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Why was Sir Nicholas Throckmorton imprisoned n the Tower of London?

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He supported, for a time, the claims of Lady Jane Grey to the throne, and in 1554 he was tried for complicity in the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt . Although acquitted, he was kept in the Tower until 1555.

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