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The real rulers get exposed,
This review is from: Plots and Plotters in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
Father Francis Edwards SJ, Jesuit Archivist, covers in high detail, as he calls it "a rare historical continuum in Anglo-Irish history which ran from 1558 until 1612, years dominated by William and Robert Cecil, father (Burghley) and son (Salisbury)." Besides the Cecils another important player was Sir Francis Walsingham, the spy-master of the British Empire who was the educator of John Dee, with overseas spy-agencies in Prague and Venice. The brokerage of money and power in few hands can only succeed when one runs the best spy- and intrigue business. Walsingham and the Cecils basicly routed out all major catholic competition in England by the use of agents provocateurs and agents of intrigue. Queen Elizabeth I was clearly used as public figure-head to lure catholic nobility in a deadly plot. They succeeded in almost all the planned plots. Francis Edwards SJ convincingly presents the case that the 1605 Gunpowder Plot was just one of many plots pursuing the anti-Catholic agenda of the Tudor/Stuart monarchy.
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Plots and Plotters in the Reign of Elizabeth I by Francis Edwards (Hardcover - June 2002)
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