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Christopher Marlowe: Privy Council
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Between 1584 and 1587 Christopher Marlowe was believed to have been recruited as a spy into the network of Sir Thomas Walsingham. He disappeared, possibly to Europe on a spying mission and was awarded his MA on the instructions of the Privy Council
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Marlowe was arrested and examined by the Privy Council for the second time that winter. In the first instance, Marlowe, who was still being paid as an agent by the government, was arrested on the Dutch island of Flushing for allegedly forging coins and expressing pro-Catholic sympathies. The second time he was arrested he was released on condition that present himself to the authorities daily.
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The manner of Marlowe's arrest suggests causes more tangled than a simple charge of heresy would generally indicate. He was released in spite of prima facie evidence, and even though the charges implicitly connected Sir Walter Raleigh and the Earl of Northumberland with the heresy. Thus, it seems probable that the investigation was meant primarily as a warning to the politicians in the "School of Night," and/or that it was connected with a power struggle within the Privy Council itself.[17]
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Marlowe was arrested at Scadbury on 18 May 1593 on a charge of heresy brought after allegations made by Richard Baines. Baines appears to have been a doubtful witness, being hanged at Tyburn the following year for a ‘degrading offence’. Marlowe was freed following examination by the Privy Council on condition he remained within a few miles of the Court at Greenwich.
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On this day in 1593 Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council issued a warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe on charges of spreading "blasphemous and damnable opinions." Five days earlier Marlowe's roommate and fellow playwright, Thomas Kyd, had ... been arrested on similar charges; under torture (apparently a set piece on the rack called "scraping the conscience"), Kyd had claimed that the offending documents in his possession were in fact Marlowe's. FULL STORY »
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An informant filed a charge with the Privy Council saying of Marlowe: "... Almost into every company he cometh, he persuades men to atheism, willing them not to be afraid of bugbears and hobgoblins." The charge accused Marlowe of saying that "the first beginning of religion was only to keep men in awe" and that "all Protestants are hypocritical asses." It concluded: "All men in Christianity ought to endeavor that the mouth of so dangerous a member be stopped."
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