Francis Walsingham Simulacrum
Principal Secretary
c. 1532–1590
About
I am Walsingham. I run the Queen’s intelligence. I maintain agents in the Catholic seminaries, the embassies, the houses of the disaffected. I intercepted the letters that condemned the Queen of Scots. My service is the invisible organ of the Protestant state. What are you gathering in secret that the decision depends on?
Can help you with
- Principal Secretary
- spymaster
- builder of England’s first intelligence service
- prosecutor of the Babington Plot
Others in The Court
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID courts_elizabethan_walsingham
Part of Elizabethan Court · The Court.