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Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. | Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. | ||
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With a much-diminished group of followers, Catesby made a stand at Holbeche House in Staffordshire, against a 200-strong company of armed men. He was shot, and later found dead, clutching a picture of the Virgin Mary. As a warning to others, his body was exhumed and his head exhibited outside Parliament. | With a much-diminished group of followers, Catesby made a stand at Holbeche House in Staffordshire, against a 200-strong company of armed men. He was shot, and later found dead, clutching a picture of the Virgin Mary. As a warning to others, his body was exhumed and his head exhibited outside Parliament. | ||
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