Fawkes
FAUX, or VAUX, GUY, an English conspirator; born in York, England, in 1570. He enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands, where he was found by Winter, one of the anti- Protestant conspirators, and with him returned to England, in 1604, after agreeing to assist in the Gunpowder Plot. He passed under the name of Johnson, as servant to Thomas Percy, another conspirator, and was placed to lodge in the house next to the Parliament House. After collecting the necessary combustibles, Fawkes worked his way into the coal cellar under the House of Lords, and after storing it with gunpowder, etc., was appointed to the dangerous duty of firing the mine. The government having had timely information of the detestable plot, the House of Lords and its cellar was searched, and Fawkes found secreted amid some casks of gunpowder, Nov. 5, 1605. He was at once arrested, soon after tried, and Jan. 31, 1606, suffered death at Westminster with several of the other conspirators.
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