The discovery of the Spanish Blanks — letters signed by Huntly, Erroll, and other Catholic earls promising Philip II of Spain ports and landing sites for a Spanish invasion force — triggered a political-military crisis in 1592. James VI was forced by Kirk pressure to move against the earls. The documents had been seized from a carrier named George Kerr intercepted en route to Spain. The discovery revealed that the Catholic earls had been in active correspondence with Spain and that the northeast of Scotland had been offered as a landing zone for a Spanish army potentially larger than the Armada fleet.
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