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November 5th. November 6th. November 7th. "We made against them upon Thursday morning, and freshly pursued them until the next day, at which time, about twelve or one of the clock in the afternoon, we overtook them at the said Holbeche House the greatest part of their retinue and some of the better sort being dispersed and fled before our coming, whereupon and after summons and warning first given and proclamation in his Highness's name to yield and submit themselves who refusing the same, we fired some part of the house and assaulted some part of the rebellious persons left in the said house, in which assault one Mr.
On the news of this discovery the conspirators scattered, but by different roads rejoined each other in Warwickshire, whence, endeavoring to raise the country, they rode through Worcestershire, and were finally shot or taken prisoners at Holbeche in Staffordshire." Off and on, a fortnight at the end of January and beginning of February, and then again probably for a very short time in March.
By means of this letter the plot was discovered, and Guy Fawkes was arrested. The other conspirators fled to Wales, where they hoped to stir up an insurrection, but at Holbeche where they halted they were surrounded by the forces of the sheriff of Worcester.
His fifth examination, on the 8th, the last before the one taken under torture on the 9th, gives to the inquirer into the reality of the plot all that he wants to know. Probably the torture used on the 9th was that of the manacles, or hanging up by the wrists or thumbs. The principal ones were either killed or taken at Holbeche on that very day.
They passed from thence upon Thursday morning unto Hewell the Lord Windsor's house which they entered and took from thence by force great store of armour, artillery of the said Lord Windsor's, and passed that night into the county of Staffordshire unto the house of one Stephen Littleton, Gentleman, called Holbeche, about two miles distant from Stourbridge, whither we pursued, with the assistance of Sir John Foliot, Knight, Francis Ketelsby, Esquire, Humphrey Salway, Gentleman, Edmund Walsh, and Francis Conyers, Gentlemen, with few other gentlemen and the power and face of the country.
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