Thomas Habington

[1] In 1586 his elder brother Edward Habington became embroiled in the Babington Plot to effect the escape of Mary, Queen of Scots and was executed for treason.

[4] In the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot he gave asylum to the Jesuits, Henry Garnett, Edward Oldcorne, Nicholas Owen and Ralph Ashley.

[9] Habington was condemned to death at Worcester Lent Assizes on 4 April, but through the intervention of his brother-in-law, Lord Monteagle, the sentence was commuted.

[3] The only work published by Habington in his lifetime was the first English translation of Gildas's De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, which he completed during his imprisonment in the Tower.

[13] He was reputed to have also begun a history of Edward IV during his imprisonment, which was completed and published in 1640 by his son William Habington.

[14] In the 1630s Habington began to correspond with the Warwickshire antiquary Sir Simon Archer and it was anticipated that he would produce a history of Worcestershire.