Elizabethan Espionage
Subtitle: Plotters and Spies in the Struggle Between Catholicism and the Crown
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781476662558
Subjects: Espionage, british; Spies; Great britain, history, elizabeth, 1558-1603; Great britain, foreign relations; Great britain, politics and government, 1485-1603
Description: "In the wake of the 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada, English Catholics launched an ingenious counterespionage effort to undermine the Tudor government's anti-Catholic machinations. Queen Elizabeth long maintained spies and provocateurs among English Catholic exiles. Walsingham, her principal secretary, used treachery to foster plots against the queen to justify harsh measures against Catholics"--