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festering plot. These enciphered missives were being solved by Phelippes
almost as quickly as he got his hands on them. As the conspiracy
reached a crescendo of preparation in the middle of July, he was
sometimes reading two or more in a day: two letters from the queen bear
notations "decifred 18 July 1586," two others are marked as deciphered
July 21, and there are still other cipher letters in the same packet in the
records that bear no notations.
During these three months, Walsingham cannily made no arrests, but
simply let the plot develop and the correspondence accumulate in the
hope that Mary would incriminate herself. His expectations were fulfilled.
Early in July, Babington specified the details of the plan in a letter to
Mary, referring to the Spanish invasion, her own deliverance, and "the
dispatch of the usurping competitor." Mary considered her reply for a
week and, after composing it carefully, had Curll encipher it; she sent it
off to Babington on July 17
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