Babington
- Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
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Historical Examples
There was hidden Charles Paget after the Babington conspiracy.
Highways & Byways in SussexE.V. Lucas
Ballard was first seized, and soon after Babington and his associates.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethLucy Aikin
This plot is known in history by the name of Babington's conspiracy.
Mary Queen of Scots, Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
Babington has been lodged in mine own house where I could watch him.
In Doublet and HoseLucy Foster Madison
Babington is to come with one hundred men and carry Mary off.
In Doublet and HoseLucy Foster Madison