Crossword-Solution: BABINGTON 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

CHURCHILL BABINGTON [_Swanston Cottage_, _Lothianburn_, _Summer_ 1871.] MY DEAR MAUD,—If you have forgotten the hand-writing—as is like enough—you will find the name of a former correspondent (don’t know how to spell that word) at the end.

Babington that I have never forgotten one of his drawings—a Rubens, I think—a woman holding up a model ship.

Babington’s “Manual of British Botany” is also most compact and highly finished, and seems the best work which I know of from which a student somewhat advanced in English botany can verify species; while for ferns, Moore’s “Handbook” is probably the best for beginners.

Babington then confided the scheme to some other Catholic gentlemen who were his friends, and they joined in it heartily.

They were vain, weak-headed young men, ridiculously confident, and preposterously proud of their plan; for they got a gimcrack painting made, of the six choice spirits who were to murder Elizabeth, with Babington in an attitude for the centre figure.