Ambrose Rookwood
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Ambrose Rookwood was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic sovereign. Rookwood was born into a wealthy family of Catholic recu
Early 19th-century portrait of Rookwood
Coldham Hall
Everard Digby
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Sir Everard Digby was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household and married a Protestant, Di
Portrait of Digby
Guy Fawkes House, formerly known as the Red Lion, where Digby was installed on 4 November 1605
Print of members of the Gunpowder Plot being hanged, drawn and quartered