Three movements against Government of James I. in the year of the Gunpowder Treason Plot (1605) distinct though connected——(1) General wave of insurrectionary feeling on part of Papists by reason of penal laws of Queen Elizabeth——(2) Gunpowder Plot devised by Robert Catesby——(3) Rebellion in Midlands under leadership of Sir Everard Digby——Earl of Salisbury, his spies and decoys, may have fomented first movement but not others—— Certainly not projectors of Gunpowder Plot——Traditional story accepted in main outlines. CHAPTER I. 1 Reasons given why subordinate conspirator, Francis Tresham, cannot have “discovered” Plot——True principles laid down to guide mind of Inquirer into _personnel_ of (1) Revealing Conspirator, (2) Penman of Letter. CHAPTER II. 4 A “division of labour” in beneficent work of “discovering” Plot—— Why?——Probabilities of case suggest at least three persons engaged in “swinging round on its axis diabolical Plot”——Whom Revealing conspirator would employ——Persons most likely. CHAPTER III. 6 Who was Lord Mounteagle?——Ancestry——Father: Lord Morley——Title, Mounteagle, derived through mother, Honourable Elizabeth Stanley, heiress of William Stanley third Lord Mounteagle—— Mother akin to Howards through Leybournes of Westmoreland. CHAPTER IV. 9 Lord Mounteagle receives Letter 26th October, 1605, between “six and seven of the clock,” at Hoxton, near London——Opened by Mounteagle——Read by a member of his household, Thomas Ward——Full text of Letter given——27th October, Ward tells Thomas Winter, a conspirator, that Letter had been received by Mounteagle——Had been taken to Robert Cecil first Earl of Salisbury, Principal Secretary of State——28th October, Winter repairs to White Webbs by Enfield Chase, ten miles north of Westminster——Informs Catesby that “game was up”——Catesby says “would see further as yet”——Guy Fawkes sent from White Webbs to view cellar under House of Lords——Finds all marks undisturbed——Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder, wood, and coal all ready for fatal Fifth——Fawkes returns at night safely——Thomas Winter meets (or is met by) subordinate conspirator, Christopher Wright——Fawkes captured early on Tuesday, November 5th——Christopher Wright announces to Thomas Winter Fawkes’ capture. CHAPTER V. 14