Gunpowder Plot under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. His fellow plotters were John and Christopher Wright, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Thomas Percy, Guy Fawkes, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. Fawkes, who had 10 years of military experience fighting in the Spanish Netherlands in the failed suppression of the Dutch Revolt, was given charge of the explosives. The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on 26 October 1605. During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight
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