at Hendlip Hall. This news was sent to the searchers at Hendlip, near Worcester, and after a long quest, not only was Oldcorne captured there, but Father Garnet[1] also, who surrendered himself into the hands of Sir Henry Bromley, a local magistrate.
Thus, owing to the cupidity of a menial, was effected, by a most extraordinary series of accidents, the capture of Father Henry Garnet, the Superior of the English Jesuits, who was put on his trial for treason, and hanged in St. Paul's Churchyard.
Humphrey Lyttleton's life was not spared, after all, and he suffered the same fate [2] as the priests he had betrayed.
Stephen Lyttleton was eventually executed at Stafford.
The adventures of Robert Winter and Stephen Lyttleton during the period (nearly two months) which intervened between their escape from Holbeach and their capture at Hagley were of so exciting and romantic a nature as to bear some resemblance to those of Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester. Both Charles and the plotters were saved more than once from capture
- ↑ Hallam makes a curious error when he says, in his Constitutional History, that Garnet was 'taken at Henlip along with the other conspirators.'
- ↑ In defence of the Government, it has been asserted that Humphrey Lyttleton was merely offered a reprieve; but this seems absurd, for no man would betray his best friends, unless he received some very strong inducement to do so.
