 During her sister's reign, though there was always the danger of being executed as a heretic, she seems to have been more worried that enough fabricated evidence would be produced to condemn her as being involved in the plot to set herself up on the throne.During Mary's reign, there were numerous plots to replace Mary with Elizabeth, though there is no evidence that she participated in any of them.Elizabeth was arrested, sent to the Tower but released after a few months and sent to Woodstock under house arrest as depicted.