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	The Gunpowder Plot
		Catesby, who is said to have behaved with great courage and determination, escaped the fate of Essex with a ruinous fine, from which his estates never recovered.
		Catesby, then, had been acquainted with Garnet since the close of Elizabeth's reign, and probably since his conversation, for he was a visitor at the house of the Vauxes and Brookesbys, with whom Garnet lived as chaplain.
		Catesby's answer calmed the Father's fears for the time, but still at their next meeting Garnet thought well to read to him the pope's prohibition of violent courses, which Blackwell was about to publish.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/gunpowder_plot.html (4041 words)

	Robert Catesby - LoveToKnow 1911
		of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth in Warwickshire, a prominent recusant who was a descendant of Sir William Catesby, speaker of the House of Commons in 1484, executed by Henry VII.
		On receiving the news of the letter on the 28th, Catesby exhibited extraordinary coolness and fortitude, and refused to abandon the attempt, hoping that the government might despise the warning and still neglect precautions; and his confidence was strengthened by Fawkes's report that nothing in the cellar had been touched or tampered with.
		He had married Catherine, daughter of Thomas Leigh of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, and left one son, Robert, who inherited that part of the family estate which had been settled on Catesby's mother and was untouched by the attainder, and who is said to have married a daughter of Thomas Percy.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Catesby (588 words)

	Biographies: Robert Catesby
		Robert's father, Sir William Catesby, was a conscientious adherent to the Catholic faith, a prime supporter of the Jesuit mission and one of the leaders of the catholic cause, for which he suffered greatly.
		Catesby, due to his minor role in the affair, escaped a treason conviction and possible execution, but was fined the large sum of 4,000 marks.
		Catesby felt that "the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy", and that the Plot was a morally justifiable act of self-defence against the oppressive rule of a tyrant.
	www.britannia.com /history/r-catesby.html (1989 words)

	Profile of Robert Catesby
		Robert's father, Sir William Catesby, was a conscientious adherent to the Catholic faith, a prime supporter of the Jesuit mission and one of the leaders of the catholic cause [2], for which he suffered greatly.
		Catesby, due to his minor role in the affair, escaped a treason conviction and possible execution, but was fined the large sum of 4,000 marks [1].
		Catesby felt that "the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy" [16], and that the Plot was a morally justifiable act of self-defence against the oppressive rule of a tyrant.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /people/rcatesby.htm (2099 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		Robert Catesby was the only surviving son of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth and Anne Throckmorton of Coughton, his elder brother William having died in infancy.
		Catesby had initially held hope of improvement under James I, due to the promises earlier made by James to Thomas Percy of such, James' support of the Earl of Essex against Cecil, and the subsequent favour shown to both Essex's supporters and prominent Catholics at the beginning of the reign.
		Robert Catesby died at the raid on Holbeache House on November 8th, 1605; he and Thomas Percy both being shot apparently with a single bullet.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /catesby.asp (2040 words)

	Robert Catesby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Catesby (1573 – November 18, 1605), born in Lapworth, Warwickshire, or possibly in Northamptonshire, to a strongly Roman Catholic family, was the leader of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators (the most notable of whom was Guy Fawkes) who endeavoured to blow up the Houses of Parliament in England in 1605.
		Before the Gunpowder Plot, Catesby was involved with Robert Devereux in the failed attempt to remove Elizabeth I from power in 1601.
		Catesby's father, Sir William Catesby, had spent a significant part of his life imprisoned for offences related to his Catholic faith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Catesby (215 words)

	Robert Catesby: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The plotters, Robert Catesby, Thomas Wintour, Guido Fawkes, Robert Wintour, Christopher...Ambrose Rokewood, Robert Keyes, Sir Everard Digby, Francis Tresham and Catesby 's servant, Thomas...
		Robert Catesby (1573- 8 November 1605), was a member of a group of Catholic conspirators (the most notable of whom was Guy Fawkes) who endeavoured to blow up the Houses of Parliament in England in 1605.
		Unfortunately for Catesby, the Gunpowder Plot was discovered and the barrels of gunpowder defused before any damage was done.
	www.encyclopedian.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ro/Robert-Catesby.html (265 words)

	GUY FAWKES and his day: Cast Of Characters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert was born in 1573 and it seems conformed to the state religion.
		Catesby already suspect by the government was imprisoned in 1596 as a possible suspect in action leading to the illness of the queen.
		Catesby possessed a wild and reckless nature and was a popular man. He was known as a good swordsman and was a part of elite court circles.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/Factory/8434/c.html (280 words)

	Robert Catesby (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Robert Catesby was the only surviving son of Sir William Catesby of Lapworth and Anne Throckmorton of Coughton.
		Catesby felt that "the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy," and that the Plot was a morally justifiable act of self-defense against the oppressive rule of a tyrant.
		Catesby's exact role and actions in the proceedings of the Gunpowder Plot, and the theories and arguments surrounding him are too voluminous to go into here, and the story is well known.
	www.cockecatesby.homestead.com.cob-web.org:8888 /files/robertcatesby.htm (1011 words)

	Catesby Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mark Catesby was a famed naturalist in the 1700s, rivaling Audubon (who came a century later).
		Clifton Catesby, Esq., was a Justice of the Peace of Northampton in1641
		Catesby Jones (of Mount Sion, Northumberland County) was mentioned in this collection of correspondence from the late 1700s as is Meriwether Jones (of Newcastle, Hanover County, Virginia) and several other Jones's.
	cssvirginia.org /tyson/catesby/catesby.htm (190 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot: Parliament & Treason 1605 - People
		Catesby's head was later cut off and taken to London, to be stuck on the roof of the House of Commons.
		Robert did not remain with the other plotters at Holbeach for their final stand and was only captured in January 1606 at Hagley, Worcestershire.
		Robert Keyes was the son of a Protestant clergyman though his mother came from a Catholic family, the Tyrwhitts, from Lincolnshire.
	www.show.me.uk /gunpowderplot/adults_people_p.htm (2540 words)

	The Gunpowder Plotters - biographical summaries and their roles in the Plot.
		Born at Lapworth, he was a long-standing retainer to Robert Catesby and the Catesby family, and proved to be invaluable to the conspirators, being totally loyal and reliable.
		Catesby's house in Lambeth was the first headquarters of the Gunpowder Plot and was used for the initial storage of munitions.
		Catesby died during the raid on Holbeche House in Staffordshire (the home of Stephen Littleton) on November 8, 1605, after escaping from London early on the morning of Tuesday, November 5th.
	www.gunpowderplot.co.uk /plotters.html (495 words)

	Britannia: Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire
		Although Robert Catesby's primary residence until his death was at Chastleton in Oxfordshire, he spent a great deal of time with his mother at Ashby St. Ledgers.
		As Robert's own wife, Catherine Leigh, also died in 1598, Robert quite often left his surviving son Robert in his mother's care, and the property's central location was also more convenient to the houses of his many friends and relations.
		Catesby's mother and son had no idea he was riding hard towards them in a desperate attempt to salvage what he could from the ruins of his failed attempt on the Houses of Parliament.
	www.britannia.com /history/ashbystl.html (1296 words)

	Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night
		Robert Catesby was the charismatic leader of the group of conspirators.
		Guy was not part of the close knit circle of Catesby's small group, but he had spent time in the Netherlands and in Spain where he had fought, many said very well, as a mercenary.
		Some, however, including the ringleader Robert Catesby, were killed in a siege within a few days of the failed attempt.
	www.bonefire.org /guy/conspirators.php (593 words)

	Untitled
		Catesby hiked hundreds of miles, mostly alone, fighting off illness and infection, and eluding warring Indians, all the while producing delicate and brilliantly colored watercolors of wildlife unknown to Europeans.
		Catesby's champion was William Sherard, a wealthy and well-connected Oxford botanist.
		Catesby didn't choose his pairings casually--he sometimes dissected birds to study their stomach contents before choosing which berries or blossoms were suitable for a particular portrait.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA02/daniels/catesby/smithsonian.html (2148 words)

	Catesby ap Roger Jones, Commander, 1821-1877
		Catesby ap Roger Jones's uniform is on display in Columbus, GA. The (burned-out) hull of the C.S.S. Chattahoochee, commanded by Jones is there.
		Catesby's father, Roger Jones, was the Adjutant General of the United States from 1824 until his death in 1852.
		Catesby writes in his journal of performing a play at a vacation spot where his father and President Tyler were.
	www.cssvirginia.org /tyson/jones/carj.htm (981 words)

	The Guy Fawkes Bonfire 2002 :: Who Is Guy Fawkes :: Part 1
		Catesby becomes involved with the English effort to recruit a English Catholic force to fight with Archduke Albert in the Netherlands.Catesby is able to visit Catholic households without penalty.
		Catesby recruits for financial assistance Robert Winter and John Grant.Catesby servant, Thomas Bates, is recruited as a loyal follower, as the comings and goings of his master were beginning to alarm him.
		Catesby meets in late October with an important admiral and it seems was being watched by Cecil's men.
	www.lexi.net /bonfire/part1.php (2048 words)

	Click on Your Favorite Plotter and find out more about them
		Robert Winter was born in 1565 or 1657 and died on January 30, 1606.
		Robert was the oldest son of George Wintour whose house was Huddington Cour.
		Robert was described by Gerard as one of the smartest and strongest and wealthiest men in Worcestershire.
	www.bcpl.net /~cbladey/guy/html/plotmap.html (1648 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes - Bonfire Night - 5 November
		Catesby was joined by his friends Thomas Wintour, Jack Wright and Thomas Percy at the Duck and Drake, in the Strand.
		Robert Keyes, Robert Wintour, John Grant, Thomas Bates (Catesby’s servant) and Kit Wright were all relatives, by blood or marriage, to one or more of the original five conspirators.
		Catesby, The Wrights and Percy died from their wounds and Wintour, Rookwood and Grant were captured.
	www.scotlandinargentina.com.ar /guy_fawkesing.htm (1067 words)

	Combe Abbey
		Catesby, the originator of the Gunpowder Plot, was intimately connected with families in these counties.
		Robert Catesby, the descendant of the "Cat," was one of the greatest bigots that ever lived He was the friend of Garnet, the principal of the Jesuits in England, and had been concerned in all the plots against Elizabeth.
		Percy, Catesby, and some others were killed, and Sir Everard Digby and the rest made prisoners, and doomed to suffer the dreadful death of traitors.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/combe_abbey.html (1643 words)

	Treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catesby had recruited him for his expertise with gunpowder.
		Their plan, devised by Catesby, was staggeringly ambitious: to blow up the Houses of Parliament during its next opening ceremony.
		The next morning, the sheriff of Worcestershire and a posse of 200 armed men surrounded the conspirators: Catesby and three others were killed; the rest were taken to the Tower.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/treason/story.html (899 words)

	Sir Thomas Percy
		During one conversation with Catesby, Percy burst out that he would kill the King, but the cooler Catesby told him "No, Tom, thou shalt not adventure to small purpose, but if thou wilt be a traitour, thou shalt be to some great advantage".
		Catesby had already identified a suitable house adjacent to the House of Lords and close by the Parliament Stairs, a landing on the Thames almost directly opposite Catesby's house in Lambeth.
		As they took up their defensive position in the courtyard, Catesby and Percy were felled by a single shot from the musket of John Streete of Worcester, who later claimed compensation from the government for his marksmanship.
	footprints.org /8-100121.htm (3021 words)

	Robert Catesby
		Robert Catesby, the son of Sir William Catesby, was born in Lapworth, Warwickshire, in 1573.
		1 Catesby was involved with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in the failed attempt to remove
		Lord Monteagle became suspicious and passed the letter to Robert Cecil, the king's chief minister.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /STUcatesby.htm (538 words)

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		Most Catesby births and deaths are based on Sasfrid de Catesby, known alive in 1086, and generally are those living outside America.
		Nelson Catesby Gagnet was born 02 Nov 2005 in New Orleans, LA. He is the 7th great grandson of Elizabeth “Betty” Cocke.
		Harrison Dieter Catesby was born 27 Feb 2006 in Brisbane, Australia.
	www.cockecatesby.homestead.com /files/chronicle0206.doc (1261 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : Historic Events : The Gunpowder plot
		The Gunpowder plot was conceived by a certain Robert Catesby from Warwickshire.
		Catesby was a Catholic whose plan was to blow up Parliament during its opening ceremony on 5th November 1605, when the king would be present in the Palace of Westminster.
		Catesby gathered together a group of Catholic fanatics, one of whom was Guy Fawlkes from Yorkshire.
	www.saburchill.com /history/events/004.html (318 words)

	Robert KEYES (Sir)
		Robert Keyes was the son of Edward Keyes, Rector of Stavely in North Derbyshire, and his wife, a dau.
		Through his mother's family, Robert was related to the staunchly Catholic Babthorpes of Osgodby (who had a household of fifty two, including two full-time Jesuit priests), and the Mallory and Ingleby families of Ripon, and therefore was kin to John and Christopher Wright of Plowland, and to Robert and Thomas Wintour of Huddington Court.
		His job was to take charge of Robert Catesby's home at Lambeth, where the gunpowder and other necessary items were to be temporarily stored.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/RobertKeyes(Sir).htm (1130 words)

	Blithering Antiquity, March 2003
		Catesby was the ringleader of the famous Gunpowder Plot.
		Meanwhile back in England, another Catholic of high birth named Robert Catesby was involved in all kinds of schemes to overthrow the Church of England, Queen Elizabeth and her successor James I, who took the throne upon her death in 1603.
		Catesby was killed by soldiers when he resisted arrest.
	www.hornpipe.com /ba/ba3.htm (708 words)

	Excalibur - Sword in the Stone
		England was ruled by a Protestant regime, and in 1605 a group of oppressed Catholic landowners hatched a plot to kill the king, James I, during the state opening of parliament on 5 November.
		The plan, conceived by the Midland Catholics Robert Catesby and Thomas Wyntour, was to blow up the Houses of Parliament with dozens of barrels of gunpowder.
		He was furious, however, to discover that Robert Catesby had been shot dead and the knowledge of the stone's whereabouts had died with him.
	www.crystalinks.com /excalibur.html (1903 words)

	The Stuarts - The Gunpowder Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A small group of Catholics, Robert Catesby, Guido (Guy) Fawkes, Thomas Winter, John Wright and Thomas Percy decided to blow up the King on the State opening of Parliament.
		Catesby and Percy and two others were killed resisting arrest.
		Robert Catesby, Guido (Guy) Fawkes, Thomas Winter, John Wright and Thomas Percy were known to be Catholics.
	www.historyonthenet.com /Stuarts/gunpowder_plot.htm (518 words)

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