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Anthony Babington , 1561-86, English conspirator. A member of the Roman Catholic gentry, he served as a youth in the household of the earl of Shrewsbury at Sheffield Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned. In 1586 he became involved in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I, to free Mary, and to make England a Catholic realm. The plot was discovered, Babington was executed, and the evidence against him was also used to convince Elizabeth that it was necessary to behead Mary.

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Babington plot, 1586. Anthony Babington (1561–86), a Derbyshire gentleman and a catholic page in Mary Stuart's service in England, was contacted by John Ballard, a catholic priest. The plan was to kill Elizabeth and secure the freedom of Mary. Babington's failure was engineered by Sir Francis Walsingham, who recruited a catholic, Gilbert Gifford, as an agent. Babington was executed in September 1586 and the plot sealed the fate of Mary by convincing Elizabeth that she was incorrigible.

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