Catesby


Robert, 1573–1605, English Catholic conspirator, leader in Gunpowder Plot.
Contemporary Examples

Life Imitates “Patriots” David Frum May 24, 2012
Life Imitates Patriots: Inaugural Version David Frum January 19, 2013

Historical Examples

Guy Fawkes William Harrison Ainsworth
Fox’s Book of Martyrs John Foxe
Guy Fawkes William Harrison Ainsworth
The Last Of The Barons, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Life of a Conspirator Thomas Longueville
It Might Have Been Emily Sarah Holt
Guy Fawkes William Harrison Ainsworth
It Might Have Been Emily Sarah Holt

noun
Robert. 1573–1605, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (1605): killed while resisting arrest

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