1586 was the year when treachery came to the fore. Jane Lane sketches the master of espionage, Francis Walsingham, in the bright, lurid colours of the deceit for which he was renowned. Babington and his fellow conspirators are duped by Walsingham into betraying Mary, Queen of Scots, only to be hounded to their own awful destruction.
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1586 was the year when treachery came to the fore. Jane Lane sketches the master of espionage, Francis Walsingham, in the bright, lurid colours of the deceit for which he was renowned. Babington and his fellow conspirators are duped by Walsingham into betraying Mary, Queen of Scots, only to be hounded to their own awful destruction.
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