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3 unusual facts about Thomas Bates


Thomas Bates

They met Robert Wintour (brother to Thomas) at Ashby St Ledgers, and Digby at Dunchurch.

They rode toward Dunchurch, on horses sent from Everard Digby by prearrangement.

Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer to Robert Catesby, who from 1604 planned to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the English throne.



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