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(387) Brought before the king and council he when the chilling hand of death set its boldly avowed his purpose, but not even impress upon his frame, the chains still the rack could extort the names of his held a prominent part in his thoughts. associates till they had appeared in arms.
As he lay calmly on his dying-bed at The failure of the plot was complete. Valladolid; after having by his will dis- Fawkes was arraigned, condemned and posed of all his worldly goods, made proexecuted, as were seven of his confede- vision for perpetuating his name through rates, while others were tried separately. his son Diego, and commended to that This conspiracy led to additional penal eldest son, his second wife, Beatrice Enristatutes against the Roman Catholics. quez and her son Fernando, he seems to The anniversary of the plot, November have devoted his last hours to prayer and 5th, was long celebrated in England and devotion. But the chains were ever beour own New England by the boys car- fore him, and as his son Diego knelt by rying about an effigy of Guy Fawkes, the side of his bed, the great discoverer which was finally burned. It was till pointed to his chains, and, as his last recently a legal holiday in England. injunction, required them to be interred The boys and girls of England have with him in his coffin, as if to rise on the great sport on the fifth of November, the last day with this proof against his anniversary of the Guy Fawkes plot. The enemies. engraving accompanying this history of Thus died Columbus, May 20, 1506, in the conspiracy shows you two school-boys his seventieth year. Diego faithfully pre preparing for the celebration. It is not a carried out his father's wishes, and the remarkably handsome figure which they admiral was interred with his chains in have made to represent the notorious Mr. the Convent of St. Francis. Fawkes, and probably they think that a handsome figure would not be suited to the occasion.
In 1513 his remains were transferred to Seville, thence in 1536 to St. Domingo, and when African rule began, they were removed from that island to Havana, where they now repose.
