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<h2 id="investigation">Investigation</h2> <p>The plot was discovered during an investigation of the Bye Plot in which <a href="/facts/George_Brooke_(conspirator)/jHUdjzua">Sir George Brooke</a>, the brother of Lord Cobham, was implicated.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> The effort of examining the evidence gathered from suspects questioned in the far-fetched Bye Plot fell to <a href="/facts/William_Waad/PQFsg0g7">William Waad</a>. He teased out the "main" or serious plot, as he saw it and involving the highly placed Raleigh, from the rest of the "bye" plot; and presented his findings to <a href="/facts/Sir_Robert_Cecil/4RTr9UAa">Sir Robert Cecil</a> and the Privy Council.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="consequences">Consequences</h2> <p>Cobham and Raleigh were both imprisoned in the <a href="/facts/Tower_of_London/D80dKXrh">Tower of London</a> as was Sir <a href="/facts/Griffin_Markham/gKyRTpCA">Griffin Markham</a>. Raleigh was released after thirteen years, but was eventually executed in 1618. The sick Cobham was released in the same year, dying some months later. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Throckmorton_Plot/eATzaEUP">Throckmorton Plot</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gunpowder_Plot/Ds3XkfF1">Gunpowder Plot</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.lexscripta.com/articles/raleigh4.html">Lex Scripta account of the plots</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Brooke, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brooke,_George" target="_blank">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Brooke,_George</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Fiona Bengtsen, Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Gunpowder Plot (2005), p. 27; Google Books. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=meTCjNCYmsIC&pg=27" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=meTCjNCYmsIC&pg=27</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>