babington plot
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- Created on: 24-10-19 22:08
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- babington plot
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- babington wrote to mary in 1586 about the plot
- walsington intercepted and read the letters to mary
- babington and plotters were hung drawn and executed
- mary
- october 1586 mary was sentenced to death but was beheaded in february 1587
- significance
- 1585 england and spain were virtually at war.
- government became determined to crush catholic threat
- persecution of catholics intensified 1585 11000 were arrested. 1856 31 priests were killed
- mary was executed along with any hope of replacing elizabeth
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