No one is immune from the plague when it strikes England during the Medieval Ages not even royalty like Princess Joan. In fact everyone suffers either directly or through the loss of someone close to them.
The greatest ever escape from the Tower of London happened in 1716. Guy Fawkes was not the only person to fail with his insurrection. Another person set to suffer this fate is the Jacobean, William Maxwell, better known as Lord Nithsdale.