The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605 (71 page)

Thomas Habington of Hindlip and his wife Mary; she was the sister of Lord Monteagle and local tradition has named her as the author of the anonymous Monteagle letter.

Vestment embroidered by Helena Wintour, daughter of Robert and Gertrude, and presented by her to the Jesuits (the legend
Ora pro me Helena Wintour
can be seen at the bottom); it is still at the Jesuit college, Stonyhurst.

The Browne Brothers by Isaac Oliver: members of a leading recusant family, including Anthony, 2nd Lord Montague who for a short period employed Guy Fawkes as a footman.

Life in a recusant household, illustrated by a scene from the childhood of Mary Ward, founder of the educational religious order, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was a niece of the conspirators, Jack and Kit Wright; on the left can be seen Margaret Garnet, sister of Father Henry Garnet, who became a nun.

Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire; seat of Sir Thomas Tresham, the great Catholic patriarch and builder who was the father of the conspirator Francis Tresham.

Hindlip House in Worcestershire: a celebrated Catholic safe house, with over a dozen hiding-places for priests, where Father Garnet was captured; it was burnt down in the early nineteenth century.

Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, rented by Anne Vaux as a refuge for priests; Nicholas Owen, known as ‘Little John’, constructed hiding-places here, using the moat, the levels of a sewer and secret turret trapdoors.

Coughton Court, Warwickshire, home of the leading recusant family of Throckmorton, which was rented by Sir Everard Digby, at the time of the Gunpowder Plot, allegedly for hunting.

Huddington Court, Worcestershire; home of Robert and Gertrude Wintour, it contains hiding-places probably constructed by Nicholas Owen.

Map of Westminster, showing Parliament and the old House of Lords, beneath which gunpowder and firewood were stored.

Tower of London,
c.
1615 by Van Meer; it was both a royal residence and a prison. Guy Fawkes, together with other conspirators and priests, was held and tortured here.