A Tall Stranger in Hoxton
John Bossy, 3 July 1997
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
by Antonia Fraser.
Weidenfeld, 347 pp., £20, August 1996,9780297813484 Show More
by Antonia Fraser.
Weidenfeld, 347 pp., £20, August 1996,
“... force. One of the Catholics, a rich gentleman from the Midlands and charismatic energumen called Robert Catesby, called a meeting on 20 May at the Duck and Drake, off the Strand, the lodgings of his cousin and the disciple, Thomas Wintour. Three other men were invited: Jack Wright, a swordsman friend of Catesby’s; Thomas ... ”