Mary Queen of Scots

~ The Babington Plot

James V and Mary of Guise ~ Mary’s parent

In 1548

In 1558, they got married.

France

1560

Mother-in-law

In 1565 Mary married her first cousin, Darnley. In fact, Darnley was a vicious man.

Darnley was strangled in the house that was blown up.

Bothwell

Mary escaped from the jail and headed to English.

Mary had made a terrible misjudgment.

Elizabeth offered Mary nothing more than another prison.The reasons :1.Mary probably instigated someone to kill Darnley.2.Mary was considered as a true queen of England.

Mary was imprisoned for 18 years.

Babington was a leader of the assassination.

Gifford

Nomenclator

Gifford had written letters to Walsingham and wanted to serve him.

Minister

A spymaster who was responsible for the security of the queen.

Each time Gifford collected a message to or from Mary, he would first take it to Walsingham.

Phelippes

Walsingham established a cipher school in London and employed Thomas Phelippes as his cipher secretary.

School

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Gradually he put the nulls to one side. Eventually all that remained were the handful of code words.

Walsingham asked Phelippes to forge a postscript to Mary’s letter, which would entice Babington to name names.

Babington needed to go abroad to organize the invasion.

The bureaucrat took the Babington a nearby tavern.He slipped out of the back door and escaped.

On August 15, Babington and his six colleagues were captured and brought to London.

On August 11, Mary Queen of Scots had been arrested.

The trial was held in Fotheringhay Castle.

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On Wednesday, October 15. Mary’s main defense was to deny any connection with Babington.

Mary spoke aloud her own prayers for the salvation of the English Catholic Church, for his son and for Elizabeth. Then she died.

~ The end ~

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