John Ballard and his constant companion Barnard Maude were spies
seemingly living by the motto `Trust no One`. Ironically, they
appear to have trusted one another and claimed to be soldiers
surveying possible road routes. Under the tutelage of Ayrshire
farmer, Mackenzie Cunninghame, they learnt to be cattle drovers and
travelled Scotland establishing the strength and location of
support for Mary, Queen of Scots. Ballard, a Jesuit Priest,
Catholic missionary and advocate of restoring Mary to the throne of
England also favoured a Spanish invasion and the assassination of
Queen Elizabeth I. He was much involved in the Babington Plot and
was executed for it. He trusted Barnard Maude who was in fact an
English spy for Sir Francis Walsingham, who thus knew of Ballard`s
intrigues, and those of Sir Anthony Babington, which enabled
Walsingham to entrap Mary Queen of Scots for treason. Mackenzie
Cunninghame, the enigmatic farmer from Coylton, unwittingly became
a part of the English spy network.
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