[1] Savage arrived in London in early 1586 and met John Ballard in the city in March of that year and volunteered to join the conspiracy that Ballard and Anthony Babington had begun to formulate which aimed to carry out the murder of Queen Elizabeth, the release of Mary, Queen of Scots from prison and then to put Mary on the throne with foreign support.
[1] In 1489 John Babington and Ralph Savage were jointly granted a license to found a chantry at North Wynfield, Derbyshire.
[2] At a meeting of the conspirators at St Giles in the Fields in April, Savage was one of the six who were nominated to carry out assassination of the queen.
[1] Savage was arrested in London along with two other members of the conspiracy, Chidiock Tichbourne and Thomas Tilney, before the assassination could be accomplished.
[1] Just as Babington had, Savage made a speech from the scaffold where he proclaimed that he had been taught as a Catholic in England to regard the murder of the Protestant queen as a 'lawful and meritorious act'.