KB 8: Bag of Secrets

3D Model

This is a 3D model of one of our bags of secrets. A bag of secrets or ‘Baga de Secretis’ was used from the fifteenth century to keep court records from the most serious crimes, such as treason. The trial records for these cases were removed from their main series and put in these bags for safekeeping.

This particular bag used to keep records related to the Gunpowder Plot. Learn more about the Gunpowder Plot here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/gunpowder-plot/