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See also:FAWKES, See also:GUY (1570-1606) , See also:English " See also:gunpowder See also:plot " conspirator, son of See also:Edward Fawkes of See also:York, a member of a See also:good See also:Yorkshire See also:family and See also:advocate of the See also:archbishop of York's See also:consistory See also:court, was baptized at St See also:Michael le Belfrey at York on the 16th of See also:April 1570. His parents were Protestants, and he was educated at the See also:free school at York, where, it is said, See also:John and See also:Christopher See also:Wright and the Jesuit Tesimond See also:alias Greenway, afterwards implicated in the See also:conspiracy, were his schoolfellows. On his See also:father's See also:death in 1579 he inherited his See also:property. Soon afterwards his See also:mother married, as her second See also:husband, Dionis Baynbrigge of Scotton in Yorkshire, to which See also:place the family removed. Fawkes's stepfather was connected with many See also:Roman See also:Catholic families, and was probably a Roman Catholic himself, and Fawkes himself became a zealous adherent of the old faith. Soon after he had come of See also:age he disposed of his property, .and in 1593 went to See also:Flanders and enlisted in the See also:Spanish See also:army, assisting at the See also:capture of See also:Calais by the Spanish in 1596 and gaining some military reputation. According to Father Greenway he was " a See also:man of See also:great piety, of exemplary See also:temperance, of mild and cheerful demeanour, an • enemy of broils and disputes, a faithful friend and remarkable for his punctual attendance upon religious observances," while his society was " sought by all the most distinguished in the See also:arch-See also:duke's See also:camp for See also:nobility and virtue." He is described as " tall, with See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:hair and See also:auburn See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard."
In 1604 See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Winter, at the instance of See also:Catesby, in whose mind the gunpowder plot had now taken definite shape, introduced himself to Fawkes in Flanders, and as " a confident See also:gentleman," " best able for this business," brought him on to See also:England as assistant in the conspiracy. Shortly afterwards he was initiated into the plot, after taking an See also:oath of secrecy, See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas See also:Percy and John Wright at a See also:house behind St See also:Clement's (see GUNPOWDER PLOT and CATESBY, See also:ROBERT). Owing to the fact of his being unknown in See also:London, to his exceptional courage and coolness, and probably to his experience in the See also:wars and at sieges, the actual accomplishment of the See also:design was entrusted to Fawkes, and when the house adjoining the See also:parliament house was hired in Percy's name, he took See also:charge of it as Percy's servant, under the name of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson He acted as See also:sentinel while the others worked at the mine in See also:December 1604, probably directing their operations, and on the See also:discovery of the adjoining cellar, situated immediately beneath the House of Lords, he arranged in it the barrels of See also:gun-See also:powder, which he covered over with firewood and coals and with See also:iron bars to increase the force of the See also:explosion. When all was ready in May 16o5 Fawkes was despatched to Flanders to acquaint See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Stanley, the betrayer of See also:Deventer, and the intriguer See also:Owen with the plot. He returned inAugust and brought fresh gunpowder into the cellars to replace any which might be spoilt by See also:damp. A slow match was prepared which would give him a See also:quarter of an See also:hour in which to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from the ex-plosion. On Saturday, the 26th of See also:October, See also:Lord See also:Monteagle (q.v.) received the mysterious See also:letter which revealed the conspiracy and of which the conspirators received See also:information the following See also:day. They, nevertheless, after some hesitation, hoping that the See also:government would despise the warning, deter-See also:mined to proceed with their plans, and were encouraged in their See also:resolution by Fawkes, who visited the cellar on the 3oth and
reported that nothing had been moved or touched. He returned accordingly to his lonely and perilous See also:vigil on the 4th of See also:November. On that day the See also:earl of See also:Suffolk, as lord See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain, visited the vault, accompanied by Monteagle, remarked the quantity of faggots, and asked Fawkes, now described as " a very tall and desperate See also:fellow," who it was that rented the cellar. Percy's name, which Fawkes gave, aroused fresh suspicions and they retired to inform the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. At about ten o' See also:clock Robert Keyes brought Fawkes from Percy a See also:watch, that he might know how the anxious See also:hours were passing, and very shortly afterwards he was arrested, and the gunpowder discovered, by Thomas Knyvett, a See also:Westminster See also:magistrate. Fawkes was brought into the king's bedchamber, where the ministers had hastily assembled, at one o'clock. IIe maintained an attitude of See also:defiance and of " Roman resolution," smiled scornfully at his questioners, making no See also:secret of his intentions, replied to the king, who asked why he would kill him, that the See also:pope had excommunicated him, that " dangerous diseases require a desperate remedy," adding fiercely to the Scottish courtiers who surrounded him that " one of his See also:objects was to See also:blow back the Scots into See also:Scotland." His only regret was the failure of the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme. " He carrieth himself," writes See also:Salisbury to Sir See also:Charles See also:Cornwallis, See also:ambassador at See also:Madrid, " without any feare or perturbation ... ; under all this See also:action he is noe more dismayed, See also:nay scarce any more troubled than if he was taken for a poor See also:robbery upon the See also:highway," declaring " that he is ready to See also:die, and rather wisheth 10,000 deaths, than willingly to accuse his See also:master or any other." He refused stubbornly on the following days to give information concerning his accomplices; on the 8th he gave a narrative of the plot, but it was not till the 9th, when the fugitive conspirators had been taken at Holbeche, that See also:torture could wring from him their names. His imperfect See also:signature to his See also:confession of this date, consisting only of his See also:Christian name and written in a faint and trembling See also:hand, is probably a ghastly testimony to the severity of the torture ("per grad us ad ima ") which See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James had ordered to be applied if he would not otherwise confess and the " gentler tortures " were unavailing,—a horrible practice unrecognized by the See also:law of England, but usually employed and justified at this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in cases of See also:treason to obtain information. He was tried, together with the two Winters, John See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant, See also:Ambrose Rokewood, Robert Keyes and Thomas See also:Bates, before a See also:special See also:commission in Westminster See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall on the 27th of See also:January 1606. In this See also:case there could be no See also:defence and he was found guilty. He suffered death in See also:company with Thomas Winter, Rokewood and Keyes on the 31st, being See also:drawn on a See also:hurdle from the See also:Tower to the Parliament House, opposite which he was executed. He made a See also:short speech on the See also:scaffold, expressing his repentance, and mounted the See also:ladder last and with assistance, being weak from torture and illness. The usual barbarities practised upon him after he had been cut down from the gallows were inflicted on a See also:body from which all See also:life had already fled.
BInL1OGRAPHY.—Hilt. of England, by S. R. See also:Gardiner, vol. i.; and the same author's What Gunpowder Plot was (1897); What was the Gunpowder Plot: by J. See also:Gerard (1897); The Gunpowder Plot, by D. Jardine (1857) ; See also:Calendar of See also:State Pap. Dona. 1603–161o; State Trials, vol. ii.; Archaeologia, xii. 200; R. Winwood's Memorials; Notes and Queries, vi. See also:ser. vii. 233, viii. 136; The Fawkeses of York in the 26th See also:Century, by R. See also:Davies (185o) ; Dict. of Nat. Biog. and authorities cited there. The See also:official See also:account (untrustworthy in details) is the True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings against the See also:late most Barbarous Traitors (16o6), reprinted by See also:Bishop See also:Barlow of See also:Lincoln as The Gunpowder Treason (1679).
End of Article: FAWKES, GUY (1570-1606)
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