Fawkes's fellow students included John Wright and his brother Christopher ( both later involved with Fawkes in the Gunpowder plot ) and Oswald Tesimond, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton, who became priests ( the latter executed in 1601 ).

It was discovered in time with eight conspirators executed, including Guy Fawkes, who became the iconic evil traitor in English lore.

Important support for his work also came from Walter Ramsden Fawkes, of Farnley Hall, near Otley in Yorkshire, who became a close friend of the artist.

Despite the ease with which Catesby seems to have inspired his fellow conspirators, that it was he and not Fawkes ( today most often associated with 5 November ) who devised what became known as the Gunpowder Plot, has largely been forgotten.

On 5 November, people in England make bonfires, set off fireworks and eat toffee apples in commemoration of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot centred around Guy Fawkes, which became an annual event after The Thanksgiving Act of 1606 was passed.

Towards the end of the 18th century reports appear of children begging for money with effigies of Guy Fawkes and 5 November gradually became known as Guy Fawkes Day.

Fawkes lated held the curacy of Croydon, where he came to the notice of Archbishop Thomas Herring ; he became vicar of Orpington, Kent.

On my first Guy Fawkes Day here, I found Catholics as well as non-Catholics celebrating with the traditional fireworks and bonfires, and was told that most Englishmen either do not know or are not concerned with the historical significance of the day.

Traditionally, in the weeks running up to the 5th, children made " guys "— effigies supposedly of Fawkes — usually made from old clothes stuffed with newspaper, and fitted with a grotesque mask, to be burnt on the 5 November bonfire.

In March 2002 workers cataloguing archives of diarist John Evelyn at the British Library found a box containing a number of gunpowder samples, including a compressed bar with a note in Evelyn's handwriting stating that it had belonged to Guy Fawkes.

* The story of Guy Fawkes and The Gunpowder Plot from the BBC, with archive video clips

In addition the increasing popularity of Guy Fawkes Night ( 5 November ) from 1605 on saw Halloween become eclipsed in Britain with the notable exception of Scotland.

* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

Guy Fawkes, an English soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605.

He was one of the collaborators with Wally Fawkes on the long running cartoon strip Flook.

The Guys would mass on the edge of the town from daybreak on Guy Fawkes Night, wearing masks or bizarre disguises and armed with clubs and lighted torches.

His friendship with Walter Ramsden Fawkes made him a regular visitor to Farnley Hall, two miles from Otley.

The practice continued into the 20th century, with children treating Haman as a sort of " Guy Fawkes.

Turner used to stay with his friend Walter Fawkes at Farnley Hall on the opposite side of the valley to the Chevin.

On Sunday 20 May in the well-to-do Strand district of London, Catesby met with Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy and Guy Fawkes, at an inn called the Duck and Drake.

Nicholls mentions that a week earlier — on the same day that Monteagle received his letter — Catesby was at White Webbs with Fawkes, to discuss kidnapping Prince Henry rather than Princess Elizabeth.

Randol Fawkes ( the lone Labour MP ) voted to sit with the PLP, and Sir Alvin Braynan, an independent MP, agreed to become Speaker, enabling Pindling to form the first black government in Bahamian history.

Ainsworth followed Jack Sheppard with two novels: Guy Fawkes and The Tower of London.

He was guarding a pile of wood not far from 36 barrels of gunpowder with which Fawkes intended to blow up Parliament House the following day and cause the destruction, as James put it, " not only ... of my person, nor of my wife and posterity also, but of the whole body of the State in general ".

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.

* 1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. 1570 )

* Britain and New Zealand celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot, on November 5.

* November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area ( records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day ).

* January 27 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators for plotting against Parliament and James I of England begins.

When Guy Fawkes was arrested for his role in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 he was tortured until he revealed all he knew about the plot.

Gunpowder Plotter Guy Fawkes is celebrated as a local hero during the carnival season, including a grand illuminated procession through Bridgwater town centre, which culminates in the Squibbing.

* The lantern that Gunpowder Plot conspiracist Guy Fawkes carried in 1605

In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries, bonfires are lit on Guy Fawkes Night a yearly celebration held on the evening of 5 November to mark the failure of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to destroy the House of Lords in London.

However, their most famous duty is to ' ceremonially ' search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster prior to the State Opening of Parliament, a tradition that dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament, in modern times officers from the Metropolitan Police carry out a more sophisticated additional search.

The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned in the house.

Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.

Most notably in 1605, the Gunpowder Plotters stayed at the Red Lion Inn ( reputed to be the private residence now called ' Guy Fawkes House ') in Dunchurch awaiting news of Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

He was judge in the trial of Guy Fawkes following the Gunpowder Plot.

It was in this capacity that he tried Guy Fawkes, having been one of the Members of Parliament at the time of the Gunpowder Plot.

Young produced the group's 1990 EP Demolition Plot J-7, but displayed hostility toward then-current drummer Jason Fawkes.

Young did not play any drums for the Demolition Plot J-7 sessions, and expressed jealousy towards Fawkes, openly mocking the new drummer.