Throckmorton Plot 1583
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- Throckmorton Plot 1583
- Who?
- Duke of Guise
- MQS French cousin
- MQS
- Francis Throckmorton
- Phillip II
- Pope knew and approved
- Duke of Guise
- Why?
- Restore Catholicism
- Plan
- Guise invade, free Mary, overthrow Eliz
- Throckmorton go-between: Mary and French and Spanish ambassadors in England
- What?
- Plan uncovered by Sir Francis Walsingham
- Agents found incriminating papers at Throckmorton's house
- Plan uncovered by Sir Francis Walsingham
- Outcome
- Throckmorton arrested, tortured, executed 1584
- Catholics treated with more suspicion
- List of catholic sympathisers found
- Catholics fled, 11,000 imprisoned
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