following morning, the remaining four were dragged to the Old Palace Yard at Westminster, opposite the building they had planned to destroy. Thomas was the first to mount the scaffold. It was customary to grant the condemned a speech, but Thomas, "a very pale and dead colour", said it was "no time to discourse: he was come to die". He absolved the Jesuits of any involvement in the plot, asked for Catholics to pray for him, and declared his adherence to the Roman religion. He was hanged for only a few seconds, and then taken to the block for the remainder of his grim sentence. Their half-brother John was executed at Red Hill near Worcester, on 7 April. References Footnotes Notes Bibliography External links Biography at Gunpowder-plot.org Descendants 1570s births 1606 deaths People from Wychavon (district) English Roman Catholics 17th-century English criminals Executed Gunpowder Plotters People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering Sibling duos 16th-century English people 16th-century Roman Catholics 17th-century Roman Catholics Executed English people Robert and Thomas