Accused in The Gunpowder Plot
Superior of the English Jesuits; executed for failing to reveal what he had learned of the plot under the seal of confession.
1605–1606 · Palace of Westminster, London · Executed
Thirty-six barrels of powder under the House of Lords, an anonymous letter, and a man called 'John Johnson' with a lantern: the plot behind Bonfire Night. Read the case.
Dated events
Henry Garnet is executed at St Paul's Churchyard.