Francis Throckmorton of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster. A search of his house produced incriminating evidence and, after torture on the rack, Throckmorton confessed his involvement in a plot to overthrow the Queen and restore the Catholic Church in England. An invasion led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, would have been coupled with an orchestrated uprising of Catholics within the country. Although Throckmorton later retracted his confession, he was convicted of high treason and executed in 1584. Sir Francis Throckmorton is featured in the film "", where he is played by Steven Robertson. In the film, he is shown asking
Thomas Walsingham Thomas Walsingham's literary pursuits. Walsingham was no relation to Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I. A modern edition of Walsingham's Chronica Maiora in: David Preest, "The" Chronica Maiora "of Thomas Walsingham 1376-1422", with Introduction and Notes by James G. Clark (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005). Thomas Walsingham Thomas Walsingham (died c. 1422) was an English chronicler, and is the source of much of the knowledge of the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and the careers of John Wycliff and Wat Tyler. Walsingham was a Benedictine monk who spent most of his life at St. Albans Abbey,