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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.
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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] When charges were prepared against Mary, Queen of Scots, for her trial at Fotheringhay in 1586, evidence included her "most despitefull letter" deciphered by "Mr Sommer".