In late October 1605 Lord Monteagle received an unsigned letter warning him to stay away from the opening of Parliament, and the Gunpowder Plot unravelled. Morgan examines the official story of the letter, the government’s careful silence about its writer, and then compares the letter’s letter-forms, long s’s and peculiar t’s with surviving manuscripts to name the hand that wrote it.
A short, absorbing piece of historical detective work on one of the great mysteries of English history. Download the free EPUB.