weren't invented until the nineteenth century, it's rather unlikely that Fawkes has a box of them in his pocket.

    • @benschlesinger1754
      @benschlesinger1754 3 роки тому +11

      They were invented in 1826

    • @TheBigBlueBearz
      @TheBigBlueBearz 3 роки тому +260

      Ben wouldn't you agree that 1826 might possibly have taken place within the 19th century? Lol

    • @439bananas
      @439bananas 3 роки тому +43

      He would probably had something like a flint and steel and some sort of fuse made from either something like char cloth or perhaps rope dipped in oil.

    • @439bananas
      @439bananas 3 роки тому +13

      @Gregory Martin Thank you for clearing that one up.

    • @alanmackinnon3516
      @alanmackinnon3516 3 роки тому +10

      @Gregory Martin and it's a pain in the arse to light.

  • @jgunther3398
    @jgunther3398 4 роки тому +129

    "What's your name?"
    "John. Um, um, er, Johnson. John Johnson."

    • @mehhandle
      @mehhandle 4 роки тому +10

      " and I am, Sandy... Sandy sandal, please to meet you"

    • @Fireslanga1
      @Fireslanga1 3 роки тому +2

      @@mehhandle lol good one

    • @grindeyyyyy
      @grindeyyyyy 3 роки тому +1

      Like on family guy when Peter goes to rehab, when they ask his name and he sees things and comes up with pea-tear Griffin

    • @davidbeadle3270
      @davidbeadle3270 3 роки тому +1

      Any relation to Boris?

    • @nickgalley6059
      @nickgalley6059 3 роки тому

      Tacitus Killgore, at your service

  • @Metalica413
    @Metalica413 3 роки тому +93

    “He was literally caught red handed allegedly with a box of matches” ...except matches weren’t invented for another 226 years by John Walker. Am I wrong?

    • @stephenmuth7081
      @stephenmuth7081 3 роки тому +26

      I'm thinking you're not wrong. I'm reading that Fawkes was caught with a "slow match", which was probably misconstrued as a "box of matches". A slow match is a length of treated hemp or flax that took about an hour to burn a foot, and was used to ignite muskets, typically. Also called "match cord".

    • @lawabidingcitizen729
      @lawabidingcitizen729 3 роки тому +1

      Bet that's why he didn't light it then 😂😂😂

    • @biskitz86913
      @biskitz86913 3 роки тому +4

      Must of had a lighter with him then

    • @2410-s9l
      @2410-s9l 3 роки тому

      @@biskitz86913 no, he was found with stick and stone

    • @Hborn
      @Hborn 2 роки тому

      Who told

  • @shazmeister2005
    @shazmeister2005 3 роки тому +49

    Very interesting, for me it doesn’t really add up that he was broken on the rack but then stood / climbed to be hanged. Don’t think you would be climbing anything after having your legs ripped out of their sockets on the rack!

    • @santodomingo1605
      @santodomingo1605 10 місяців тому +3

      The Weekely Newes Number 19, dated 31 January 1606: Last of all came the great Devil of all, Guy Fawkes, alias Johnson, who would have put fire to the powder. His body being weak with the torture and sickness, he was scarce able to go up the ladder, yet, with much ado, by the help of the hangman went high enough to break his neck by the fall. He made no speech, but with his crosses and idle ceremonies made his end upon the gallows and the block, to the great joy of all beholders that the land was ended of so wicked a villainy.

  • @m.susandenton1077
    @m.susandenton1077 4 роки тому +331

    This is why NO Nation, nor Kingdom, should be Ruled on the basis of a Religion.

    • @steveryan1799
      @steveryan1799 4 роки тому +49

      Religion isn't the problem: authority over others is the problem.

    • @IAmAnEvilTaco
      @IAmAnEvilTaco 4 роки тому +25

      He was trying to overthrow the government to install a catholic theocracy tho.

    • @steveryan1799
      @steveryan1799 4 роки тому +12

      @@IAmAnEvilTaco A Catholic theocracy IS government.

    • @RobertEWaters
      @RobertEWaters 4 роки тому +40

      Non sequitur. Not that I necessarily disagree with you, but anything negative that can be said about a religion being the ideology by which a nation is governed can also be said of a secular ideology, including atheism. Just ask Joe Stalin or Mao.

    • @IAmAnEvilTaco
      @IAmAnEvilTaco 4 роки тому +15

      @@RobertEWaters turns out too much power causes problems. Well put.

  • @Sn4keBytes
    @Sn4keBytes 3 роки тому +37

    Guards: what's that?
    Guy: ... smoothie

  • @redacted9071
    @redacted9071 3 роки тому +31

    Just as a lil fact, the building Fawkes would’ve blown up was burnt down in the 1800s I think so the modern parliament building we all know today would not have been victim to Fawkes attack

  • @davidgrahambrown3793
    @davidgrahambrown3793 4 роки тому +159

    I didn’t know until very recently, that Fawkes threw himself off the scaffolding and broke his neck, thereby avoiding the grisly drawing and quartering.

  • @sanctusexitium9956
    @sanctusexitium9956 3 роки тому +28

    Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Guy Fawkes knew very well what the consequences would be should he be caught, which in my opinion raises his his status of courage and bravery to the ultimate level.

  • @djgordonmac
    @djgordonmac 4 роки тому +198

    I can assure you he wasn't found with a box of a matches in his pocket, they weren't even invented until the 1800s

    • @Horriblebastad
      @Horriblebastad 4 роки тому +1

      Uh!

    • @lexiwilson9501
      @lexiwilson9501 4 роки тому +13

      I believe it was a lighter he had.

    • @davidread7492
      @davidread7492 4 роки тому +8

      @@lexiwilson9501 yeah a Dunhill.

    • @dukadarodear2176
      @dukadarodear2176 4 роки тому +6

      @@ObsydianShade
      Thanks for this en-light-en-ing post.
      You are, no doubt, correct.

    • @timjohnson1199
      @timjohnson1199 3 роки тому +4

      They had little boxes with tinder and a flint in it.

  • @majortom6078
    @majortom6078 3 роки тому +17

    For those who doubt the torture or the gallows I have read that he had to be ‘helped’ to the gallows and to climb them. Presumably his legs were dislocated or broken as others have said. I am surprised some seem to doubt the reality of the torture. He either fell or jumped from the gallows and we cannot know which.

  • @MrPlanx
    @MrPlanx 2 роки тому +4

    The part about him having matches in his pocket is IMPOSSIBLE because matches were not invented until about 200 years later.

  • @CherryLipgloss1000
    @CherryLipgloss1000 4 роки тому +60

    As brutal as these videos re - I absolutely adore this channel!!
    I’d love it if you could do full documentaries, but then again, don’t - as I would never get anything done!😂

    • @TheUntoldPast
      @TheUntoldPast  4 роки тому +13

      Thanks for the comment! I’m working on one at the moment. Have a good 25 minute one recorded on a lost battle of the Wars of the Roses. Just need to get around to editing it, I filmed it a while back, comments like this give me the inspiration to keep going with it! Thanks :)

    • @naomisherred166
      @naomisherred166 4 роки тому +4

      Yes I'd absolutely love longer ones too! I watch all these videos as they're brilliantly researched and presented very well 😊

    • @mowvu
      @mowvu 3 роки тому

      @@TheUntoldPast seriously dude, all your work on both channels is top drawer.

    • @macabeo
      @macabeo Рік тому

      You shall adore GOD only

  • @normansmith8184
    @normansmith8184 4 роки тому +92

    having been broken on the rack he climbed a ladder. Erm,

    • @formhubfar
      @formhubfar 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah :-p

    • @Gamble661
      @Gamble661 4 роки тому +9

      Exactly! If his joints had all be pulled apart I doubt he'd be able to crawl let alone climb a ladder!

    • @spitzkopflarry159
      @spitzkopflarry159 4 роки тому +3

      He shouldn't even have been able to hold the pen for the signature

    • @agerven
      @agerven 4 роки тому +4

      You do seem to have a point. Although I once severely dislocated my elbow, I was still rather capable of using the full arm, drinking coffee, picking up things and more of such activities. So it might have been plausible ...

    • @buckplug2423
      @buckplug2423 3 роки тому +5

      It would've been incredibly painful, but people that were tortured are ready to do some very hard things just to avoid further suffering.

  • @BronchoGillespie
    @BronchoGillespie 3 роки тому +52

    He’d get a 12 month suspended sentence and £125 court costs these days.

  • @davidmurray5399
    @davidmurray5399 3 роки тому +28

    If I had been one of the co-conspirators, I'd been on a boat to anywhere as soon as I'd heard that Guido was in irons. Being drawn and quartered is a very unpleasant way to go.

    • @williamdoyle2063
      @williamdoyle2063 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah. I must admit if I were one of the people who was involved in the plot, I wonder if a conversation with one of my fellow conspirators would have gone "Have you heard? They have Guido in the Tower of London?", and me replying "No worries, blokes solid as a rock, he wont talk" whilst also thinking "Spain is quite nice this time of year"

  • @언니서한
    @언니서한 4 роки тому +18

    I love this channel! I've learnt so much. Thank you!

  • @garyhuart7042
    @garyhuart7042 3 роки тому +81

    He chose bonfire night hoping that people would be out partying and he wouldnt get noticed

  • @magpieeuc4846
    @magpieeuc4846 3 роки тому +73

    Who is old enough, to remember "a penny for the guy" I used to make bank doing this as a kid.

    • @thomashamilton8125
      @thomashamilton8125 3 роки тому +2

      Hell yeah.
      Lived east London
      As a kid and everyone
      Gave us money
      Good time...

    • @kirstiehiorns2702
      @kirstiehiorns2702 3 роки тому

      i remember penny for guy. i thought he burnt at the stake thus the burning and fireworks. however this kind of stinking disciplin belongs to the strutting christian church and their ear crushing rules. including sexual repression .. guilt and all that is anti freedom
      its almost as if the misery brought pleasure to those who were not allowed to be healthy and free of guilt. so lets get violent with slightest squeak of rebellion

    • @jimdavis762
      @jimdavis762 3 роки тому +1

      Yep ,I was bought up in Basildon and remember making guys

    • @ShakemeisterS64
      @ShakemeisterS64 3 роки тому

      Penny for the guy! Haha, I remember a Friday night going out on the piss, about 17 years old or so, and some young lads asked for penny for the guy. My mate gave them a penny, literally 1 penny, the smallest unit of UK money, and then snatched the guy and chucked it over the bridge and into the canal. I think being dropped on his head as a kid might have had something to do with it.

    • @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz
      @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Місяць тому

      I remember that, and I'm not even English. I was an American kid living in England.

  • @joyfulmindstudio
    @joyfulmindstudio 3 роки тому +5

    I just have to comment that the way you handle these topics is astounding to me, as an American observing in horror the devolution of media under the control of American-led social media companies, including the one on whose platform you are offering these videos.
    The fact that you provide fairly complete historical context for understanding the social and political environments in which the various events you cover took place; and then minimize the embedded potential for brutal sensationalism by relying on carefully curated historical photos, drawings, and silent video clips, maintaining your even voiceover throughout-these things make you stand apart from anything else I’ve seen on the general topic of our ancestors’ barbarity, anywhere else on UA-cam or Facebook or other smaller social media platforms. It’s almost as though you’ve deigned to slum around with the rest of the creators in your category, to show them how it can and should be done.
    I would hope “the eyes in the sky,” so to speak, would recognize this kind of quality in your work and, if they wish to salvage their own reputations and restore the integrity of their platforms before they end up being burned down like Guy Fawkes’ Parliament almost was, reward it and promote it and the very few other channels like it, as examples of social media fulfilling its promise.

  • @neoxx47
    @neoxx47 2 роки тому +15

    my father works in law, and he’s been in the tower of london many times; he’s seen the official documents from the guy fawkes case. it’s amazing.

    • @MrToddling
      @MrToddling 2 роки тому +1

      You ain’t gotta lie to kick it, bro

    • @neoxx47
      @neoxx47 2 роки тому

      @@MrToddling this isnt a lie which is the funniest bit, when people say these things it doesn’t mean im lying… goofy reply 💀

  • @ianbuchanan3839
    @ianbuchanan3839 3 роки тому +71

    Man captured in his attempt to murder hundreds of people: "but it was after his capture this story took a darker turn"

  • @jasonladd6400
    @jasonladd6400 2 роки тому +55

    RIP Fawkes. A man of the true faith.

  • @laszlokaestner5766
    @laszlokaestner5766 4 роки тому +45

    My understanding is that by the time Fawkes gave up the names of his fellow conspirators they had already been discovered by the authorities using other means.

    • @End_Domestic_Violence
      @End_Domestic_Violence 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah, they shoulda used a VPN😆

    • @macsmiffy2197
      @macsmiffy2197 3 роки тому

      Evidence exists which implies Robert Cecil knew about the plot weeks before Guido Fawkes was discovered. Also, it’s never been explained how Fawkes got hold of the gunpowder, which was controlled by the state and kept in the Tower of London. Conspiracy may not have been wholly on the side of the catholics.

  • @stephengorman3361
    @stephengorman3361 4 роки тому +89

    Boxes of matches were NOT even invented during the time of Guy Fawkes.

    • @johnhorse5551
      @johnhorse5551 4 роки тому +13

      1827 was the dawn of the match

    • @diegestive4167
      @diegestive4167 4 роки тому +7

      Used a zippo or clipper

    • @jamesmcbeth4463
      @jamesmcbeth4463 4 роки тому +15

      He had a Bic

    • @whereswaldo5740
      @whereswaldo5740 3 роки тому

      They could have been lucifers.
      Where you rubbed a chemical coated stick in the fold of some sandpaper.

    • @grindeyyyyy
      @grindeyyyyy 3 роки тому

      The lighter was invented before matches

  • @nonamenogame6276
    @nonamenogame6276 2 роки тому +34

    We’ve never need a guy fawkes so badly.

  • @ChromePyramid
    @ChromePyramid 2 роки тому +10

    Torture is so ridiculous not because it was barbaric but because even someone who was undisputedly guilty could likely be forced to admit to things they never even did just to make the pain stop now imagine the person is innocent

  • @alessiodecarolis
    @alessiodecarolis 3 роки тому +47

    I read that the king had attended Fawke's execution, and was so sick that ordered that the others condemned had to be only hanged, without any needless torture

    • @paulietv2162
      @paulietv2162 3 роки тому +3

      Yeah, this is a widespread fallacy which seems to be spread by 21st century snowflakes applying their own modern sensitivities to 16th century executions. People have spread similar nonsense about the execution of Anthony Babington.

    • @jakerojas341
      @jakerojas341 3 роки тому +1

      @@paulietv2162 lmao you got it

    • @kirstiehiorns2702
      @kirstiehiorns2702 2 роки тому +1

      ha ha ha..order some terrible torture and then winge about it. i felt sick..it was horrible. those torturers desperate for money. its your dirt folks not the poor victim. you will get it in hell for your sheer brutal insensitivity. dont care what the accused did.NO ONE deserves to die like these people did.

    • @dylhemsley9458
      @dylhemsley9458 Рік тому +2

      You are confusing the Gunpowder Plot with the Babington Plot which took place during the reign of Elizabeth I, Guy Fawkes was actually the last of the conspirators to die.

  • @imhollywood101
    @imhollywood101 4 роки тому +13

    Bro your channel is gonna blow up!!! Like in a good way. Like getting massive amounts of exposure. Not literally blow up. Let's be clear on this.

    • @TheUntoldPast
      @TheUntoldPast  4 роки тому +4

      Lets hope so mate! Got plenty of exciting things coming up!

    • @IAmAnEvilTaco
      @IAmAnEvilTaco 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah the algorithm found him. I got a random recommendation. He’s about to.

  • @dane1234abc1
    @dane1234abc1 3 роки тому +107

    The title should be “torture and execution,” not “execution and torture.”

    • @TheHippyHoppyHippo
      @TheHippyHoppyHippo 3 роки тому

      Correct.

    • @الداعية-22
      @الداعية-22 3 роки тому +5

      Whats the damn difference

    • @tonyr9487
      @tonyr9487 3 роки тому +3

      @@الداعية-22 can't torture a dead man. Well you can try but what would the point be bar experimentation or sadism?

    • @dane1234abc1
      @dane1234abc1 3 роки тому +3

      @@الداعية-22 The "damn" difference it is that you can torture someone before they are executed, but you can't torture someone after they have been executed.

    • @aureliogj7966
      @aureliogj7966 3 роки тому +1

      This is the most fascinating discussion.

  • @jimc12
    @jimc12 3 роки тому +9

    It annoys the shit out of me when these narrators use the up and down oscillating voice. Up up up, down down down. Up up up up up, down down down down down.

  • @jeromedavid7944
    @jeromedavid7944 3 роки тому +7

    It's amazing how drastically history could so radically be altered by a mere explosion or two....Valkyrie comes to mind as well!

    • @kathleenhartnellharper7234
      @kathleenhartnellharper7234 3 роки тому

      Think about how history has been changed by assassins. Arch duke Ferdinand= WW1- Attempt on Lenin puts Stalin in power- Kennedy/ Lincoln changes the course of America, and on and on.

  • @lueymeteora1410
    @lueymeteora1410 4 роки тому +29

    My God!
    The more I heard, the more I felt Fawkes' actions to be validated. A ruling power that is so brutally barbaric towards beaten prisoners is deserving of any and all violence towards them.

    • @DracRummins
      @DracRummins 4 роки тому +1

      He tried to blow up the Royal Family. What would your response be if someone tried to blow up your family? Bare in mind things were a bit different back then as well.

    • @lueymeteora1410
      @lueymeteora1410 4 роки тому

      @@DracRummins Oh yeah, after the fact...the ruling family had to send a message otherwise they'd get swamped by a thousand and One disgruntled peassants.
      Fear motivates us to do horrendous things
      It still does not, however, make them any less horrendous..

    • @sirheatbag4024
      @sirheatbag4024 4 роки тому +1

      Murder, bigotry and religious persecution put them in power. They are the colonizers as well.

    • @Konoronn
      @Konoronn 3 роки тому +6

      The entire world was a cruel, barbarous place in those days. This was nothing special; it was ordinary and expected.

    • @RS-zp1cf
      @RS-zp1cf 2 роки тому

      Agreed

  • @Graeme726
    @Graeme726 3 роки тому +13

    Why were people so brutal back then, weren't they so religious and god fearing as well, so what happened to thou shall not kill and the rest of the 10 commandments, unbelievable that in human history it really isn't that long ago

    • @lok777
      @lok777 3 роки тому

      Yeah, no genocides in the last 30 or so years. Doing alot better.

    • @Graeme726
      @Graeme726 3 роки тому

      @@lok777 I was talking more about the developed countries where these methods were used, such as Britain, France, Spain etc I know there is places in Africa and the middle east still stuck in the middle ages

    • @andypac7
      @andypac7 3 роки тому

      The actual commandment is thou shalt not commit murder. If it was thou shalt not kill the Bible (et al) wouldn't condone eating animals.

    • @Graeme726
      @Graeme726 3 роки тому

      @DeafGhostbuster I'm talking about the torture used back then, not sure hung, drawn and quartered and the rack is still being used these days

    • @popeyefreeze2541
      @popeyefreeze2541 6 днів тому

      Yeah religious people tend to do horrible things because they think that god allows them to

  • @noneofyourbizness
    @noneofyourbizness 3 роки тому +6

    7:00 how did a man with dislocated arms and legs climb a scaffold/gallows ladder in order to be hanged ? it is literally impossible to do.

    • @adam_p99
      @adam_p99 2 роки тому

      He died a few months after the initial torture so he may have been able to?

  • @SteveF1967
    @SteveF1967 4 роки тому +67

    If he had been broken on the rack he definitely did not climb up a scaffold.

    • @peterherrington3300
      @peterherrington3300 4 роки тому +6

      Let's re write all the history books cos a stupid person on UA-cam disagrees. . . . .

    • @robinwitting2023
      @robinwitting2023 4 роки тому +6

      Just what I thought; he'd barely be able to walk surely, never mind scale a ladder? I bet the executioners had their butts kicked for bodging things up. Had he succeeded there might even have been a statue of him outside parliament today and people might be burning effigies of King James I on bonfire night. Only quizzing things here, by the way. Robin Witting

    • @roland20002000
      @roland20002000 4 роки тому +2

      @@peterherrington3300 Well it's a good point. The fact is if Fawkes had been broken on the rack he would not be walking any where. So either he caved early when being tortured on the rack or he did not climb the ladder and quickly jump off. As is my understanding he would not climb a ladder at all because the whole point in the hanging part was to not allow the person to die. So it is ore likely the nose would be placed around some ones neck and they would be hosted into the air and then lowered again before they had the chance to die.

    • @peterherrington3300
      @peterherrington3300 4 роки тому +3

      @@roland20002000
      Debating a very clearly documented and world famous event , 415 years after it happened is not on my list of things to do today . 👍

    • @roland20002000
      @roland20002000 4 роки тому +3

      @@peterherrington3300 I can wait. I can't do tomorrow night as I want to watch the shit kick off in America.

  • @TheMakrichmond
    @TheMakrichmond 4 роки тому +191

    Last honest man to enter the Houses of Parliament

    • @Tyr933
      @Tyr933 4 роки тому +7

      Haha so said John lydon👌👍✌️

    • @superancientmariner1394
      @superancientmariner1394 4 роки тому

      Somebody been Watching Bill Callaghan lol

    • @johnelrick8945
      @johnelrick8945 4 роки тому +1

      A Catholic supremacist "honest"? You're sadly deluded... Oh, it was just a cynical "joke"? HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa

    • @gerryhouska2859
      @gerryhouska2859 4 роки тому

      Likely the first as well.

    • @keegan773
      @keegan773 4 роки тому

      Try and say something original.

  • @victorsanchez5336
    @victorsanchez5336 4 роки тому +64

    Guy Fawkes, the last person to enter parliament with honest intent.

    • @silverfletcher2560
      @silverfletcher2560 3 роки тому +3

      But the honest man intended to blow up the Parlament with all people inside. So much for that!

    • @xanderathome
      @xanderathome 3 роки тому

      @@silverfletcher2560
      But he snook in

    • @coreyjwingate
      @coreyjwingate 3 роки тому +1

      @@silverfletcher2560 its the only language oppressive rule understands.

  • @catherinereilly9191
    @catherinereilly9191 3 роки тому +20

    Today THEY would be called serial killers but how they could have slept at night is beyond me

    • @Prometheushighaf
      @Prometheushighaf 3 роки тому +7

      Many people who follow religions do unspeakable acts of violence for their Gods.
      A serial killer is something different as they don't follow a faith.

    • @goopguy548
      @goopguy548 3 роки тому

      No I'm pretty sure terrorists still get killed today, it's based to kill terrorists

    • @DB-yf9zj
      @DB-yf9zj 3 роки тому

      They would not have been serial killers. Different animal. They would have been mass murderers.

    • @Dermot2927
      @Dermot2927 3 роки тому

      Yes, "mass killer" rather than serial killer. "Serial" implies a series of consecutive, separate murders rather than one event.

    • @adam_p99
      @adam_p99 2 роки тому

      Serial killers have to murder 3 people in separate cases to be defined as such.

  • @Lobos222
    @Lobos222 4 роки тому +23

    *IQ2000: Say all the names of people you think were the closest allies of your enemy.*

  • @Isabel-wx3mo
    @Isabel-wx3mo 3 роки тому +6

    This is brilliant, informative and well put together. Thank you.

  • @Poseidon_43
    @Poseidon_43 3 роки тому +21

    You literally have to lack empathy to carry out these tortures like man :o

  • @ledon26656
    @ledon26656 3 роки тому +1

    720p, non-HD resolution? What is this 2004?

  • @chumslick2628
    @chumslick2628 2 роки тому +5

    I’m curious about the “matches” in his pocket.. as matches weren’t invented until 1680 by, Robert Boyle and not commercially available until 1827 by, John Walker.

    • @LG-kl3co
      @LG-kl3co 2 роки тому

      When its a 16 years old narrator....things get overlooked :+)

  • @nimascolari1508
    @nimascolari1508 2 роки тому +5

    Imagine had he succeeded. This is the only man in Parliament's history to have a pure mind and heart.

  • @chrisrodwell8548
    @chrisrodwell8548 2 роки тому +2

    "Allegedly even with a box of matches in his pocket"
    Unlikely. Matches were invented in 1826

  • @bhughes1986
    @bhughes1986 3 роки тому

    Didn’t skip one second of this video. Thanks for making - subbed.

  • @cw9007
    @cw9007 4 роки тому +7

    'Drawn' refers to disembowelment- drawing of the viscera, not being drawn on the hurdle.

    • @raymondjones8
      @raymondjones8 3 роки тому

      Not being drawn by an artist either then🤔

  • @donmerrigan2362
    @donmerrigan2362 3 роки тому +6

    The problem with the details of these stories is that people tend to only share those bits of info that serve their purpose. Whether those details happen to be true or not.

  • @x-omnistar-x9602
    @x-omnistar-x9602 3 роки тому +4

    Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot.
    I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
    - V for Vendetta

  • @colinsbane
    @colinsbane 3 роки тому +1

    There was a Celtic festival for Samhain, celebrating the beginning of winter, where a wicker man, a large effigy made from willow twigs, would be burnt. (This festival occurred at the time of the second New Moon after the autumnal equinox, since the Celtic calendar was lunar based.) Some sources claim that humans were also sacrificed in these effigies. These rituals were outlawed with the advent of Christianity and replaced by All Souls Day (or All Hallows) on 1 November (and of course by All Hallows Eve on 31 October). It is probable that Guy Fawkes Day on 5 November was the perfect excuse to revive this ancient fire tradition, where a 'Guy' was substituted for the Wicker Man.

  • @olly5764
    @olly5764 4 роки тому +7

    Two of the Gun powder plotters were caught near my native Wolverhampton, and executed in the town at High Green, what is now Queen's Square.

  • @georgespurlock5547
    @georgespurlock5547 3 роки тому +22

    How does one climb a ladder after months of torture so brutal that his fingers cant sign his own name?

    • @robrfoster
      @robrfoster 3 роки тому +3

      Yea, this is confusing. I think that perhaps the exact torture wasn’t as bad as described. There’s no way he could even stand let alone be on a ladder if he was stretched that hard on the rack. Also, I noticed all the drawings of the horses show them being dragged in what looks like little sleds with hay. Not saying this would be fun in any way but it’s a lot different than being dragged on the ground. Again, not saying any of this wasn’t horrible torture but I think some things are being exaggerated.

  • @johnmore4155
    @johnmore4155 19 днів тому +3

    Soon to be made into a tv series by the BBC. Who'd have thought Guy Fawkes and the King James 1st were black? - amazing

  • @diligafifunouno641
    @diligafifunouno641 3 роки тому +1

    Absolutely incredible!! Well put together.

  • @Pieceoreece
    @Pieceoreece 2 роки тому +7

    Legend has it, Guy said one thing when he was caught:
    "For Fawkes sake!"

  • @anxeletemccolin699
    @anxeletemccolin699 3 роки тому +43

    Nobody expected the English Anglican Inquisition

    • @Rosie6857
      @Rosie6857 3 роки тому +1

      Brilliant, mate.

    • @DB-yf9zj
      @DB-yf9zj 3 роки тому

      That’s easy when God is on your side.

    • @alessiodecarolis
      @alessiodecarolis 3 роки тому

      In that yrs it was a common way to deal with criminals, traitors and such, only from late 18th century the various states started to gradually humanizing judiciary system, don't forget that, contrary to other nations in UK until 1840 you could've been hanged for minor/petty crimes.

    • @ShakemeisterS64
      @ShakemeisterS64 3 роки тому

      No one expects the English Anglican Inquisition!

  • @trevorhoward7682
    @trevorhoward7682 3 роки тому +3

    This voiceover sounded like a teenage student reading from scribbled notes in front of his bored classmates. I was already well aware of the details of the Gunpowder Plot, having studied it at school and since. This effort is a very effective cure for insomnia.

  • @thomhardcastle9897
    @thomhardcastle9897 3 роки тому +3

    0:38 - "He was literally caught red-handed." -- Please can people try to finally understand the meaning of the word "literally". If Fawkes was literally caught red-handed, it would mean that he was caught with hands that were red. This kind of lack of understanding of the English language literally gets on my tits.

  • @suecrowhurst4393
    @suecrowhurst4393 4 роки тому +31

    So so cruel back then , I know guy fawkes, was a bad guy, but the torture, was bloody awful

    • @MothaLuva
      @MothaLuva 4 роки тому +8

      You knew Guy Fawkes..? How is he a bad guy?

    • @IAmAnEvilTaco
      @IAmAnEvilTaco 4 роки тому +2

      Lol I see what you did. He was yuuge in his circle. Many people say you were like him, but he was a bad guy. You’re not, everyone says it. They all love you, look at the crowds.

    • @matthewprice2626
      @matthewprice2626 4 роки тому +6

      Guy Fawkes would have been a hero today.

    • @mtop6867
      @mtop6867 4 роки тому +1

      One person's bomber is another's civil engineer?

    • @stephenhearn4582
      @stephenhearn4582 4 роки тому

      It was to send a message

  • @ianbuchanan3839
    @ianbuchanan3839 3 роки тому +96

    Narrator: This was religiously motived
    Guy fawkes: I wish to blow up the SCOTTISH King, and all of his SCOTTISH laws back to SCOTLAND

    • @MerleUnchained
      @MerleUnchained 3 роки тому +19

      The Scots were radically Protestant, that’s why.

    • @liverpoolscottish6430
      @liverpoolscottish6430 3 роки тому +13

      You have completely missed the point of the gunpowder plot- it was entirely about religion- NOT Scotland.

    • @bigwig2659
      @bigwig2659 3 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @ianbuchanan3839
      @ianbuchanan3839 3 роки тому +1

      @@liverpoolscottish6430 I didn't miss the point I was observing a curio in the narrative

    • @michaelcassady1289
      @michaelcassady1289 3 роки тому +5

      Not religion, false religion. It is false religion that causes war and murder.

  • @FrLawRE
    @FrLawRE 4 роки тому +7

    0:41>0:42 "A box of matches in his pocket?" I hardly think so. In 1605, the year of the Gunpowder Plot, self strike matches did not exist. The first modern, self-igniting match was invented in 1805 by Jean Chancel, assistant to Professor Louis Jacques Thénard of Paris.

    • @david-lt9wj
      @david-lt9wj 4 роки тому

      Well he had a packet of lucky strike...

    • @willembester4969
      @willembester4969 4 роки тому +4

      Would have been a flint. Most people today don't know what it was, so I assume ( at my own peril), that the narrator stated it as matches for the sake of brevity.

    • @FrLawRE
      @FrLawRE 4 роки тому

      @@willembester4969 Yes you are probably right about that.

    • @Krzyszczynski
      @Krzyszczynski 4 роки тому +4

      I think it's "slow matches" that are being referred to. Lengths of cord treated with certain chemicals that burned slowly after being ignited from a tinder box. Fawkes would have set several of them as fuses, giving him time to escape before the explosion.

    • @david-lt9wj
      @david-lt9wj 4 роки тому +2

      Well probably the same ignition system that they used for cannons....and muskets...

  • @aanda4358
    @aanda4358 3 роки тому

    Extremely interesting. Love your channel!

  • @scottlewisparsons9551
    @scottlewisparsons9551 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you for another great video.

  • @damonwandebrch2467
    @damonwandebrch2467 3 роки тому +4

    “There is safety, in mindfulness”
    -Fawkes
    -Fallout 3

  • @lloydjenkins7931
    @lloydjenkins7931 4 роки тому +66

    The only man ever to enter parliament with good intentions

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 роки тому +1

      Boring b'stard.

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 роки тому

      @Brotherhood of Nod Well-said. Jenkins will be a typical far-right nutjob.

    • @dannyhernandez265
      @dannyhernandez265 3 роки тому

      Brotherhood of Nod agreed. However the targets that Fawkes attempted to kill are no better. Perhaps they were more deserving of death... it would have been a quick one, unlike the death they wanted to give him.

    • @Dermot2927
      @Dermot2927 3 роки тому

      @@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Not necessarily. It's an old gag, quoted by about a dozen people (at latest count) in these comments.

    • @heraldeventsandfilms5970
      @heraldeventsandfilms5970 3 роки тому

      @@Dermot2927 People of no wit nor imagination.

  • @anonymousanonymous5327
    @anonymousanonymous5327 20 днів тому +1

    so he was put on the rack and stretched so his bones dislocated, and muscles tore..... yet he managed to climb a ladder to jump to his death???

  • @ubahfly5409
    @ubahfly5409 4 роки тому +47

    This Guy had zero Fawkes left to give.

  • @borgsun9986
    @borgsun9986 3 роки тому +18

    Guy Fawkes , only person who knew how to deal with politicians and parliament I am proud of him.

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 3 роки тому +8

    Peculiar. I saw in a TV documentary that he failed to kill himself with his jump and was absolutely fully conscious for the rest of the execution.

    • @dylhemsley9458
      @dylhemsley9458 Рік тому

      No Fawkes was dead. Robert Keyes, one of the men executed in the same batch as Fawkes tried to jump and break his neck. However, the rope broke.

  • @ДингирДмитриевич
    @ДингирДмитриевич 2 місяці тому

    If not Francis Thresham,who wrote the a letter to Lord Monteagle on October 10,Guy Fawkes was arrested thanks to Frances Cecil and her uncle Thomas Cecil at 6:37 a.m.,if Robert Catesby knew that the Parliament of England would have settled at 7:30 a.m. on November 5,1605.

  • @SWTORROLEPLAY1998
    @SWTORROLEPLAY1998 3 роки тому +13

    Tbh we actually need him our politicians are corrupt scum

  • @parrot849
    @parrot849 3 роки тому +5

    Interesting video, thanks. Society’s’ perspectives have certainly changed.
    Now there are wide spread concerns that execution of criminals, if carried out in a country at all; by means of lethal injection (basically putting someone permanently to sleep) is, “Cruel and Unusual Punishment” and there for by that legal definition, unconstitutional, and should be prohibited.
    On the other hand our weapons of war have evolved into much greater lethality and efficiency....

  • @olivergorman3419
    @olivergorman3419 4 роки тому +19

    Not dissimilar to what they are doing to Assange right now, with the full complicity of our media slime.

  • @SamAllenchannel
    @SamAllenchannel 3 роки тому +1

    Great video! However, the current Palace of Westminster shown in the video was not built until the 1840s. Only Westminster hall would have been there during the time of Guy Fawkes.

  • @frankdodd3355
    @frankdodd3355 4 роки тому +8

    It's amazing to me that the slang use of "Hey, look at that guy" is because of this moment in long ago history. I must use the word guy a hundred times a week.

    • @danwiley7936
      @danwiley7936 3 роки тому +3

      Aren't you glad his name wasn't Peckerhead?

    • @michaelkelly339
      @michaelkelly339 3 роки тому

      Stranger still considering he signed himself "Guido"

    • @frankdodd3355
      @frankdodd3355 3 роки тому

      @@danwiley7936 Actually, no. That would be hilarious if a part of polite everyday discourse was saying things like, "Hey, what's that peckerhead doing over there?" Actually, considering where discourse is going in this country, we're probably only a few years away from that reality.

  • @stevejeffries1603
    @stevejeffries1603 3 роки тому +18

    Poor bloke
    I appreciate what he was about to do was not good but the torture he recieved was totally and absolutely awful

    • @jackcloud4728
      @jackcloud4728 2 роки тому

      Yeah but your forgetting he knew the consequences and did it regardless. And was not good is an understatement, high treason is beyond not good

    • @rowanmelton7643
      @rowanmelton7643 2 роки тому

      @@jackcloud4728 The man was a hero. Bootlicker

    • @plugmanjohnson7456
      @plugmanjohnson7456 2 роки тому

      @@jackcloud4728 bootlicker

    • @plugmanjohnson7456
      @plugmanjohnson7456 2 роки тому

      @@jackcloud4728 monarchy is dope n all but if your king is a P.O.S its your moral obligation to overthrow them.

  • @ExplorationRandomDestination
    @ExplorationRandomDestination 2 роки тому +4

    The elite of this world are worse then you could ever imagine.

  • @spartan-ls3zz
    @spartan-ls3zz 3 роки тому

    how could he climb the steps when he had 2 days on the rack dosnt add up does it

  • @time4anewme
    @time4anewme 3 роки тому +14

    Unwittingly watched this on 31st January not knowing it was the exact date of Guy Fawkes execution 😬