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Elizabeth was cautious, however, and had Mary imprisoned in a number of castles over the course of nineteen years before ordering her execution. As a Catholic, and rival Queen with a legitimate claim to the English throne, her very presence in England was a great threat to Elizabeth and Mary became entangled, whether knowingly or not, in a number of plots against Elizabeth.<ref>Guy, 442.</ref>
There were rebellions by Catholic Lords in the North of England, and plots to replace Elizabeth with Mary through the help of Spanish troops. Pope Gregory XIII even endorsed a plan to invade England from the Spanish Netherlands and wed Mary to Don John of Austria, half-brother to Phillip II of Spain.<ref>Fraser, 446. </ref> In 1586 Mary was implicated in the Babington Plot, through a series of her own letters that were deciphered as they were smuggled out of her chambers. The letters directly linked Mary to an assassination plot against Elizabeth.<ref>Weir, ''Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley'', 507.</ref>
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