Huddington “assist” at Mass offered by Father Nicholas Hart, a Jesuit from Great Harrowden——Whole company “shriven and houselled”——Before daybreak all on march again north-westwards—— Halt at Whewell Grange, seat of the Lord Windsor——There help themselves to large store of arms and armour——Plotters and rebels then numbered about sixty all told——Cross the River Stour, in flood——A cart of gunpowder rendered “dank” in crossing——Proceed to Holbeach House, in Staffordshire—— Mansion-house of Stephen Littleton, Esquire, a Roman Catholic gentleman of ancient lineage. CHAPTER LIV. 177 High Sheriffs of Warwickshire and Worcestershire with _posse comitatus_ in pursuit——Plotters and rebels arrive at Holbeach (near Stourbridge) at ten of the clock on Thursday night——Early Friday morning explosion of drying gunpowder at Holbeach—— Catesby, Rookwood, and Grant burnt——Catesby unnerved—— Arch-conspirator and others betake themselves to prayers—— “Litanies and such like”——Make an hour’s “meditation”——About eleven of the clock on Friday, 8th November, Sheriff of Worcestershire and “hue and cry” surround Holbeach——Siege laid thereto——Thomas Winter disabled by an arrow from crossbow—— Catesby and Percy, standing sword in hand, shot by one musket—— Catesby expires——John Wright wounded unto death——Christopher Wright mortally wounded——Percy grievously wounded——Dies a day or two afterwards——Ambrose Rookwood wounded——Sir Everard Digby apprehended——Rest taken prisoners, except Stephen Littleton and Robert Winter, who escape. CHAPTER LV. 181 Father Henry Garnet changes his mind——Does not go up to London—— But from Gothurst, in Buckinghamshire, goes down to Coughton, in Warwickshire, on the 29th October——All Saints’ Day (November 1st) at Coughton Hall (now Coughton Court)——Mass “offered” by Father Garnet. CHAPTER LVI. 185 Stephen Littleton, the Master of Holbeach, and Robert Winter, the Master of Huddington, harboured at Rowley Regis, in Staffordshire, by a tenant of Humphrey Littleton, Esquire, of Hagley, Worcestershire, a cousin to Stephen Littleton——Humphrey Littleton harbours the two fugitives from justice at Hagley House, home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. John Littleton——Both fugitives betrayed by man-cook at Hagley——Delivered over to the officers of the law and conveyed to the Tower of London. CHAPTER LVII. 188 Humphrey Littleton consults Father Edward Oldcorne, the Jesuit, respecting the moral rightness or wrongness of the Gunpowder Plot——Father Oldcorne’s Reply to Littleton _in extenso_. CHAPTER LVIII. 190