Throckmorton Plot
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The Throckmorton Plot was an attempt by Catholics in 1583 to murder Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary Stuart. The plot is named after the key conspirator, Francis Throckmorton, who confessed to the plot under torture.
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[edit] Aims
The key aim was the assassination of Elizabeth I. The Catholics wished to free Mary Queen of Scots who, at that time, was under house arrest in England and place her on the throne of England to restore Catholicism. This assassination and installation of Mary Stuart as Queen was designed to coincide with an invasion of England led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, financed by Spain and the Pope, and a revolt of the Catholics in the country, involving both the Jesuits and William Allen.
== Francis Throckmorton was a Spanish ambassador he was arrested, because he was a go-between Mary And Mendoza. What he wanted was Mary Queen of Scots to be put back on the Scottish throne and also be put on the English throne for rightly having an heir to the throne being Elizabeth’s cousin But with help from his foreign troops. Part of Throckmorton’s plot was to use Henri Duc De Guises French troop to invade England and to cause havoc on our majesty. He agreed to this because Henri was Mary’s cousin.
[edit] Events
The plot was unsuccessful. After discovering incriminating evidence in his house, Francis Walsingham tortured Throckmorton into a confession.
[edit] Result
The plot itself resulted in the creation of the Bond of Association, a document drafted by Francis Walsingham and William Cecil, Lord Burghley, which obliged all signatories to execute anyone who attempted to usurp the throne or assassinate (successfully or not) Elizabeth.
[edit] Punishment
Thorckmorton was convicted of high treason and executed in 1584. Although Mary Queen of Scots was undoubtedly involved, Elizabeth refused to execute her as she believed in the Divine Right of Monarchs.
[edit] References
O'Day, Rosemary (1995). The Tudor Age. England: Longman Group Limited.
Warren, John (2002). Elizabeth I: Religion and Foreign Affairs. Singapore: Hodder Murray.
Lotherington, John (ed.) (1994). The Tudor Years. Hodder and Stoughton.
