Bates describes on January 13, 1606, how…
January 1606 CE
Bates describes on January 13, 1606, how he had visited Garnet and Tesimond on November 7 to inform Garnet of the plot's failure.
Bates had also told his interrogators of his ride with Tesimond to Huddington, before the priest left him to head for the Habingtons at Hindlip Hall, and of a meeting in October 1605 between Garnet, Gerard, and Tesimond.
Tresham's health had begun to deteriorate at about the same time, in December.
He was visited regularly by his wife, a nurse, and his servant William Vavasour, who documented his strangury.
Before he died Tresham had also told of Garnet's involvement with the 1603 mission to Spain, but in his last hours he retracted some of these statements.
Nowhere in his confession did he mention the Monteagle letter.
He died early on the morning of December 23, and was buried in the Tower.
Nevertheless he was attainted along with the other plotters, his head was set on a pike either at Northampton or London Bridge, and his estates confiscated.