STC373632 Elizabeth hears of the Babington Plot, illustration from \'Hutchinson\'s Story of the British Nation\', c.1923 (litho) by Devis, Arthur William (1762-1822); Private Collection; (add.info.: Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England, hearing of the 1586 Babington Plot, a plot which sought have Elizabeth assassinated and replaced with Mary Queen of Scots; Led to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots; Sir Francis Walsingham (c.1532-90) is here shown revealing the plot to Elizabeth;); The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright.