Together, Richard and Buckingham spread the rumour that Edward's two sons are illegitimate, and therefore have no rightful claim to the throne ; they are assisted by Catesby, Ratcliffe, and Lovell.

Wintour introduced Fawkes to Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne.

Harrison Ainsworth, in his 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, wrote about the local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned by Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby in Ordsall Hall's Star Chamber.

Robert Catesby ( b. in or after 1572 – 8 November 1605 ), was the leader of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Several of the conspirators expressed worries about fellow Catholics who would be caught up in the planned explosion ; Percy was concerned for his patron, Northumberland, and when the young Earl of Arundel's name was mentioned Catesby suggested that a minor wound might keep him from the chamber on that day.

In an extraordinary act of bravado Catesby had planned to go hunting with James, but was warned of the betrayal by Monteagle's servant.

Late on Monday 4 November, Catesby, John Wright and Bates left for the Midlands, ready for the planned uprising.

In summer 1605 Garnet met with Robert Catesby, a religious zealot who, unknown to him, planned to kill the Protestant King James I.

Instead, without telling anyone of what Catesby planned, he wrote to his superiors in Rome and urged them to warn English Catholics against the use of force.

Criticised for his use of equivocation, which Coke called " open and broad lying and forswearing ", and attacked for not warning the authorities of what Catesby planned, he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

With the other conspirators he had recruited, Catesby also planned to incite a rebellion in the Midlands, during which James's nine-year-old daughter Princess Elizabeth would be captured, and installed as titular queen.

It was here, in the room above the Gatehouse, with its privacy from the main house and clear view of the surrounding area, that Robert Catesby, his servant Thomas Bates and the other conspirators planned a great deal of the Gunpowder Plot.

A legend states that this was the site from where Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby planned to watch the destruction of Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605.

Catesby told him of his plan to kill the king and his government by blowing up " the Parliament howse with Gunpowder ... in that place have they done us all the mischiefe, and perchance God hath designed that place for their punishment ".

Catesby and Wintour also thought that Tresham was the letter's author and threatened to kill him, but he was able to convince them otherwise.

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.

Although Thomas declined his invitation, Catesby again invited him in February the next year.

Wintour at first objected to his cousin's scheme, but Catesby, who said that " the nature of the disease required so sharp a remedy ", won him over.

For the plan to work Rookwood and his horses needed to be close to the other conspirators, and so Catesby persuaded him to rent Clopton House at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Catesby told him to rent Coughton Court near Alcester, so that he would " the better to be able to do good to the cause Elizabeth of Bohemia | Princess Elizabeth ".

The day after Tresham's recruitment, Catesby exchanged greetings in London with Fawkes's former employer, Lord Montague, and asked him " The Parliament, I think, brings your lordship up now?

To keep his mother ignorant of their situation, Catesby sent a message asking Wintour to meet him at the edge of the town.

Its leader Robert Catesby asked him to provide a large sum of money and the use of Rushton Hall, but Tresham apparently provided neither, instead giving a much smaller amount of money to fellow plotter Thomas Wintour.

Mark Catesby gave him plants from North America and the West Indies from an expedition funded by Sloane.

Rookwood claimed that he had been drawn into the plot by Catesby, " whom he loved above any worldy man ".

Several assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5 November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Sir Robert Catesby, which caused more antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.

Illustration of a male by Mark Catesby and George Edwards ( naturalist ) | George Edwards, 1754

Since Linnaeus never saw an herbarium specimen ( if there ever was one ) of Plumier's Magnolia and had only his description and a rather poor picture at hand, he must have taken it for the same plant which was described by Catesby in his 1730 Natural History of Carolina.

Preventing access to the lakes was an American flotilla, commanded by Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones, consisting of five gunboats.

The first, by R. Catesby Taliaferro of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, was included in volume 16 of the Great Books of the Western World ; the second, by G. J. Toomer, Ptolemy's Almagest in 1998 ;

* Letters from Juliet Lady Catesby to her friend, Lady Henrietta Campley – 1760 ( a translation from the original French by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, 1759 )

The rebellion was a failure however, and the wounded Catesby was captured, imprisoned at the Wood Street Counter, and fined 4, 000 marks ( equivalent to over £ 6 million as of 2008 ) by Elizabeth I.

Two months later Catesby recruited his servant, Thomas Bates, into the plot, after the latter accidentally became aware of it, and by March 1605 three more were admitted: Thomas Wintour's brother Robert, John Grant and John Wright's brother Christopher.

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 and the others arrived at Huddington at about 2: 00 pm, and were met by Thomas Wintour.

Catesby and Percy were reportedly both dropped by a single lucky shot, while standing near the door.

The name oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. palliatus, described as eating oysters.

# Conics: Books I – III translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro, published by Green Lion Press ( ISBN 1-888009-05-5 ).

Translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro.

The name oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. palliatus, described as eating oysters.

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 ".