heads displayed on spikes at "the side of the Parliament House". With Thomas dead, there was nobody who could either implicate or clear Henry Percy of any involvement in the plot. His failure to ensure that Thomas took the Oath of Supremacy upon his appointment as a Gentleman Pensioner, and their meeting on 4 November, constituted damning evidence, and the Privy Council also suspected that had the plot succeeded, he would have been Princess Elizabeth's protector. With insufficient evidence to convict him he was charged with contempt, fined £30,000 and stripped of all public offices. He remained in the Tower until 1621. References Notes Footnotes Bibliography 1560s births 1605 deaths 16th-century English people 16th-century Roman Catholics 17th-century English people 17th-century Roman Catholics Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Date of birth unknown Deaths by firearm in England English criminals English Roman Catholics Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms People associated with the Gunpowder Plot People from Beverley Roman Catholic activists People educated at Beverley Grammar School Thomas