#OnThisDay in 1605, 200 men converged on Holbeach House, near Kingswinford, where
#GunpowderPlot conspirators had gathered. Refusing to surrender, plot mastermind
#RobertCatesby was shot and killed, along with co-conspirators
#ThomasPercy, and brothers Jack and Kit Wright.
ALT 'The Gunpowder Plot: the conspirators' last stand at Holbeach House'
Ernest Croft, 1892
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