Throckmorton

• When was the Throckmorton Plot

  1583
• causes of Throckmorton Plot

  1. Papal Bull (1570)
  2. Harsher catholic laws
• Throckmorton Plan:


  1. Duke of guise was to come to free Mary QoS
  2. King Phillip offered to cover the cost
  3. Pope approved for the plan
  4. Francis Throckmorton passed letters from Mary to plotters
• Why did Throckmorton fail?

  Francis Walsingham (spymaster)found letters that listed all of the rebels
• Consequences:

  1. throckmorton was tortured and executed
  2. 11000 Catholics imprisoned
  3. New laws made that made sheltering Catholic Priests a capital crime