Babington Plot

The Babington Plot is a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and put her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne instead.

Babington Plot Media

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  Walsingham's "Decypherer" forged this cipher postscript to Mary's letter to Babington. It asks Babington to use the – broken – cipher to tell her the names of the conspirators.

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  Mary in captivity, c. 1578

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  Walsingham

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  The cipher code of Mary, Queen of Scots

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  The execution of Queen Mary by James Dromgole Linton