throckmorton plot
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- Created on: 24-10-19 21:34
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- throckmorton plot
- plot
- french duke of guise plotted to invade england, other throw elizabeth free mary, make it catholic
- phillip 2 offered to help pay for the plot and the pope approved
- throckmorton passed letters between mary and plotters
- failure
- walsingham discovered the plot in may 1583
- november 1583 spies found papers showing his part
- he was arrested and tortured he was executed in may 1584
- significance
- revealed extent of foreign threat
- confirming enemy within
- showed potential threat from france and spain
- government treated english catholics with greater suspicion. many fled whilst others were imprisoned or kept under house arrest
- 1585 it became punishable by death to shelter priests
- plot
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