found guilty. The King at first reprieved him, but owing to a remonstrance of the Commons the death warrant was issued on the day after the meeting of Parliament. Thwing was hung, drawn, and quartered at the Tyburn in York on 23 October 1680. J.P. Kenyon observed that Thwing was executed for conspiracy, despite the logical difficulty of a conspiracy without any other conspirators. Death and family Gascoigne left England for good shortly after his acquittal and settled in Germany. He died in 1686 at Lamspringe Abbey near Hildesheim, a Benedictine house of which his brother John, who died in 1681, had been Abbot. By his wife Anne Symeon of Brightwell, Oxfordshire, he had eight surviving children, including his heir Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 3rd Baronet, and Anne, who married Sir Stephen Tempest. Like her father Anne was tried, but acquitted for alleged complicity in the Popish Plot. Two younger daughters, Catherine and Frances, became nuns. He left £450 (c. £38,000 at 2010 valuation, with the purchasing power of 5,054 days of a craftsman's wages in the building trade.) that helped found the Bar Convent at Micklegate Bar in York. This money was also put towards the creation of Bar Convent Girls School which was the first Catholic School for girls in England, the school perpetuates Thomas Gascoigne's vision for comprehensive and egalitarian education, but as a mixed secondary school, All Saints RC School. The British consul at Amsterdam, who visited him at his last refuge in Lamspringe Abbey, called him "a very good, harmless gentleman", who was clearly innocent of the crimes of which he had been accused. References Further reading R. v. Gascoigne (1680), reported State Trials Volume 7 p. 960 External links Portrait of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 2nd Baronet, by Cornelius de Neve. Bridgeman Art Library / Leeds Museums and Galleries (Lotherton Hall). 1596 births 1686 deaths English knights Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia English Roman Catholics People from Aberford 16th-century English people 17th-century English people 16th-century Roman Catholics 17th-century Roman Catholics