Now, on Wednesday, November the 6th, Father Oswald Tesimond went from Coughton, near Redditch, in Warwickshire, the house of Thomas Throckmorton, Esquire, to Huddington, in Worcestershire, the seat of Robert Winter, who had married Miss Gertrude Talbot, of Grafton. The Talbots, like the Throckmortons, were a people who happily managed to reconcile rigid adherence to the ancient Faith with stanch loyalty to their lawful Sovereign.[A] [Footnote A: I believe that the grand old Catholic family of Throckmorton still own Coughton Hall, which is twelve miles from Hindlip.] Tesimond, leaving behind him his Superior Garnet at Coughton, went, it is said, to assist the unhappy traitors with the Sacraments of their Church. But, I imagine, he found most of his hoped-for penitents, at least externally, in anything except a penitential frame of mind. This was the last occasion when Tesimond’s eyes gazed upon his old York school-fellows of happier, bygone days——the brothers John and Christopher Wright.[148] Now, to Father Tesimond, as well as to Father Oldcorne, Hindlip Hall[A] and Huddington[B] (in Worcestershire), Coughton,[C] Lapworth,[D] Clopton,[E] and Norbrook[F] (in Warwickshire), must have been thoroughly well known; for at Hindlip Hall for eight years Tesimond likewise had been formerly domesticated. Where resided either temporarily or permanently:—— [Footnote A: Thomas Abington.] [Footnote B: Robert Winter and Thomas Winter.] [Footnote C: Thomas Throckmorton.] [Footnote D: John Wright and Christopher Wright.] [Footnote E: Ambrose Rookwood.] [Footnote F: John Grant.] Dr. Gardiner’s “_History of James I._” (Longmans) contains a map showing the relative positions of these places. On Wednesday, the 6th November, Fathers Garnet and Tesimond were at Coughton. Catesby, along with Percy, John Wright, Christopher Wright, Sir Everard Digby, Ambrose Rookwood, and others, was at Huddington. Catesby and Digby had sent a letter to Garnet. Bates was the messenger, and was come from Norbrook, the house of John Grant, where the plotters rested in their wild, north-westward flight from Ashby St. Legers. For to Ashby the fugitives had posted headlong from London town on Tuesday, the “fatal Fifth.” Catesby and Digby urged Garnet to make for Wales.[A]