| 词条 | Bond of Association |
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The Bond of Association was a document created in 1584 by Francis Walsingham and William Cecil after the failure of the Throckmorton Plot in 1583. ContentsThe document obliged all signatories to execute any person that:
In the latter case, it also made it obligatory for the signatories to hunt down the killer. Royal approvalElizabeth authorised the Bond to achieve statutory authority. ImplicationsThe Bond of Association was a key legal precedent for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587. Walsingham discovered alleged evidence that Mary, in a letter to Anthony Babington, had given her approval to a plot to assassinate Elizabeth and by Right of Succession take the English throne. Ironically, Mary herself was a signatory of the Bond. References{{cite book| last = Ridley | first = Jasper | title = Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue | publisher = Fromm International | date = 1987 | pages = 254 }}{{cite book | last = O'Day | first = Rosemary | title = The Tudor Age | publisher = Longman Group Limited | date = 1995 | location = England }} 2 : British monarchy|1584 in law |
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