Babington plot

    Cards (5)

    • Anthony Babington came up with a plan to kill Elizabeth
    • He sent messages through beer barrels using codes
    • Marys servant who received the letter worked for Sir Francis Walsingham who took the letter to Elizabeth
    • Sir Francis Walsingham was Elizabeth's spy
    • Mary didn't want to execute her cousin so her secretary William Davison slipped Mary's death warrant into some papers
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