Thomas Bates
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Thomas Bates was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
A contemporary engraving of Bates, by Crispijn van de Passe.
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
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