Montague, Mordaunt, and Stourton (Tresham's brother-in-law) are…
November 1605 CE
Montague, Mordaunt, and Stourton (Tresham's brother-in-law) are also imprisoned in the Tower.
The Earl of Northumberland joins them on November 27.
Meanwhile the government uses the revelation of the plot to accelerate its persecution of Catholics.
The Popish Recusants Act 1605 forbids Roman Catholics from practicing the professions of law and medicine and from acting as a guardian or trustee; and it allows magistrates to search their houses for arms.
The Act also provides a new oath of allegiance, which denies the power of the Pope to depose monarchs.
The recusant is to be fined sixty pounds or to forfeit two-thirds of his land if he does not receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at least once a year in his Church of England parish church.
The Act also makes it high treason to obey the authority of Rome rather than the King.
The home of Anne Vaux at Enfield Chase is searched, revealing the presence of trap doors and hidden passages.
A terrified servant then reveals that Garnet, who had often stayed at the house, had recently given a Mass there.
Father John Gerard is secreted at the home of Elizabeth Vaux, in Harrowden.
Elizabeth is taken to London for interrogation.
Here she is resolute; she had never been aware that Gerard was a priest, she had presumed he was a "Catholic gentleman", and she does not know of his whereabouts.
The homes of the conspirators are searched, and looted.
The home of Mary Digby is ransacked, and she is made destitute.
Some time before the end of November, Garnet moves to Hindlip Hall near Worcester, the home of the Habingtons, where he writes a letter to the Privy Council protesting his innocence.
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