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 Roman Catholic conspirators, and with him returned to England in 1604, after agreeing to a ist in the Gunpowder Plot. After collecting the nece ary combustibles, Fawkes worked his way into the coal cellar under the House of Lerds, 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. The detection of this plot is celebrated to this day in England by bonfires.