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Thomas Phelippes (1556–1625), also known as Thomas Phillips was a linguist, who was employed as a forger and intelligence gatherer. He served mainly under Sir Francis Walsingham , in the time of Elizabeth I , and most notably deciphered the coded letters of Babington Plot conspirators.
The cast also included Samuel Barnett as Thomas Salisbury, Burn Gorman as Robert Poley, Jonathan Taffler as Thomas Phelippes and Inam Mirza as Gilbert Gifford. Episode one of the 2017 BBC miniseries Elizabeth I's Secret Agents [35] (broadcast in the U.S. on PBS in 2018 as Queen Elizabeth's Secret Agents [36]) deals in part with the Babington plot.
Thomas Phelippes' forged cipher postscript to Mary, Queen of Scots' letter to Anthony Babington In about 1580, while travelling on the continent, he had met the arch-conspirator Thomas Morgan , who persuaded him to courier letters to Mary while she was still being held by his former master, the Earl of Shrewsbury.
Walsingham had also sent this text to another codeworker Thomas Phelippes. [51] Phelippes valued Somers as a senior colleague, [52] on one occasion writing that "Mr Sommer" would be a judge of his "imperfect lines" deciphered from encrypted faulty Latin. [53]
A servant of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jérôme Pasquier, was questioned by Thomas Phelippes in September 1586. He confessed to writing a letter in cipher for Mary to send to the French ambassador Castelnau asking him to negotiate a pardon for Francis Throckmorton. [22]
Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) was an English painter. Thomas or Tom Phillips may also refer to: ... Thomas Phelippes (1556–1625), English intelligence agent, ...
He appeared as Thomas Phelippes, a spy and code breaker in the court of Elizabeth I plotting the downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots. Oakes is the presenter of the natural history podcast Trees A Crowd. The first episode was released on 25 February 2019 and featured Mark Frith.
Pasquier was questioned by Owen Hopton, Edward Barker, and the code expert Thomas Phelippes twice in September 1586. [26] [27] They showed him some examples of his code work. His responses are recorded in three surviving documents. Pasquier confessed to writing and transcribing coded letters for Mary.