Babington

• The plan (B):

  Assassinate Elizabeth, encourage Catholic uprising and put Mary on the throne. Pope's blessing and Spain's support.
• What happened?

  Mary sent letters to and received letters from her agent in Paris and to Babington. Walsingham and his cipher clerks decoded the messages
• What happened after (B)?

  Babington was arrested and executed as a traitor in September 1586

  Mary was executed in 1587
• Why was Mary's execution significant?

  • Removed target and prize of future plots
  • Philip II had been planning to invade since 1585 so the execution gave him another reason to
  • Mary left her claim to the throne to Philip II on her death
  • End of Catholic Monarch replacing Elizabeth