The plotters put 36 barrels of gunpowder in a cellar underneath Parliament. One of the plotters wrote to a friend in Parliament, Baron Monteagle, to warn him about the Plot. The letter reached the ...

The 'Gunpowder Plot' was foiled at the eleventh hour ... men in the land as they sat in the room above. The 'Monteagle Letter' betrays the plotters As the plot neared fruition, something happened ...