Babington

noun

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Examples from the Web for babington

Historical Examples of babington

There was hidden Charles Paget after the Babington conspiracy.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
E.V. Lucas
Ballard was first seized, and soon after Babington and his associates.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Lucy Aikin
This plot is known in history by the name of Babington's conspiracy.
Mary Queen of Scots, Makers of History
Jacob Abbott
Babington has been lodged in mine own house where I could watch him.
In Doublet and Hose
Lucy Foster Madison
Babington is to come with one hundred men and carry Mary off.
In Doublet and Hose
Lucy Foster Madison