1586- babington plot

• Babington Plot

  1586
• Leaders of the Babington Plot

  • Duke of Guise (cousin of Mary, Queen of Scots)
  • Phillip
• Plan of the Babington Plot

  Same as Throckmorton Plot
• key events

  • Anthony Babington, a catholic with links to France, writes to Mary, Queen of Scots in July 1586
  • Letters are intercepted and read by Walsingham
  • All plotters arrested
• significance

  • Relations between Spain and England completely broken down
  • Government now determined to crush Catholicism in England - mass arrests of recusants
  • Last Catholic heir to English throne dead
• After math

  • Babington and other plotters executed
  • 1586- Mary found guilty of treason by privy council. Elizabeth eventually signed the death warrant.
  • 1587 Mary QOS was executed