Identifier: islandstorychild00mars (find matches)
Title: An island story; a child's history of England
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth), 1867-1941
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Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company (Edinburgh, Printed by T. and A. Constable
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ies gone with me. Guy Fawkes was taken to the Tower. In the cruelmanner of those days he was tortured to make him tellthe names of the others who were with him in the plot.But Guy Fawkes was very brave, although he was wrong,and he would not tell. The others, seeing that part of their plot had failed,hoped still to succeed in gaining possession of thePrincess Elizabeth. So they hastily rode to the countryhouse where she was living. But part of the gunpowder which they took withthem was set on fire and exploded by accident. It hurtsome, and frightened all of them, for they thought thatit was a punishment sent upon them because of whatthey had intended to do to others. The Roman Catholics in the country did not rise tohelp the conspirators as they had expected, and soon allhope of success was lost. The chief of the conspiratorswere seized, and were put to death, along with GuyFawkes. After this the Protestants hated the Roman Catholicsmore than ever, and their lives were made very hard.
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stern men with drawn swords closed in upon HIM THE STORY OF GUY FAWKES 357 There was great rejoicing at the discovery of the plot.Bells rang, and bonfires blazed, and even now, after threehundred years, the day is not forgotten. On the 5th ofNovember people still have fireworks, and bonfires onwhich they burn a figure made of straw and old clothes,which is meant to represent Guy Fawkes. CHAPTER LXXV JAMES VI. OF SCOTLAND, I. OF ENGLAND—THE STORYOF THE MAYFLOWER When Henry viii. broke away from the Church of Romehe did not make much change in the services or in theruUng of the Church. He merely said that the Pope hadnothing to do with the Church in England, and he com-manded the services to be read in English, instead ofLatin. But by degrees many Protestants began to thinkthat the Church of England was too like the Church ofRome. They wanted to have no prayer book at all.They wanted to have very simple services and very simplechurches. These people were called Puritans. Theywere very

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