…is described in an act of the Parliment of England, dated 1606, as…
"An Invention so inhuman, barbarous and cruel, as the like was never before heard of."
The act called for commemoration of the Gunpowder Plot, an attempt by one Guido Fawkes and sundry accomplices to blow up the House of Parliment when the King and other royal persons were attending.
Although the law was repealed in 1859, the anniversary is still celebrated as Guy Fawkes Night and it's today, November 5.
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