about noon
`` Well ! '' replied Winter , `` I will take such part as you do . '' And John Wright said , `` I will live and die among you . '' Not long afterwards , about noon , the Sheriff and his troops surrounded Holbeach House . After several ineffectual summonses to surrender , and the reading of a proclamation in the King 's name bidding the rebels to submit themselves , which met only with blunt refusals , the Sheriff fired the house , and led an attack upon the gates . The conspirators who were left showed no lack of courage . They walked out into the court-yard , set the gate open , and took up their stand in front of it , Catesby in the middle , with Percy and Thomas Winter on either side .