- Robert Catesby: It is not practice to take the women.
- Sir William Wade: Practice does not fit the times in which we live.
- Robert Catesby (2017): The king is but a man, the king wields no power over the soul of his subjects. God and god alone has that power. King's privilege to sit on judgement of man's soul since I say I owe my souls allegiance to God a lot to any man who's flesh and blood carries no more divinity than my own