He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Johann Jacob Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.

Several authors speculate about Catesby's movements as Elizabeth's health grew worse ; he was probably among those " principal papists " imprisoned by a government fearing open rebellion, and in March 1603 he may have sent Christopher Wright to Spain to see if Philip III would continue to support English Catholics after Elizabeth's death.

" Before he died, fellow conspirator Ambrose Rookwood said that he " loved and respected him as his own life ", while Catesby's friend, Father John Gerard, claimed he was " respected in all companies of such as are counted there swordsmen or men of action ", and that " few were in the opinions of most men preferred before him and he increased much his acquaintance and friends.

Robert Keyes was admitted to the group in October 1604, and charged with looking after Catesby's Lambeth house, where the gunpowder and other supplies were to be stored.

Catesby's party, ignorant of what was happening in London, paused at Dunstable when his horse lost a shoe.

Catesby's original preparatory drawings for " Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands " are in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, and a selection was exhibited in USA, Japan and at the Queen's Gallery, London, in 1997-1998.

Catesbaea, lily-thorn, a genus of thorny shrubs belonging to Rubiaceae ( madder family ) from the West Indies and southeastern USA was named after Catesby by Linnaeus in 1753 in his " Species plantarum " ( volume 1, pp 108-109 ), based on plate 100 in volume 2 of Catesby's " Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands ".

The existence of Catesby's Gunpowder Plot was revealed to him by Father Oswald Tesimond on 24 July 1605, but as the information was received under the seal of the confessional, he felt that Canon law prevented him from speaking out.

The manor's central location was also more convenient to the houses of the Catesby's many friends and relations.

* 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.

On December 14, around 1, 200 British sailors and Royal Marines under Captain Nicholas Lockyer set out to attack Catesby's force.

Lockyer captured Catesby's vessels in a brief engagement known as the Battle of Lake Borgne.

Those either studying at university or wishing to take public office could not do so without first swearing the Oath of Supremacy, an act which would have compromised Catesby's Catholic faith.

When Catesby's father died in 1598, his estates at Ashby St Ledgers were left to his wife, while Catesby and his family remained at Chastleton.

Sir Thomas Tresham helped pay some of Catesby's fine, following which Catesby sold his estate at Chastleton.

" Garnet's protestations prompted Catesby's next reply, " I am not bound to take knowledge by you of the Pope's will.

" Soon after, the Jesuit priest Oswald Tesimond told Garnet that while taking Catesby's confession he had learned of the plot.

Garnet and Catesby met for a third time on 24 July at White Webbs in Enfield Chase, the home of Catesby's wealthy relative Anne Vaux, and a house long suspected by the government of harbouring Jesuit priests.

Catesby's answer, " The necessity of the Catholics such that it must needs be done ", in Fraser's opinion demonstrates his unwavering view on the matter, held at least since his first meeting with Thomas Wintour early in 1604.

At about 6: 00 pm that evening they reached Catesby's family home at Ashby St Ledgers, where his mother and Robert Wintour were staying.

Placed on " the side of the Parliament House ", Catesby's head became one of the " sightless spectators of their own failure.

In Catesby's view however, James had reneged on his promises.

It passed down the male line to Robert Catesby's father, Sir William Catesby, who managed to hold on to the property in spite of massive debts caused by recusancy fines and years of imprisonment for his stubborn adherence to the Roman Catholic faith.

His meeting in June 1603 with Robert Catesby, a religious zealot similarly unimpressed with the new royal dynasty, led the following year to his joining Catesby's conspiracy to kill the king and his ministers by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder.

This was the site of his outdoor botanical garden that was renowned during his lifetime and rivaled Hortus Cliffortianus, the garden of his friend and sponsor to Linnaeus.

The old garden of Rudbeck and Linnaeus was largely left to decay, but was reconstructed in the years between 1918 and 1923 according to the specifications of Linnaeus in his work Hortus Upsaliensis from 1745.

He was visited by Leibniz, William III of Orange and his wife, the Amsterdam burgemeester ( the mayor ) Johan Huydecoper, the latter very interested in collecting and growing plants for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and all gazed at the tiny creatures.

Tenga, its Malayalam name, was used in the detailed description of coconut found in Itinerario by Ludovico di Varthema published in 1510 and also in the later Hortus Indicus Malabaricus.

In it can be found the medieval " Hortus sanitatis " of the Schola Medica Salernitana, that was the first European " Orto Botanico " ( botanic garden ).

The garden, the Hortus Palatinus, was constructed by Elizabeth's former tutor, Salomon de Caus and was dubbed the " Eighth Wonder of the World " by contemporaries.

He was responsible for the construction of the famous Hortus Palatinus gardens in Heidelberg.

Hortus Botanicus was founded in 1638 by the city to serve as an herb garden for doctors and apothecaries.

Hortus Botanicus's initial collection was amassed during the 17th century through plants and seeds brought back by traders of the East India Company ( VOC ) for use as medicines and for their possibilities for commerce.

In 1679 he was appointed as a forensic advisor to the Amsterdam courts and in 1685 as a professor in botany in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, where he worked with Jan and Caspar Commelin.

The enclosed garden as an allegory for paradise or a " lost Eden " was termed the Hortus Conclusus.

When the Portuguese arrived in India at Kozhikode ( Calicut ) on the Malabar Coast ( Kerala ) in 1498, the Malayalam name chakka was recorded by Hendrik van Rheede ( 1678 – 1703 ) in the Hortus Malabaricus, vol.

Platanus × acerifolia was first formally described in the botanical literature by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in his 1789 work Hortus Kewensis as a variety of Platanus orientalis.

Its seed-exchange program was established following a visit in 1682 from Paul Hermann, a Dutch botanist connected with the Hortus Botanicus Leiden and has lasted till the present day.

A second and enlarged edition of the Hortus was brought out in 1810-1813 by his eldest son, William Townsend Aiton.

However, Reincken himself stated ( on the title page of Hortus musicus ) that his birthplace was Deventer, and no records were found there to support Mattheson's claim.

At any rate, Bach was evidently deeply impressed by Reincken's music, arranging several of the works from Hortus musicus ( as BWV 954, 965 and 966 ).