Catesby's team-building talents extended to the choice of secondary conspirators outside this 'inner ring'.
Amelia understands what he is thinking, but the rest of the world, represented on stage by the chorus of conspirators, does not.
From 1655 he was in complete control of the post office and oversaw a thriving business of opening and copying the letters of known and suspected conspirators.
The following period saw the mass arrest of the relatives involved in the attempt, including the arrest of the entire families of most of the main conspirators.
The conspirators wanted to halt the process by negotiating a peaceful end to the civil wars, so that the army's vestigial honour was preserved and the state's integrity ensured.
The scheme was that an individual entered into a fabricated mortgage of joint property with a fellow conspirator.
The conspirators had inadvertently expedited the two occurrences that they so ardently sought to prevent.
If they do commit the object crime, most conspirators will in fact be either perpetrators or accomplices.
