Warning
 Ten
days to go. The gunpowder was ready. The plotters were ready.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, all it took to upset those
careful plans was a very mysterious letter.
This letter has survived 400 years.
Can you find out what it says?
Letter sent to Lord Monteagle, National Archives
(UK)
 Lord
Monteagle, a very important man and friend of King James,
was given this letter at dinner on October 26th 1605. A tall,
mysterious stranger had handed it to his servant in the street
earlier in the evening.
Monteagle didn't know what to make of the letter and he had
no way of knowing who had written it. Was it a nasty joke?
A hoax? Or was it a serious warning...?
 In
the hundreds of years since the Gunpowder Plot
many different authors and artists have written versions of
the story. Take a look at the pages below to see two very
different ways of portraying, or showing, Lord Monteagle.
Read Card 5 to find out what happened next.
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