They reached Lord Windsor's house,[312] about noon, and all dismounted, "saving some fewe whoe sate on their horses to watch whoe should come unto the howse." They then made their second raid. It was not for horses, as at Warwick; this time they sought for arms and armour, of which there was a large store at Whewell Grange. They appear to have met with no resistance, from which we may infer that, to use a modern and vulgar phrase, "the family were from home." When they had all armed themselves, they put the remainder into a cart, while they filled another with a quantity of powder. These two carts then formed part of the procession. Sir Everard Digby can scarcely have failed to feel shame at the plunder of Whewell Grange. What had Lord Windsor done that his house should be pillaged? He had served his country as a sailor, and he eventually became a Rear Admiral of the Fleet. Why should his things be taken feloniously from his home during his absence? His father had died only seven months earlier, and the funeral hatchment was most likely hanging over the doorway when these thieves entered. While the robbers were ransacking the house--I fear that Sir Everard Digby was among them--some of the neighbouring peasants and villagers came up, out of curiosity, to see what was going on. As he came out of the house, Catesby saw from twenty to thirty of them standing about.[313] [312] Whewell, or Hewell Grange, had belonged to the Abbey of Bordesley, and had been given, soon after the dissolution of the monasteries, to Sir Andrew Windsor by Hen. VIII. in exchange for the manor of Stanwell in Middlesex. A new house was built at Whewell about 1712. "Here is a pleasant park having hills gently swelling, and a lake of clear water measuring above 30 acres." _Nash's Worcestershire_, Vol ii. p. 423. [313] Thomas Maunder's Examination, Nov. 1605, and Ellis's Examination, Nov. 21, 1605. S. P. Dom. James I., Gunpowder Plot Bk., n. 62 and 108. "Will you come with us?" said he. "Maybe we would, if we knew what you mean to do," was the reply. "We are for God and the country!" said Catesby. Then one of the men, who was leaning with his back against a wall, struck the ground with his stick and cried, "We are for the King James, as well as for God and the country, and we will not go against his will."