THE COUGHTON CONSPIRACY

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	Remember! Remember! The fifth of November: gunpowder, treason and plot.
	We may have forgotten the truth and the reason, but rhyme we certainly have not.

Not all of the land agreed on religion, Henry the eighth took all churches not hearts.
And so by the year of sixteen and hundred, Some noblemen thus stood apart.
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Guy Fawkes we know as the evil agressor, who tried to blow parliament up but was caught
With fuses in pocket near gunpowder barrels,  BUT who was it paid for the plot?
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What little we know of the schemers of treason, is fuserlier Guido did not act alone
The seeds of sedition and rebel dissention,  By Robert Catesby were sown.
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Tortured and tried then hung drawn and quartred, each head of the eight proclaimed on a stake
They'd known all along of planing and timing,   that trial was nought but a fake.

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I see no reason, why gunpowder treason, should ever, be, forgot.

http://cresby.com 	© Cresby Brown and Chris Evans.  Aug 1997

Coughton (pronounced cof or cow - take your pick) Court nr Alcester Warwickshire was the 
midland focus for the Catholic uprising of in the wake of the Reformation and then the Armada.  
On November 4/5th 1605 the conspirators' wives waited here for news of the Plot.