Main Plot, England, 1603

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Name (Latin)
Main Plot, England, 1603
See Also From tracing place name
Great Britain
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q6736034
Library of congress: sh2006004860
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: The succession, Bye and Main Plots of 1601-1603, c2006:p. 157 (The Bye and Main plots, interconnected through George Brooke, Anthony Copley, and Sir Griffin Markham)
  • Columbia companion to British history, c1997:Main Plot, 1603 (scheme of Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, to replace James I with his cousin, Arabella Stuart; the government linked it with a scheme to kidnap James and extort a promise of toleration of Catholics from him (the Bye Plot))
  • Sir William Waad, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Gunpowder Plot, 2005:p. 5 (in the Main Plot, the plan was to kill James I and his family, encourage a Spanish army to land at Milford Haven, and to place Lady Arabella Stuart on the throne)
  • Wikipedia, June 28, 2006(The Main Plot was a conspiracy by English Catholics, allegedly led by lay Catholic Lord Cobham, to remove King James I of England from the English throne, replacing him by aid of Spain with his cousin Arabella (or Arbella) Stuart; plot was discovered by questioning prisoners arrested in connection with the Bye Plot)