Thomas Bates out of money. During a secret meeting at Bath in August, at which he, Percy and Thomas Wintour were present, the plotters decided that "the company being yet but few" he was to be allowed to "call in whom he thought best". Bates was uncomfortable with the idea, and was the only member of the conspiracy to object. He was over-ruled however, and Catesby soon enlisted Ambrose Rookwood, Francis Tresham and Everard Digby. The last details of the plot were finalised in October. Guy Fawkes would light the fuse and then escape across the Thames, while simultaneously a revolt in
Stephen Lyttelton chose to fly on his own and he urged Wintour to do the same. Wintour did not listen to him but proceeded to Holbeche House, where he saw that the conspirators were alive, but some of them were injured. Robert Wintour was one of the conspirators who fled from Holbeche House the night between 7 to 8 November and he met up with Littleton shortly thereafter. On January 9, 1606, they both were arrested. They had spent two months on a flight where they were hiding in barns and houses and at one time they had to block a drunk