And as you might expect, Jamie learnt all about him at school today - most notably the punishment meted out to Mr F and his co-conspirators.
To summarise, the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham proclaimed them guilty of high treason. The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both." Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air."
Actually, according to Jamie, Mrs Buckton didn't tell Red Class any of this.
She just said that Mr Fawkes and his friends were very naughty boys for trying to blow up the building where Mummy and Daddy used to work.
But they invented bonfires.
