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The anonymous message was delivered to peer Lord Monteagle in 1605, warning him not to attend the opening of Parliament on November 5.
He alerted officials, who found Catholic terrorist Fawkes guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder in the House of Lords’ vaults.
Treason: People, Power and Plot opens at the National Archives in Kew, south west London, on Saturday, and includes Fawkes’s confession and a “wanted” notice for his gang.
The show recounts tales that sprang from the 1352 Treason Act, which is still in force, such as the court roll for Anne Boleyn.
Also featured are the watch of Nazi propagandist William Joyce, the last person executed for treason in the UK, and trial diary for doomed Charles I.
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