Tresham, Francis. Copy of letter from Francis Tresham[?] to William Parker, Lord Monteagle, October 26, 1605

Folger bibliographic ID: 235875
Folger call number: V.a.321, fol. 45v
Folger holdings ID: 289647

Letter from unnamed correspondent (probably Francis Tresham) warning his brother-in-law not to attend the new Parliament

General notes

Monteagle's showing of this letter to Lord Salisbury led to the discovery of the Gunpowder plot to blow up parliament. The original is in the National Archives, Kew (see the Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1603-1610, p. 237). The writer of this letter has been attributed to Francis Tresham (see article in Oxford DNB) or Christopher Wright (see H.H. Spink's The Gunpowder plot ... 1902). The facsimile edition of V.a.321 identifies the letter's author as Thomas Percy

Publications

A seventeenth-century letter-book : a facsimile edition of Folger MS. V.a. 321 / with transcript, annotation, and commentary by A.R. Braunmuller. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c1983, no. 69

Extended title: Copy of letter from Francis Tresham[?] to William Parker, Lord Monteagle, October 26, 1605 ca. 1615

Tresham, Francis, 1567?-1605 Monteagle, William Parker, Baron, 1574 or 1575-1622 Gunpowder Plot, 1605

attributed name: Tresham, Francis, 1567?-1605
subject: Tresham, Francis, 1567?-1605
subject: Monteagle, William Parker, Baron, 1574 or 1575-1622
correspondent: Monteagle, William Parker, Baron, 1574 or 1575-1622