Accompanied by a copy of warning letter to Lord Monteagle. Autograph document 1 p. 15 cm. Includes transcription This is apparently the only private letter containing a detailed contemporary account of the Gunpowder Plot. The fact that the letter is dated from Gray's Inn indicates that the writer had legal connections, and this may account for his inside knowledge of the affair less than a week after the event. The enclosed copy - also in Pattricke's hand - of the warning letter to Monteagle contains a few verbal variants from the original. At the foot is Pattricke's note that it was "Delivered to my Lorde of Mountegles page inclosed in a letter of his" and a list of the gunpowder and "other instruments" found in the cellar with Guy Fawkes. From the Catesby collection
Watermark: grape with decorative base Pages numbered 77 and 79 in pencil Title on adjunct pages Count John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen was the Dutch governor, 1636-1644 Based on information from Manuel Perez Aleman, commander of the Portuguese merchant ship El Sacramento of an event occurring Sunday 28th April Reports the nature of the siege of Bahia and Baya de Todos los Sanctos and the volume of chests of sugar on board the merchant ships
An accounting to Chris. Harris for money due to the purchase of newspapers and a book Lower portion of manuscript missing On verso arithmetic figurings and genealogical notes Removed from Dugdale, The baronage of England... London, Printed by T. Newcomb, 1675-1676 (Lilly CS421 .A2 D8).