This event inspired an elegy that begins "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares," written by Chidiock Tichborne the eve before he was executed for his part in it.
This event inspired an elegy that begins "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares," written by Chidiock Tichborne the eve before he was executed for his part in it. Its discovery was aided by Thomas Phelippes' skill at cryptography and the duplicity of Gilbert Gifford, who would arrange for seditious letters to be transported through barrels, but not before letting them be intercepted by the royal Secretary of State, Francis Walsingham. Occurring after the Throckmorton and Ridolfi Plots, in which the same rival sovereign was involved, it forced the English ruler to acknowledge the threat of a Catholic coup posed by her cousin and have her tried for treason. FTP, identify this plot for which Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded, an attempt by its namesake to overthrow Elizabeth I.
This event inspired an elegy that begins "My prime of youth is but a frost of cares," written by Chidiock Tichborne the eve before he was executed for his part in it.
{Babington} Plot