<P> By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found, the surviving conspirators were arraigned in Westminster Hall . Seven of the prisoners were taken from the Tower to the Star Chamber by barge . Bates, who was considered lower class, was brought from the Gatehouse Prison . Some of the prisoners were reportedly despondent, but others were nonchalant, even smoking tobacco . The King and his family, hidden from view, were among the many who watched the trial . The Lords Commissioners present were the Earls of Suffolk, Worcester, Northampton, Devonshire, and Salisbury . Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas . The list of traitors' names was read aloud, beginning with those of the priests: Garnet, Tesimond, and Gerard . </P> <P> The first to speak was the Speaker of the House of Commons (later Master of the Rolls), Sir Edward Philips, who described the intent behind the plot in lurid detail . He was followed by the Attorney - General Sir Edward Coke, who began with a long speech--the content of which was heavily influenced by Salisbury--that included a denial that the King had ever made any promises to the Catholics . Monteagle's part in the discovery of the plot was welcomed, and denunciations of the 1603 mission to Spain featured strongly . Fawkes's protestations that Gerard knew nothing of the plot were omitted from Coke's speech . The foreign powers, when mentioned, were accorded due respect, but the priests were accursed, their behaviour analysed and criticised wherever possible . There was little doubt, according to Coke, that the plot had been invented by the Jesuits . Garnet's meeting with Catesby, at which the former was said to have absolved the latter of any blame in the plot, was proof enough that the Jesuits were central to the conspiracy; according to Coke the Gunpowder Plot would always be known as the Jesuit Treason . Coke spoke with feeling of the probable fate of the Queen and the rest of the King's family, and of the innocents who would have been caught up in the explosion . </P> <P> Sir Edward Coke </P> <P> Each of the condemned, said Coke, would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground . He was to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". His genitals would be cut off and burnt before his eyes, and his bowels and heart then removed . Then he would be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of his body displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air". Confessions and declarations from the prisoners were then read aloud, and finally the prisoners were allowed to speak . Rookwood claimed that he had been drawn into the plot by Catesby, "whom he loved above any worldy man". Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared . Fawkes explained his not guilty plea as ignorance of certain aspects of the indictment . Keyes appeared to accept his fate, Bates and Robert Wintour begged for mercy, and Grant explained his involvement as "a conspiracy intended but never effected". Only Digby, tried on a separate indictment, pleaded guilty, insisting that the King had reneged upon promises of toleration for Catholics, and that affection for Catesby and love of the Catholic cause mitigated his actions . He sought death by the axe and begged mercy from the King for his young family . His defence was in vain; his arguments were rebuked by Coke and Northumberland, and along with his seven co-conspirators, he was found guilty by the jury of high treason . Digby shouted "If I may but hear any of your lordships say, you forgive me, I shall go more cheerfully to the gallows ." The response was short: "God forgive you, and we do ." </P>

Who was not involved in the 1605 gunpowder plot