Eleanor Brooksby

Eleanor Brooksby was a British noblewoman who, along with her sister Anne Voux, supported Catholics in England during the 16th century by providing safe houses including Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire and White Webbs in Enfield Chase near London for Jesuit missionaries such as Henry Garnett and was later involved in the Gunpowder Plot.

In 1605, she and Voux attended a pilgrimage of Catholic recusants to Holywell refusing to plege their alliengence to King James I of England which was suspected as a cover for the Gunpowder Plot by authorities.

Further reading

*Hartley, Cathy and Susan Leckey. "A Historical Dictionary of British Women". London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 1-85743-228-2
*Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee. "Dictionary of National Biography". London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1899.