[CONTENTS]
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| Preface | [v] | |
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| I. | Historical Analysis | [1] |
| II. | The Official Story of the Letter | [5] |
| III. | Identification of the Handwriting | [9] |
| IV. | The Attorney-General's Opinion of Vavasour's Guilt | [19] |
| V. | Francis Tresham's Confidence when in the Tower | [24] |
| VI. | The Vavasours as Dependants of the Tresham Family | [25] |
LIST OF FACSIMILES
1. The anonymous letter as delivered to Lord Monteagle, October 26, 1605, warning him not to attend the opening of Parliament appointed for the Fifth of November (From the original letter in the Museum of the Public Record Office)[Frontispiece]
2. A page of the MS. entitled "A Treatise against Lying," etc., formerly belonging to Francis Tresham, of which the handwriting was attributed by his brother, William Tresham, to William Vavasour. Now in the Bodleian Library. (Laud MSS. 655, folio 44)[1]
3. William Vavasour's handwriting in the letter to the Earl of Salisbury, dictated and signed by Francis Tresham when dying in the Tower, December 22, 1605 ("State Papers, Domestic," James I., ccxvi. 211)[1]
Stated by Vavasour to have been written by Mrs. Tresham. On March 24, 1605-6, he confessed that he wrote it and signed a note to it to that effect.
4. William Vavasour's handwriting in his untrue statement, written in the presence of the Lieutenant of the Tower, that No. 3 was written by Mrs. Tresham. Dated March 23, 1605-6 ("State Papers, Domestic," James I., ccxvi. 207)[1]