The Throckmorton Plot, uncovered by Walsingham's espionage, exposed Mary Queen of Scots as an active conspirator against Elizabeth.

47:00>> cipher. Right. >> And amazingly, a cache of her letters were found as recently as 2024 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and they show conclusively that Mary Queen of Scots, you know, is not a passive bystander in this. You know, she's not just a cipher being used by Guise for his own interest. She was actually an active conspirator in this plot. >> Yeah. So, this has been debated by

47:26historians for decades, for centuries. >> Yeah. >> Was Mary effectively framed? You know, was she being used by more Machiavellian people? Was she naive? Or was you know, did she join in the plots? Was she an Exactly, an active agent in the conspiracy? And and basically, the this recent evidence suggests there's no question whatsoever. >> Yes. It does. >> She knew exactly what she was doing. She'd roll up her sleeves. She got stuck

47:54in. >> Yeah. And so, a result of this, the the residency of the French ambassador, Salisbury Court, which is a house of grand very grand house of Fleet Street, this makes it a kind of key focus of the conspiracy that is being hatched by Guise. You know, he he he essentially it's the nerve center for operations within England itself. >> Right. >> However, Walsingham, the great spy chief of Elizabeth, all

48:18along has had moles in the French Embassy in Salisbury Court. And one of them goes by the code name of Henry >> Great code name. >> And the identity of this uh mole is very controversial. So, in 1991, the the great historian of of these topics, John Bossy, he published a book arguing that this this mole, Henry had actually been a very very famous name in Renaissance philosophy. Um and