Unit 6: Catholic threat within England
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- Catholic threat within England
- Seminary priests
- Sent to England to re-convert Protestants.
- Trained in scripture - challenge Bible scripture
- Offered confession: attractive to those who had not fully accepted settlement.
- Jesuits
- Arrived in England: 1580
- Didn't care about treason against Queen
- Carried out spiritual exercises: profound religious experience
- Revived latent beliefs in former-Catholics
- Established safe houses where they could hide from authorities
- Arrived in England: 1580
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Arrival led to Spanish interference on domestic scene
- Catholics regarded her claim to throne as legitimate
- Throckmorton Plot, 1583-6
- Reassert Catholic control of Scot - use it to invade England.
- To place Mary on English throne
- Babington Plot, 1586-87
- Gilford - Catholic exile confessed to plotting for Mary
- MAry agreed to plot - evidence needed for her removal
- Arrival led to Spanish interference on domestic scene
- Seminary priests
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