sentences:  In 1612, Legate was convicted of blasphemous heresy and was burned at the stake, along with Edward Wightman.Another dissenter, the General Baptist leader Thomas Helwys, appealed to James for liberty of conscience, only to be sent to prison, where he died by 1616.After the Gunpowder Plot in November 1605, the third Catholic conspiracy against his person in three years, James sanctioned stricter measures to suppress them.