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Gunpowder Plot is in 1603-1610 James I.
In October 1605 the Gunpowder Plot sought to blow up Parliament, with King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland (age 39) and his MPs. The conspirators included Robert Catesby (age 33), Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu (age 31) and Edward Stourton 10th Baron Stourton (age 50).
Around October 1605 Edward Stourton 10th Baron Stourton (age 50) was imprisoned in the Tower of London [Map] for having received a letter from his cousin and brother-in-law Francis Tresham telling him not to attend Parliament. Nothing was proved against Edward and it emerged that several other Catholic peers had received similar warnings. He was released without charge.
On 26th October 1605 William Parker 4th Baron Monteagle 14th Baron Marshal 13th Baron Morley (age 30) received a letter warning of the Gunpowder Plot and showed it to Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury (age 42) who then showed it to the King at Hoxton.
On 4th November 1605 William Parker 4th Baron Monteagle 14th Baron Marshal 13th Baron Morley (age 30) searched the basement with Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk (age 44) and discovered the gunpowder and explosives at Westminster Palace [Map].
On 8th November 1605 Robert Catesby (age 33) and Thomas Percy (age 45) were killed, reportedly by the same musket ball, at Holbeche House, Staffordshire, the home of Stephen Lyttelton (age 30).
On 27th January 1606 Everard Digby (age 28), Robert Wintour (age 38), John Grant (age 36), Thomas Bates (age 39), Ambrose Rookwood (age 28), Thomas Wintour (age 35), Robert Keyes (age 41) and Guy Fawkes (age 35) were tried at Westminster Hall [Map]. Only Everard Digby pleaded guilty. All were found guilty
On 30th January 1606 Everard Digby (age 28), Robert Wintour (age 38), John Grant (age 36) and Thomas Bates (age 39) were hanged, drawn and quartered at St Paul's Cathedral Churchyard [Map] for their involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.
On 31st January 1606 Ambrose Rookwood (age 28), Thomas Wintour (age 35) and Robert Keyes (age 41) were hanged, drawn and quartered at the Old Palace Yard, Westminster Palace for their involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.
Guy Fawkes (age 35) avoided the full punishment when he jumped, or fell, climbing the ladder to the scaffold, fatally breaking his neck. His body was subsequently quartered.,
Ambrose Rookwood: Around 1578 he was born. On 27th January 1606 Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, John Grant, Thomas Bates, Ambrose Rookwood, Thomas Wintour, Robert Keyes and Guy Fawkes were tried at Westminster Hall pleaded guilty. All were found guilty
Thomas Wintour: In 1571 (possibly 1572) he was born.
Guy Fawkes: On 13th April 1570 he was born in Stonegate York. He was baptised on 16th April 1570 at St Michael le Belfrey Church, York [Map].
On 7th April 1606 Humphrey Lyttelton (age 44) was hanged, drawn and quartered at Red Hill, Worcester for his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.
On 19th October 1592 Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu (age 18) inherited Cowdray House [Map]. During his tenure Guy Fawkes was briefly employed as a footman and, as a consequence, Anthony Maria Browne 2nd Viscount Montagu was briefly imprisoned for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.
On 30th December 1605 Francis Tresham died whilst imprisoned at the Tower of London [Map] for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. His brother Lewis Tresham 1st Baronet (age 30) inherited Rushton Hall.
Nugae Antiquitae Volume 1 Page 371. [6th January 1606]. Lord Harington (age 66) to Sir John Harington, at Bathe.
Much respected Cosin,
Our great care and honourable charge, entrusted to us by the Kings Majesty, hath been matter of so much concern, that it almost effaced the attention to kyn or friend. With Gods assistance we hope to do our Lady Elizabeth (age 9)1 such service as is due to her princely endowments and natural abilities; both which appear the sweet dawning of future comfort to her royal father. The late divilish conspiracy2 did much disturb this part. The King hath got at much truth from the mouths of the crew themselves; for guilt hath no peace, nor can there be guilt like theirs. One hath confessed that he had many meetings at Bathe about this hellish design; you will do his Majesty unspeakable kindness, to watch in your neighbourhood, and give such intelligence as may furnish inquiry. We know of some evil-minded catholics in the west, whom the prince of darkness hath in alliance; God ward them from such evil, or seeking it to others. Ancient history doth shew the heart of man in divers forms: we read of states overthrown by craft and subtilty; of Princes slain in field and closet; of strange machinations devised by the natural bent of evil hearts; but no page can tell such a horrid tale as this. Well doth the wise man say, that "the wicked imagineth mischeif in secret." What, dear cosin, coud be more secret or more wicked? A wise King and wise council of a nation at one blow destroyed in such wise as was now intended, is not matchable. It shameth Caligula, Erostratus, Nero, and Domitian, who were but each of them fly-killers to these wretches. Can it be said that religion did suggest these designs; did the spirit of truth work in these mens hearts? How much ia their guilt encreasd by such protesting! I cannot but mark the just appointment of Heaven in the punishing of these desperate men, who fled to our neighbourhood; you hear they sufferd themselves by the very means they had contrived for others. A barrel of gunpowder was set on fire during the time that the house was besieged, and killed two or three on the spot; so just is the vengeance of God! I have seen some of the chief [Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy], and think they bear an evil mark in their foreheads, for more terrible countenances never were looked upon. His Majesty did sometime desire to see these men, but said he felt himself sorely appaird at the thought, and so forbare. I am not yet recoverd from the fever occasioned by these disturbances. I went with Sir Fulk Grevile (age 51)3 to alarm the neighbourhood, and surprize the villains, who came to Holbach; was out five days in peril of death, in fear for the great charge I left at home. Wynter4 hath confessed their design to surprize the Princess at my house, if their wickedness had taken place at London. Some of them say, she woud have been proclaimed Queen. Her Highness doth often say, "What a Queen shoud I have been by this means? I had rather have been with my royal father in the Parliament-house, than wear his crown on such condition." This poor lady hath not yet recoverd the surprize, and is very ili and troubled.
Note 1. Daughter of James I (age 39), afterward Queen of Bohemia.
Note 2. The gunpowder-plot.
Note 3. Afterward Lord Brooke, who was "stabbed to death with a knife by hisservant, Sept. 1, 1628." Smith's Obituary in Bibl. Sloan.
Note 4. There were two Winters concerned ip this conspiracy, Thomas and Robert (age 38).
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On 9th January 1606 Stephen Lyttelton (age 31) and Robert Wintour (age 38) were arrested at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire for their part in the Gunpowder Plot after a cook named John Finwood had informed the authorities. Stephen Lyttelton was executed sometime thereafter at Stafford.