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Babington
/ ˈbæbɪŋtən /
noun
- BabingtonAnthony15611586MEnglishPOLITICS: conspirator Anthony 1561–86, English conspirator, executed for organizing an unsuccessful plot (1586) to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne
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Gervase Babington died; bishop of Worcester and an eminent theological writer.
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Among the eminent men of letters of the present century, Thomas Babington Macaulay takes a very high position.
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That the unfortunate Babington had rested some hope of life on Ralegh's known Court influence is but a coincidence.
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Babington was the first to attempt to decipher them, or at all events to find the key by which to decipher them.
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Many other executions were held in those fields, notably those of Babington and his accomplices in 1586, fourteen in all.
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