Bond of Association

This article is about the 1584 document. For the banking term, see Bond of association.

The Bond of Association was a document created in 1584 by Francis Walsingham and William Cecil after the failure of the Throckmorton Plot in 1583. Its purpose was to deter attempts to assassinate Elizabeth I.[1][2]

  1. ^ Stephen Alford, The Watchers (Penguin, 2013), pp. 136-7.
  2. ^ A. R. Braunmuller, A seventeenth-century letter-book : a facsimile edition of Folger MS. V.a. 321 (University of Delaware, 1983), pp. 197–202.