spent the next two days moving across Warwickshire and Worcestershire, attempting to drum up support for a rebellion that as time passed became ever more unlikely. On 6 November, the same day they were helping to raid Warwick Castle for supplies, the brothers were identified by the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham as suspects. This prompted the authorities to issue a public proclamation on 7 November naming them and several of their fellow conspirators as wanted men. The group tried unsuccessfully to recruit more rebels at Hewell Grange, but on 7 November, tired and desperate, they decided to make their stand at Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire. On the arrival the following morning of the Sheriff of Worcester and his company of men, a gun battle broke out and Catesby, Percy, and both Wright brothers were shot. With medical attention they might have survived, but "the baser sort" among the sheriff's men hurriedly stripped them of their clothes (Christopher's boots were pulled off to reach his silk stockings), and left them to die. Their younger sister, Alice Wright, the wife of William Redshaw, had sought to be a nurse to Princess Mary, and was lodged in the Strand. She was suspected of involvement in the Gunpowder Plot by Sir Edward Hoby and Thomas Posthumous Hoby who wrote to Cecil about her on 26 November 1605, noting she was a friend of Thomas Percy. References Footnotes Notes Bibliography Further reading 1568 births 1570 births 1605 deaths Year of birth uncertain English Roman Catholics People associated with the Gunpowder Plot People from Holderness People educated at St Peter's School, York Sibling duos 16th-century English people 17th-century English people 16th-century Roman Catholics 17th-century Roman Catholics