The arrest of Robert Dibdale in Southwark in 1586 was one of dozens of seminary priest arrests that followed the Babington Plot exposure. The Babington executions were followed by a systematic sweep through known Catholic safe houses in London and the home counties. Dibdale case illustrated how the intelligence network created by Walsingham was used to roll up Catholic networks across urban England.
Dibdale executed Tyburn October 1586
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