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Was Sir Nicholas Throckmorton ever accused of conspiring on behalf of Mary Queen of Scots?

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A supporter of the proposed match between the duke of Norfolk and Mary, he came under Elizabeth's suspicions. He was imprisoned in 1569 for his supposed complicity in the rebellion of the northern English Roman Catholics, but he was soon released.

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