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    QUEEN ELIZABETH ASSASSINATED

    Jun 20, 2019 5 minutes
    Interview by Jonathan O’Callaghan

    What were the events leading up to the Babington Plot in 1586?

    Mary, Queen of Scots had been under house arrest, effectively a prison, since her arrival in England in May 1568 and she spent time at various country houses. She was heavily guarded, particularly in the 1570s after the Northern Rebellion. Just before the Babington Plot, there had been the discovery of another plot which we call the Throckmorton Plot, which had involved France and Spain and it had been almost certainly designed not just to free Mary, but also to invade England and overturn the government. The Babington Plot, as far as we can tell, is a plot [by Sir Anthony Babington] to release Mary from her prison and to assassinate Elizabeth I.

    How did the Babington Plot play out?

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