can someone tell me who lord monteagle was during the 17th century?
2007-03-11 11:07:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
he was a reformed catholic who received a letter from his brother in law about the Gunpowder Plot and told the Government (Lord Cecil)
2007-03-11 11:13:07 · answer #1 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a friend of one of the Gunpowder Plotters.
Originally the Catesby rented a house near to the Palace of Westminster and the group began to dig a tunnel out under the Houses of Parliament. However progress was slow for these gentlemen who were not used to such hard labour. Eventually, in March 1605, Thomas Percy was able to use his connections at the Royal Court to rent a cellar right under the House of Lords! The tunnel was quickly abandoned and, posing as Percy's servant, one "John Johnson," Fawkes was able to fill the underground storehouse with some thirty-six barrels of gunpowder hidden beneath coal and wooden sticks, a store of fuel for the winter. Everything was set in place: all the conspirators had to do now was wait.
Perhaps they had prepared too early though, for doubts began to creep into the minds of some of the plotters, worried about fellow catholics who would be present in Parliament on the appointed day, the 5th November. Only ten days before the Opening of Parliament, Lord Monteagle, an apparently reformed catholic, was sitting down to dinner in his Hoxton home when an important letter arrived for him. It read:
"My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care for your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift of your attendance of this Parliament, for God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time. And think not slightly of this advertisement but retire yourself into your country, where you may expect the event in safety, for though there be no appearance of any stir, yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow, the Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them.. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good and can do you know harm, for the danger is past as soon as you have burnt the latter: and I hope God will give you the grace to make gooduse of it, to whose holy protection I commend you."
The authorship of the letter has never been certainly identified, but Lord Monteagle was Francis Tresham's brother-in-law.
2007-03-11 11:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Boomer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a traitor and informer in the gunpowder plot.
2007-03-13 06:26:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was william parker he played a role in the gunpowder plot1605 also known as baron morley.
2007-03-11 11:14:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋