Fact 30: Who was involved in the gun powder plot on the 5th of November 1605?

Fact 30: Who was involved in the gun powder plot on the 5th of November's 1605?

The plot was originally five plotters Robert Catesby was the leader,Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright and Guy (or Guido) Fawkes.

 

These people joined later on Christopher Wright, Robert and Thomas Wintour, Robert Keyes, Thomas Bates, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Sir Everard Digby and Francis Tresham. 

In total there were 13 people in the group.

Fact 30 1/2: what was written in the letter?

This is what the letter said:

My Lord…I would advise you as you tender your life to devise some excuse to shift your attendance at this Parliament for God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time…though there be no appearance of any stir yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow this parliament and yet they shall not see who hurts them.

No-one knows who wrote the letter however here is what the UK Parliament website said:"Monteagle received the letter at his house in Hoxton, north London, on 26 October 1605, and immediately passed it to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, the King's most important minister. It is not known who wrote the letter, but the most likely candidate is Francis Tresham, Monteagle's brother-in-law.

Another conspirator, Thomas Winter, was well known in Monteagle's household, but it has been claimed that the letter was sent by someone in, or linked to, the government.

It may even have been Salisbury himself, in which case the plotters had been set up to provide a spectacular propaganda coup for the government."