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Baillie [Bailly], Charles (c. 1541–1625), conspirator and informer  

Peter Holmes

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Baillie [Bailly], Charles (c. 1541–1625), conspirator and informer, was probably born in the Low Countries of Scottish descent. He was a good linguist, and from about 1564 found employment in the household of Mary, queen of Scots. By 1571 he was in the service of ...

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Parry, William (d. 1585), spy and conspirator  

Julian Lock

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Parry, William (d. 1585), spy and conspirator, was the son of Harry ap David or Bethels (d. c.1566), guard in the royal household, of Northop, Flintshire, and his wife, Margaret. According to Parry, his mother was a Conway of Bodrythan, according to his enemies '...

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Porter, George [known as Captain Porter] (c. 1659–1728), Jacobite conspirator and informer  

Paul Hopkins

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Porter, George [known as Captain Porter] (c. 1659–1728), Jacobite conspirator and informer, was probably born in London, the only son of the dramatist Thomas Porter (1636–1680) by his second, legal, marriage to his first wife Anne Blount (c.1637–1659). His paternal grandfather was the courtier ...

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Richards, W. J. [alias William Oliver; called Oliver the Spy] (1774?–1827), spy and agent provocateur  

Malcolm Chase

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Richards, W. J. [alias William Oliver; called Oliver the Spy] (1774?–1827), spy and agent provocateur, claimed to have been born at Pontesbury, Shropshire. He may have been the Richard Richards baptized there on 21 October 1774, son of a father of the same name and his wife, ...