Did a warning letter foil the Gunpowder Plot? In the third episode of Gunpowder, Lord Monteagle (played by Sean Rigby) — who had ties to some of the conspirators and had engaged in previous ...

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 ...

The unsigned letter got straight to the point ... He was one of several Catholic conspirators in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot. While not the ringleader himself, Fawkes became ...

That didn't happen, so Fawkes and his fellow conspirators smuggled 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellar under the House of Lords. How was the plot foiled? An anonymous letter tipped off ...

THE Gunpowder Plot came within a whisker of blowing up ... The Catholic peer Lord Monteagle received an anonymous letter - thought to be from his brother-in-law Francis Tresham, one of the ...

London commuters were baffled this morning as the architects of the Gunpowder Plot from 1605 boarded the ... holding an anonymous letter revealing details of the planned atrocity.

Fawkes and his co-conspirators were drawn and quartered, and the Catholic revolutionaries’ plot to overthrow Protestant King James I foiled. Two centuries after the “gunpowder plot” failed ...

The house where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched was the "perfect place" for the conspirators to meet, according to historian and TV presenter Lucy Worsley. For her latest BBC Two series ...

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 ...