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Gunpowder Plot Room, Ashby St. Ledgers.- Senhouse family.- Visitors book, containing thousands of signatures, c. 365pp., most pp. interleaved with blotting paper, most signatures in ink, some in pencil, 1 leaf partly torn away, a few other ff. with tears, some ff. excised, some blotting paper torn and removed, slightly browned throughout, original reversed calf, title lettered direct on upper cover, worn, some ink stains, corners worn, folio, 1886-1903. ⁂ "This chamber is the memorable spot/Where was conceived Guy Fawkes' papal plot/ But, thanks to Providence, his vile design/Could not our Christian basis undermine. Joseph B. Cooke Loughborough April 26/[18] 90." Signatures, including: George N[athaniel] Curzon "Lord Curzon" and numerous members of the Curzons of Kedlestone Hall (Curzon and Senhouse families were related), Lady Knightley (1842-1913), churchwoman and woman's activist, W.E. Gladstone (Hawarden Castle), Sir Claud Russell (of Balliol College, diplomat, ambassador to Portugal, 1871-1959), Brig.-Gen. Hon. Anthony Morton Henley (1873-1925), Sir Redvers Buller (army officer, 1839-1908), "The Duke & Duchess of Warwick" (Daisy Warwick, society hostess, 1861-1938, ?in a Senhouse hand), Sir Henry Howard (diplomat at St. Petersburg and first British envoy to the Vatican in over 300 years, 1843-1921). Other signatures, including: Coventry Lady Cyclists, numerous members of the Senhouse family (Humphrey, Florence, Dorothy, Guy, owners of The Manor House, Ashby St Ledgers), Francis Aubrey Darnell (Chaplain to HM Forces), Sir James Pender (of Thornby Hall, Northamptonshire), Charles and Lady Jane Grey Trefusis, Granville Leveson-Gower, Ronald Leveson-Gower, Moffatt family members of Goodrich Court (Herefordshire), L.S. Topham (Punjaub N.W.P.), Rowland Leigh (of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire), Count Marc E.J. Wratislaw (of Rugby), John Brown (game keeper, Ashby St Ledgers), schoolboys from Rugby School, Hilary Holman Hunt (son of the painter, William Holman Hunt , Jn C Napier of Magdala, Emilia Napier (sister of Lord Napier of Magdala), Francis Nathaniel Curzon, Lord and Lady Salisbury (in a Senhouse hand), "L. White Police Inspector... Clapham", Coventry District Cycle Club, Mary Elinor Colvile Dodford Rectory, Captain Vesey T. Bunbury, Archibal Knowles, (The Red Lion, Blackden, nr. Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, ink stamp), Temperance Prize Band (of Long Buckby), Rugby Star Football Club, Volunteer Corps Rugby, Lady Shuckburgh, Royal Psycho C.C., Corp James Bachelor Barbadoes, Peary ("Marlboro Gate, St James's Palace"), W.E. Mortimer (Chicago), ?B. Florence Nightingale, H. June Gladwin (Broughton Castle, Banbury). The manor house at Ashby St Ledgers was the home of the Catesby family from 1375 to 1611. Robert Catesby (b. in or after 1572, d. 1605), leader of the Gunpowder Plotters, planned with others the attack in the Plotters Room, a timber framed gate house in Ashby St Ledgers Manor. In the 19th century the house was owned by the Senhouse family, cousins of the Curzon family of Kedlestone Hall, and members of both families have signed this visitors book.