not then present), Elizabeth answered, "I will, and be of good courage. Offer theyself wholly to God. I, for my part, do as freely restore thee to God as He gave thee unto me." For the rest of the journey he kept his eyes closed, in prayer. Thomas Wintour was the first that day to be hanged and then killed. Rookwood was next, and made a short speech to the assembled audience. He was repentant, asking God to bless the king, queen, and their "royal progeny", but "spoil[ed] all the pottage with one filthy weed" by beseeching God to make the king a Catholic. He seems to have been left to hang for longer than the others, before suffering the remainder of his sentence. References Footnotes Notes Bibliography 1570s births 1606 deaths Executed Gunpowder Plotters 17th-century English criminals English Roman Catholics 17th-century Roman Catholics People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering Executed English people Horse breeders People from the Borough of St Edmundsbury Recusants