TheCodeBreakers
A conspiracy that involved the overthrow of the government naturally
had ramifications all over the country, and Babington also gained the
support of Philip II, who promised to send an expedition to help, once
Elizabeth was safely dead. But the plan depended ultimately on the
acquiescence of Mary, and to obtain this Babington had to communicate
with her.
This was no easy task. Mary was then being held incommunicado
under house arrest at the country estate of Chartley. But a handsome
former seminarian named Gilbert Gifford, recruited by Babington as a
messenger, discovered a way of smuggling Mary's letters into Chartley in
a beer keg. It worked so well that the French ambassador gave Gifford all
the correspondence that had been accumulating for Mary for the past
two years.
Much of it was enciphered. But this was only part of the care that
Mary took to ensure the security of her communications. She insisted
that important letters be written within her suite and read to her before
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