Editing Hoxton (section)

===Gunpowder, treason and a letter===
{{Main|Gunpowder Plot}}
On 26 October 1605 Hoxton achieved notoriety, when a letter arrived at the home of local resident [[William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle|William Parker, Lord Monteagle]] warning him not to attend the [[Parliament of England|Parliament]] summoned by [[James I of England|James I]] to convene on 5 November, because "yet I say they shall receive a terrible blow, the Parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them". The letter may have been sent by his brother-in-law [[Francis Tresham]], or he may have written it himself, to curry favour. The letter was read aloud at supper, before prominent Catholics, and then he delivered it personally to [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury|Robert Cecil]] at [[Whitehall]]. While the conspirators were alerted, by the public reading, to the existence of the letter they persevered with their plot as their [[gunpowder]] remained undiscovered. William Parker accompanied [[Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk|Thomas Howard]], the [[Lord Chamberlain]], at his visit to the undercroft of Parliament, where [[Guy Fawkes]] was found in the early hours of 5 November.<ref>[http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g08.pdf ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717065344/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/g08.pdf |date=17 July 2009 }}</ref> Most of the conspirators fled on the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, but [[Francis Tresham]] was arrested a few days later at his house in Hoxton. A commemorative plaque is attached to modern flats at the site of Parker's house in Hoxton Street.