Word info

Catesby

Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A civil parish in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England.

An unincorporated community in Ellis County, Oklahoma, United States

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Examples

Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. Source: Internet

Anne Vaux was related to Catesby, and to most of the other plotters. Source: Internet

Bates left the group and travelled to Coughton Court to deliver a letter from Catesby, to Father Garnet and the other priests, informing them of what had transpired, and asking for their help in raising an army. Source: Internet

Garnet answered that such actions could often be excused, but according to his own account later admonished Catesby during a second meeting in July in Essex, showing him a letter from the pope which forbade rebellion. Source: Internet

Executions Print of members of the Gunpowder Plot being hanged, drawn and quartered Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords. Source: Internet

At that point, Littleton left, but Thomas arrived at the house to find Catesby alive, albeit scorched. Source: Internet

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