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.

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.

The locals were unsupportive ; on hearing that Catesby's party stood for " God and Country ", they replied that they were for " King James as well as God and Country ".

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.

Title page, volume two, Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1754

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 ".

Mark Catesby's New World vision ," Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0-8078-4762-3

The author and historian Antonia Fraser describes Catesby's mentality as " that of the crusader who does not hesitate to employ the sword in the cause of values which he considers are spiritual ".

" 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.

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

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.

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 " Hortus britanno-americanus ..." was published posthumously in 1763, and a second edition, entitled " Hortus Europae americanus ..." was issued in 1767.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

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

" 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.

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.

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.

The group portrait, original in conception, is known only from a preparatory sketch and copies by other hands.

The original charter specified the establishment both of the college, and of an institution called the Queen's College Grammar School, intended to be a preparatory school affiliated and governed by the college.

The 19th-century British art collector William John Bankes travelled to Spain during the Peninsular War ( 1808 – 1814 ) and acquired a copy of Las Meninas painted by Mazo, which he believed to be an original preparatory oil sketch by Velázquez — although Velázquez did not usually paint studies.

The original preparatory school, Hillstone, opened in 1883.

In 1784, Maryland granted a charter to St. John's College, into which the original preparatory school merged.

The picture was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the Marine Corps War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D. C., the original mold is located on the Marine Military Academy grounds, a private college preparatory academy located in Harlingen, Texas.

Baird's original Cambusdoon House, now a ruin, was converted to a boys ' preparatory school in the late 1920s, and the rest of the estate surrounding the cricket ground was developed for housing in the late 1930s.

The original preparatory school to Stonyhurst, Hodder Place, came into the hands of the Jesuits as part of the estate donated by alumnus Thomas Weld.

When it returned to its original ideals as a rigorous, college preparatory boarding and day school, it still retained its status as a Naval Honor School.

The original academic program of the seminary consisted of ten years of studies: five in the preparatory classical department and five in the upper division, namely, two in philosophy and three in theology.

In the late twentieth century the school became coeducational and added a nursery, kindergarten, and pre-prep school to the original preparatory school.

He made several changes to Woodward's original plans for the school, most notably Woodward's request that the school not be preparatory.

In less than ten years four folio volumes of the Chartularium appeared as follows: 1889, volume I, A. D. 1200-1286 ( xxxvi-714 pp. ), 530 original documents, with fifty-five from the preparatory period, 1163 – 1200 ; 1891, volume II, 1286-1350 ( xxiii-808 pp. ), 661 documents ; 1894, volume III, 1350-1384 ( xxxvii-777 pp. ), 520 documents ; 1897, volume IV, 1384-1452 ( xxxvi-835 pp. ), 988 documents, and two volumes of the Auctarium.