{"id":1164,"date":"2022-11-04T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:24:28","slug":"osgodby-connections-the-gunpower-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/2022\/11\/04\/osgodby-connections-the-gunpower-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgodby Connections &#8211; The Gunpower plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/The-conspirators1-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1165\" width=\"357\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/The-conspirators1-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/The-conspirators1-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/The-conspirators1-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/The-conspirators1.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Everyone knows about the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, but do you know about the connections with Osgodby???<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mary Ward was living with her relatives, the Babthorpe\u2019s, at Osgodby Hall in 1605.&nbsp; She had many suitors who she turned down marriage proposals.&nbsp; Her father, Marmaduke Ward, intended her to marry Edward Neville of Westmoreland.&nbsp; To persuade her, Marmaduke took her to London to meet Father Richard Holtby.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It was during this trip, Mary\u2019s maternal uncles John and Christopher Wright, together with Thomas Percy also an uncle through the marriage of her aunt Martha, were involved in the Gunpowder Plot.&nbsp; Mary\u2019s father was examined as a possible conspirator but was not implicated.&nbsp; He was able to prove he was in London with his daughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John and Christopher Wright along with Guy Fawkes attended St Peter\u2019s School in York. &nbsp;Thomas Percy became a royal bodyguard and let Guy Fawkes act as his servant, giving them both access to roam around Parliament.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>John and Christopher Wright and Thomas Percy died of gunshot wounds on 8 November 1605.\u00a0 Thomas Percy\u2019s body was exhumed, and his head displayed on a spike outside the Houses of Parliament.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about the Gunpowder Plot of November 1605, but do you know about the connections with Osgodby??? Mary Ward was living with her relatives, the Babthorpe\u2019s, at Osgodby Hall in 1605.&nbsp; She had many suitors who she turned down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}