The infamous Cambridge Spy Ring is one of the biggest scandals to emerge in post war Britain. Unlike the Babington Spy Plot in 1586 it did not end well either.
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Lambert Simnel's Rebellion against King Henry VII, 1487
King Henry VII’s strangest threat during his reign comes from Lambert
Simnel.
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