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Metropolis Celebrates Bonfire Night with Sacred Pageantry
The piece notes a broad metropolitan turnout in favor of the Protestant church on Guy Fawkes Day with children chanting hymns and processions. It laments papist suspicions while describing allegorical lessons and the traditional effigies and smoking “ Guys” as a covert Rome satire, asserting Protestant resilience in the kingdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Fawkes
Fawkes
Rome
Board of Guardians of
City of London Union
George Simmons
Brown
Norwood Establishment
Simmons
Michael Gibbs
Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge
Norwood
Church of England
Dr. Burder
Hackney
Scott
W. H. Mills