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MONTEAGLE, WILLIAM PARKER, 4TH BARON

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 763 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTEAGLE, See also:WILLIAM See also:PARKER, 4TH See also:BARON , and 11TH BARON See also:MORLEY (1575—1622), was the eldest son of See also:Edward Parker, loth Baron Morley (d. 1618), and of See also:Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William See also:Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (d. 1581). When quite a youth he married Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Thomas Tresham, and was styled See also:Lord Monteagle in right of his See also:mother. He was allied with many See also:Roman See also:Catholic families, and during the reign of Elizabeth was in sympathy with their cause. He received See also:knighthood when with See also:Essex in See also:Ireland in 1599, and in 1601 took See also:part in the latter's See also:rebellion in See also:London, when he was punished by imprisonment and a See also:fine of £8000. He subsequently in 1602 joined in sending the See also:mission to See also:Spain inviting See also:Philip III. to invade See also:England. He was intimate with See also:Catesby and others, and according to See also:Father See also:Garnet expressed an See also:opinion some few months before See also:gunpowder See also:plot that the Romanists had a See also:good opportunity of making good their claims by taking up arms against the See also:king. It is certain that he was one of those who acquiesced in See also:James I.'s See also:accession and assisted See also:Southampton in securing the See also:Tower for the king. He was taken into favour, and received a See also:summons to attend the See also:parliament of the 5th of See also:November 1605 as Lord Monteagle. On the 26th of See also:October 16o5, while sitting at supper at Hoxton, he received the celebrated See also:letter giving warning of the See also:gun-See also:powder plot, probably written by See also:Francis Tresham. After having caused it to be read aloud by See also:Ward, a See also:gentleman in his service and an intimate friend of See also:Winter, one of the See also:chief conspirators, he took it to See also:Whitehall and showed it to Lord See also:Salisbury and other ministers.

On the 4th of November he accompanied Lord See also:

Suffolk, the lord See also:chamberlain, in his visit to the vault under the parliament See also:house, where See also:Guy See also:Fawkes was found. Monteagle received £700 a See also:year for his services in averting the disaster. In 1609 he was chosen a member of the See also:council of the See also:Virginia See also:Company and subscribed to its funds. The same year " disorders in his house " are reported, probably referring to his harbouring of Roman Catholic students from St Omer (Cal. of St Pap: Dom: 1603—1610, p. 533). In 1618, on the See also:death of his father, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Morley and Monteagle. He died on the 1st of See also:July 1622 at See also:Great Hallingbury, Essex, where he was buried. By his See also:marriage with Elizabeth Tresham he had, besides daughters, three sons, the eldest of whom, See also:Henry, (d. 1655) succeeded him as 12th Baron Morley and 5th Baron Monteagle. These baronies See also:fell into See also:abeyance when Henry's son Thomas died 'about 1686.

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