Only ten days before the Opening of Parliament, Lord Monteagle, an apparently reformed Catholic, was sitting down to dinner in his Hoxton home when an important letter arrived for him. It read.

议会召开只余10天时，一位显然经过改造的天主教徒蒙特·塔格上议员在他位于霍斯顿的家中用晚餐时，收到了一封至关重要的信。