Henry Garnet, English priest and author (born 1555)

Henry Garnet

16th-century English Jesuit priest (1555–1606)

Henry Garnet, sometimes Henry Garnett, was an English Jesuit priest executed for high treason, based solely on having had advance knowledge of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and having refused to violate the Seal of the Confessional by notifying the authorities. Born in Heanor,…