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	Luminarium Encyclopedia: Anthony Babington (c. 1561-1586) and the Babington Plot
		ANTHONY BABINGTON (1561-1586), English conspirator, son of Henry Babington of Dethick in Derbyshire, and of Mary, daughter of George, Lord Darcy, was born in October 1561, and was brought up secretly a Roman Catholic.
		Babington then applied for a passport abroad, for the ostensible purpose of spying upon the refugees, but in reality to organize the foreign expedition and secure his own safety.
		Miller, Margaret J. Plot for the Queen: The Babington plot.
	www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/babington.htm (708 words)

	Babington Plot - Biocrawler
		The Babington Plot was the event which most directly led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
		John Ballard, a Jesuit priest and Catholic agent, persuaded Babington to become involved in a plot to overthrow and/or murder Queen Elizabeth I of England, replacing her on the throne with the Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, who had for many years been imprisoned at Fotheringhay in the east of England.
		The story of the Babington Plot is dramatised in the novel "Conies in the Hay" by Jane Lane.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Babington_Plot (248 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		Babington, who had been drawn into this clandestine circle by virtue of the help he had given Ballards associates, looked upon Ballard as a guiding light, and willingly accepted the responsibility of helping to mastermind the plot that generally bears his name.
		Babington replied in a long and provocative letter describing all the means to be taken for the murder of Elizabeth and the deliverance of Mary.
		The historical importance of the plot lies in the complicity of Mary Stuart.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /babingtonplot.asp (1589 words)

	Plot Information
		Examples are the Babington plot, the July 20 Plot or the Passover Plot.
		The chief character in a plot is a protagonist and he or she is pitted against an antagonist.
		Plot also refers to a drawn graphical representation of data, such as the output of a plotter or the process of plotting data by hand.
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	Babington plot
		The Babington Plot was the event which led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
		John Ballard, a Jesuit priest and Catholic agent, persuaded Babington to become involved in a plot to overthrow and/or murder Queen Elizabeth I of England, replacing her on the throne with the Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, who had for many years been imprisoned at Fotheringhay in the east of England.
		Babington and his friend were captured and executed in 1586, Mary herself in the following year.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/b/ba/babington_plot.html (190 words)

	Plot
		An example of the type of plot which follows these sorts of lines is the linear plot of development to be discerned within the pages of a bildungsroman novel.
		The concept of plot and the associated concept of construction of plot, emplotment[?], has of course developed considerably since Aristotle made these insightful observations.
		A plot is a drawn graphical representation of data, such as the output of a plotter or the process of plotting data by hand.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pl/Plot.html (283 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		His confession of plotting with the Spanish ambassador in Elizabeth's court, Mendoza, to levy Catholic troops upon the invasion of England by Spain, was he believed insufficient evidence to convict according to the statute of 13 Elizabeth.
		Sir Thomas Gerard is imprisoned in the Tower for suspected complicity in the Babington Plot after a previous attempt at insurrection established him as a known recusant and insurgent.
		A further seven conspirators were later tried for complicity in the Babington Plot (Edward Abington or Habington, the brother of Thomas Habington who featured later in the events surrounding the Gunpowder Plot, Charles Tilney, Edward Jones, John Charnock, John Travers, Jerome Bellamy, and Robert Gage).
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /timeline3.asp (1946 words)

	Secrets and Spies
		A friend of John Ballard, Gifford was involved in the Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I. He betrayed Ballard and Babington by passing all the secret letters between Mary and the conspirators to Sir Francis Walsingham.
		Spanish Ambassador in London (1578-84) and supporter of the cause of Mary, Queen of Scots, Mendoza was implicated in the Throckmorton Plot and exiled in 1584.
		Cipher clerk to Cardinal James Beaton, Mary, Queen of Scots’; ambassador in Paris, Morgan was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1584 for plotting against Elizabeth I. He played a key role in the Babington Plot by recommending Gifford and Babington to Mary.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /spies/biography/default.htm (1316 words)

	Bringing Down A Queen: A Research Paper Analyzing The Babington Plot Of 1586
		The Babington plot originated amid volatile foreign affairs that threatened the realm and crown of Elizabeth I. The volatility of these affairs was in large part due to the religio-political upheaval between Catholics and Protestants throughout Europe.
		The Babington plot initially consisted of two separate plots: a plot by the Spanish to invade England and raise Mary to the English throne and another plot to assassinate Elizabeth.
		Babington informed Mary of the foreign plans for invasion; the plans of English Catholics for insurrection; and, his own plans to take six men in his charge to rescue Mary from Chartley (accompanied by a hundred men), and to send another six men (of whom Savage was a key member) to assassinate Elizabeth.
	www.anduril.ca /bible/essays/ce_his228.html (4547 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Babington plot
		The Babington Plot was the event which led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
		Walsingham ensured that Mary was fully implicated in the plot before pouncing on the conspirators and ensuring their failure and conviction on charges of treason.
		Babington and his friends were captured and executed in 1586, Mary herself in the following year.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Babington_plot (175 words)

	Babington plot
		Spanish Ambassador in London (1578-84), Mendoza was implicated in the Throckmorton Plot and exiled in 1584.
		Babington informed Mary of the foreign plans for invasion; the plans of English Catholics for insurrection; and, his own plans to take six men in his charge to rescue Mary from Chartley accompanied by a hundred men, and to send Savage with another six men to assassinate Elizabeth.
		The discovery of the details of the plot, along with the Stafford plot of 1587 to blow up Elizabeth by putting gunpowder under her bed, finally convinced Elizabeth that she would not be safe as long as Mary lived.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Documents/Babington_plot.htm (1534 words)

	Derbyshire People - Anthony Babington - a 16th century conspirator
		Anthony Babington was born in 1561, in Dethick, Derbyshire, son of Sir Henry Babington, a wealthy Derbyshire Landowner, and Mary d'Arcy, daughter of George, 1st Lord d'Arcy of Aston in Yorks.
		Babington served as a page to Mary Queen of Scots during her imprisonment at Sheffield.
		Babington fled but was captured at Harrow and executed with the other conspirators.
	www.derbyshireuk.net /babington.html (187 words)

	SparkNotes: Queen Elizabeth I: Conflict with Mary Queen of Scots
		Several plots against Elizabeth were discovered in the following years: the Ridolfi Plot (1571), the Duke de Guise Plot (1582), and the Babington Plot (1586).
		In October of 1586, Mary Queen of Scots was found guilty of complicity in the Babington Plot to overthrow the Queen.
		It was Walsingham's crafty espionage that uncovered Mary Queen of Scot's involvement in the Babington Plot.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/elizabeth/section7.rhtml (982 words)

	History Magazine
		The most significant of these was the Babington Plot, which ultimately led to Mary's trial and execution in 1587.
		This plot failed and numerous of its conspirators were arrested, but Babington convinced Elizabeth that he was a devoted Protestant and was accepted into her court.
		What Babington and Mary did not realize, however, was that their letters were being intercepted by Elizabeth's spies.
	www.history-magazine.com /babington.html (768 words)

	Babington Plot
		Babington was arrested and his home was searched for documents that would provide evidence against him.
		Anthony Babington and six others were executed for high treason on 18 September, 1586.
		Elizabeth was also against Mary Stuart being executed for her part in the plot, and for six weeks refused to sign her death warrant.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDbabingtonP.htm (717 words)

	Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Babington and the other conspirators were caught, tried and executed, even though most of them were opposed to the assassination and wanted only to rescue Mary.
		This suggests her innocence, for she must have suspected that her letter to Babington had been intercepted; she obviously did not expect to be confronted with anything incriminating in the letter, or else she could have continued to stand on her royal dignity and to refuse to attend the trial.
		And the original ciphers of Babington's and Mary's letters are not extant although all the ciphers of other letters that Mary wrote the same day she replied to Babington are extant.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~jmcgill/project.html (3798 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Plot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mixing the sprightly songs and sketchy plots of operetta with the topical numbers of the revue, musical comedy began in England at the end of...
		The plot was betrayed, and Fawkes, surrounded by barrels of gunpowder, was arrested in a building adjacent to the House of Lords.
		Catholic plot and today's terrorism; It may be 400 years since the Gunpowder Plot was hatched in the Midlands but the events bear a startling parallel to today's terrorist activities, as Sarah Probert discovers.(News)
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Babington, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Babington Plot (1586) A conspiracy to co-ordinate a Spanish invasion of England with a rising of English Catholics, to assassinate ELIZABETH I, and to replace her on the throne with MARY, Queen of Scots.
		The phrase was first used by Thomas Babington Macaulay when he wrote (1828) of the House of Commons that: “The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realmx201D; This was an expansion of the concept of the three...
		Gunpowder Plot A Catholic scheme to murder JAMES I of England and his Parliament at the state opening on 5 November 1605, to be followed by a national Catholic uprising and seizure of power.
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		According to English law, a plot made against Elizabeth in favor of Mary, even if the Scottish queen was not directly involved, was reason enough for the death penalty.
		Babington, who was only 25 years old at the time of the plot, and his English Catholic friends thought of Mary as a martyr to the religion she held so dear.
		After the plot was exposed, Babington and the six men who planned to murder Elizabeth were killed in a savage way.
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	Plot Files
		A plot is a drawn graphical representation of data, such as the output of a plotter or the process of ''plotting data'' by hand.
		A plot hole is a gap in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic set-up by the plot.
		Plot holes are usually seen as weaknesses and flaws in a story, and writers try to avoid them (except in certain deliberate circumstances) to make their stories seem as realistic and lifelike as possible.
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	Plot - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Plot, the organization of events and actions in a narrative or dramatic piece of work; the overall scheme which its author deploys to achieve a...
		Doctors' Plot, alleged conspiracy in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)—later shown to have been fabricated by the Soviet secret...
		Gunpowder Plot, conspiracy to blow up King James I and the assembled two Houses of Parliament at the State Opening of Parliament in November 1605....
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	Definition of Babington plot
		The Babington Plot was the event which most directly led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.
		John Ballard, a Jesuit priest and Catholic agent, persuaded Babington to become involved in a plot to overthrow and/or murder Queen Elizabeth I of England, replacing her on the throne with the Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, who had for many years been imprisoned at Fotheringhay in the east of England.
		Walsingham ensured that Mary was fully implicated in the plot before pouncing, thus ensuring the plotters' conviction on charges of treason.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Babington_plot (251 words)

	Peck, Castle-Come-Down, chapter 19 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On Monday, the 31st of July, Babington met Robert Poley and instructed him to tell Walsingham that he, Babington, knew of a horrible great plot to murder the queen of England, that an unsavory priest named Ballard was the setter on of it, and that he meant to do his duty to reveal it entirely.
		Babington dashed the whole distance home and with furious haste wrote a letter of complaint to the Secretary, remonstrating with him for having arrested Ballard before he, Babington, had had a chance to lay the whole situation before him.
		Babington shrieked when he realized that Poley was arresting him, and he shrieked again as he threw the man into a cart standing near and dashed away in terror.
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	Family Ancestry England Rebellions
		Following this resistance, the Babington Plot (1586) was the third and ultimate conspiracy to release Mary.
		The conspiracy by Babington and Sir Francis Walsingham, the Secretary of Country, is identified as the cause of the execution of Mary.
		Other secret schemes and conspiracies were the Dudley Conspiracy which occurred in 1555, the Ridolfi Plot in 1571, the Throckmorton Plot in 1583, the William Parry Plot in 1585, the Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the Dr.
	www.family-ancestry.co.uk /history/tudor/england/rebellions (839 words)

	Sir Francis Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster & John Thurloe: Cromwell's Spymaster
		The many plots originating among the Catholic powers of the Continent, all of whom were her sworn enemies, either to coerce Elizabeth back to the papal fold or to destroy her, were thwarted by Sir Francis's ceaseless vigilance.
		It was through this discovery that Walsingham was able to unmask the Babington plot for the assassination of Queen Elizabeth, but in the message which revealed this project the identity of the six men who were in the plot was concealed by code-numbers for which there was no clue in the context.
		While Babington was waiting a message was brought in to the assistant who was dealing with him: it was from Walsingham himself and urged that an agent should be told to shadow Babington.
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	Captivity & Plots (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This was the beginning of a series of plots against the English Protestant crown carried out in Mary's name but without her permission or approval.
		The main instigators of the Ridolfi Plot were Mary's ambassador in England, Leslie Bishop of Ross, and an Italian banker Roberto Ridolfi.
		The Plot which was destined to fail from the start was brought to a halt when a packet of letters from Ridolfi to Leslie was intercepted at Dover.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /England.htm (1695 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		So when Mary thought her responses to a genuine plotter, Anthony Babington, were going to his house in London, they were in fact going straight to the overjoyed Walsingham.
		Babington's plan was to kill Elizabeth, start a Catholic uprising, and support it with a Spanish invasion from the Netherlands.
		Furious at Mary's collusion in the Babington plot, Elizabeth wrote her in a tone usually reserved for weekend guests who have made off with the towels.
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	Queen Elizabeth I: Biography, Portraits, Primary Sources
		Mary, queen of Scots - the duke of Norfolk's scheme of 1569, the Throckmorton Plot of 1583, and the Babington Plot of 1586.
		After the plot to marry Norfolk and the Northern Rebellion failed in 1569, Mary increasingly turned to her foreign supporters.
		Babington was only a half-hearted conspirator, but Walsingham was content to use him to lure Mary into a final trap.
	englishhistory.net /tudor/monarchs/eliz4.html (2422 words)

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