up. Babington was in the Tower of London by 3 September when Burghley ordered his goods and papers at Dethick to be seized. The house was almost empty except for his two sisters, Madeleine and Ellen, and his two-year-old daughter. His wife had fled. Death Babington (aged 24) and his thirteen co-conspirators were convicted of high treason and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. His offer to Elizabeth of £1,000 for his pardon was rejected, and the execution of the first seven (including Babington, John Ballard, and Chidiock Tichborne) took place on the 20th. The condemned men, kept in the Tower of London, were marched from their cells, strapped to sledges and pulled by horses through the streets of London. On reaching a specially erected scaffold in St. Giles' Field, near Holborn, they were hanged, drawn and quartered. After this, the executioner distributed the parts of their bodies to prominent locations around the city to warn all of the consequences of disloyalty to the monarch. Babington's final letter to his friend and betrayer, Poley ("farewell sweet Robyn...") is one of the more strikingly poignant documents in the case. Popular culture A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley is set at Thackers, the fictional name for the Babington Manor House, actually at Dethick, in Derbyshire. The narrator, Penelope Taberner, witnesses young Anthony Babington's growing involvement with Mary, Queen of Scots, as Penelope finds herself passing between her world of the 1940s and the year 1582. In 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an Afternoon Play by Michael Butt entitled The Babington Plot, directed by Sasha Yevtushenko with Stephen Greif as "The Presenter", done in documentary-style and told from the perspectives of some of the conspirators – some genuine, some government spies that had infiltrated the group - and several people who were in various ways involved in the events. Babington is portrayed as possibly homosexual and having an emotional relationship first with Thomas Salisbury (played by Samuel Barnett) and then Robert Poley (played by Burn Gorman). Actors who played Babington David Collings played Babington in the 1971 BBC miniseries Elizabeth R. Charles Rogers played Babington in the 1978 BBC miniseries adaptation of Alison Uttley's A Traveller in Time. Geoffrey Streatfeild played Babington in the HBO miniseries, Elizabeth I, which starred Helen Mirren. Eddie Redmayne played Babington in the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Nicholas Agnew played Babington in the 2016