Anthony Babington

Today’s barbarism lacks the utter doom and horror of the time just after the Middle Ages. Anthony Babington sought with co-conspirators to release Mary, Queen of Scots. The idea bubbled to the surface to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

The plot remained deep. Fourteen conspirators anticipated relinquishing Mary from her house arrest at Chartley Hall.

Babington yelled “Spare me, Lord Jesus” when he had been executed. Other Conspirators had been castrated and disemboweled with life still in them. Mary Queen of Scots lost her head in 1587.

All of this shows the savagery of those times and leads one to wonder if we have improved as a society. It would appear so. Crimes have fallen dramatically since then even with conspiracies to release queens.

Babington had an ounce of honor on his shoulders but it seemed like the same idea to shun freedom and to be enslaved by other rulers and monarchs.

Though dedicated, Babington just wanted to pledge loyalty to his queen without looking forward to liberty.

As far as the other thirteen men wishing to be ruled by Mary, they made the thought of attempting to rescue her without thinking of the consequences.

The English wanted to be ruled by Elizabeth. Mary stood in the way of that notion. Before her top got popped, she had been a dominant force in Scotland. What everyone had failed to see in those days was the notion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

These precious ideals did not register in the minds of the populace. Like William Wallace, all the conspirators just yearned to be under some authority that had been blessed by the womb lottery.

The traitors' deaths still resonate to this day. They represent the ugliness of Medieval times. While renaissance fairs sell turkey legs and showcase jousts, they hardly ever display simulated beheadings and castrations.

It’s quite curious that little to no blacks show up in this period. Where were they? Still in Africa? Some blacks had to be around England in Elizabethan times. What Babington did seems like something that would happen centuries later in the United States of America in Nat Turner. Only the motives differ; the two men fought for something, believed in something and experienced execution in the process.

Babington will forever go down as the man who wanted to bleed for the Queen of Scots. Although he cried out for mercy to the supernatural, he still maintained a vestige of honor for trying to go after his goals. That did him in, but at least he lived and died for a cause.

He represented a man who had focused on the singular aim to reclaim his leader. Without thinking about the consequences, these fourteen souls pushed to have Mary restored to her place at the throne. All of their flesh kissed metal nevertheless.

How they took seriously their mission spoke to their ability to bring the chivalry up a few notches. The bloodshed only instilled a growing sense of a change to come in the West.

The Age of Reason and Enlightenment had been right around the corner. Men and women would be able to break the chains of their oppressors. Maybe that’s what it was….The evil of altruism reigned supreme during this entire period. People did things to satisfy others rather than preserve the minds, their bodies, their lives.

Babington will forever be the figurehead for living for others instead of self. As a loyal pet to Mary, he wished to do only good by her knowing that she would never return the favor for him. What? Was she going to install him in her cabinet? Even if she had been freed, Babington would forever be a sycophant.