Plots and Revolts at Home
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- Plots and Revolts at Home
- The Revolt of the Northern Earls
- rebels
- Thomas Percy (Earl of Northumberland)
- Ann Percy
- Jane Neville
- Charles Neville (Earl of Westmorland)
- Thomas Howard (Duke of Norfolk)
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Reasons
- make catholic again
- Earl lost influence and wanted it back
- Elizabeth's refusal to marry or name an heir left uncertainty
- Significance
- Mary not trusted
- pope encouraged Catholics to depose of her
- Catholics are not trusted
- Elizabeth's control strengthens
- rebels
- Walsingham's Spies
- Walsingham
- provided intelligence in defeating plots
- unmasked Mary & put pressure on Elizabeth to execute her
- deterred further plots
- Spy network
- spies in each town
- agents paid & trained by the government
- used spies abroad
- had paid informants
- used ciphers for all correspondence
- agent provocateurs= encourage people to become involved in plots
- used torture & execution
- Walsingham
- The Throckmorton Plot & Babington Plot
- Throckmorton significance
- reveal extent of threat of all Catholics & Mary
- showed threat from France & Spain
- laws passed against sheltering a Catholic
- Babington significance
- Spain & England virtually at war
- Government determined to crush Catholics
- persecution of Catholics
- Execution of Mary
- no hope to replace Elizabeth with a Catholic heir
- Throckmorton significance
- The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mary involved in plots
- Walsingham unearthed evidence
- Mary and Spanish threat
- Mary was alternative monarch
- Increased chance of cival war
- significance
- set a dangerous path
- angered Phillip
- Elizabeth was without and heir
- removal of important threat
- The Ridolfi Plot
- failure of RNE= Catholics suspicious
- laws implemented against Catholics
- Ridolfi Plot
- laws implemented against Catholics
- Significance
- Catholics & Mary a threat
- Clear threat from Spain
- England need to improve relations with France
- Catholics monitor Catholics more
- failure of RNE= Catholics suspicious
- The Revolt of the Northern Earls
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