sentences:  The Treshams—both the family at Newton and their more well-known Roman Catholic cousins at nearby Rushton Hall, the family of Francis Tresham, who had been involved two years earlier in the Gunpowder Plot and had apparently died in the Tower of London—were unpopular for their voracious enclosing of land.Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton was known as a gentleman "the most odious in this country" [Pettit, 173].The old Roman Catholic gentry family of the Treshams had long argued with the emerging Puritan gentry family the Montagus of Boughton House about territory.