Elizabeth

Question 1

When was Elizabeth’s succession announced to Parliament?

Answer 1

17th November 1558

Question 2

Main men with Elizabeth

Answer 2

William Cecil - like a Wolsey or Cromwell

Walsingham - ‘spymaster’

Question 3

Did Elizabeth surround herself with Protestant emigres?

Answer 3

No, she surrounded herself with Protestants who had stayed and conformed

Question 4

Who was made Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 4

Parker

Question 5

Who was Parker the former chaplain of?

Answer 5

Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth’s mother

Question 6

Was Parker dismissive of Catholic doctrine?

Answer 6

Yes but they trusted him

Question 7

When did Elizabeth sign the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis?

Answer 7

April 1559
Gave them control of Calais for 8 yrs if they kept the peace. If not, the French had to pay an indemnity of half a million crowns

Question 8

Despite success in Scotland following the death of Mary of Guise in 1560, how did Elizabeth lose control in Scotland?

Answer 8

She got involved in the french wars of religion and the Huguenot cause lost and she lost Calais and Le Havre in the Treaty of Troyes without the payment of 500,000 crowns

Question 9

Elizabeth’s religious viewpoint:

Answer 9

• wanted to assert her authority over the Church
• supported Bible and service in English
• agreed with small amounts of preaching
• against superstition, icons and decorations of Churches

Question 10

What was Elizabeth in Henrician terms?

Answer 10

An Evangelical

Question 11

What was drawn up to evaluate the best religious settlement?

Answer 11

‘The Device for the Alteration of Religion’

Question 12

What did the Device for the Alteration of Religion recommend?

Answer 12

• Protestants would say it was a papist plot if it wasnt extreme
• laity wanted to retain catholic ritual as it had given structure

Question 13

December 1558 proclamations

Answer 13

• all religious books should be English

- lord’s prayer should be said in English

Question 14

What did Elizabeth refuse to attend at the Opening of Parliament?

Answer 14

The procession of Monks

Question 15

When were English ambassadors to the Venetian recalled?

Answer 15

1st February 1558

Question 16

Who made the first sermon at st.Paul’s cross?

Answer 16

A known Protestant

Question 17

When did Parliament first meet?

Answer 17

January 1559

Question 18

What title did Elizabeth take?

Answer 18

‘Supreme Governor’

Question 19

Why did Parliament say she could be ‘Supreme Governor’?

Answer 19

New Testament said women couldn’t perform spiritual ministry but it said nothing to stop them being an overseer of the Church

Question 20

Elizabeth’s famous quote

Answer 20

She didn’t want ‘to make windows into men’s souls’

Question 21

Common Prayer Book

Answer 21

1559

Question 22

Key points of the Prayer Book

Answer 22

• communion was an act of remembrance and they were body and blood
• IT WAS A COMPROMISE

Question 23

What did she want her settlement to enable?

Answer 23

Inclusivity

Question 24

Recusancy fine

Answer 24

1 shilling for non-attendance on Sunday or holy day

Question 25

1559 Injunctions

Answer 25

• forbade pilgrimages
• forbade monuments
• preaching had to be licensed - needed Masters of Arts degree so many were left using Homilies to fulfil requirement of 15 sermons a year

Question 26

1559 Act of Exchange

Answer 26

Gave Elizabeth the right to take over property from a bishop when a see was empty. Also recollected First Fruits

Question 27

What was Elizabeth’s intention in agreeing the Church Settlement of 1559?

Answer 27

Establishing an Anglican Church

Question 28

Would the CofE be broadly Protestant in doctrine?

Answer 28

Yes but the liturgy wouldn’t exclude Catholics who accepted Royal Supremacy

Question 29

Visitations

Answer 29

1559

Question 30

Vestiarian controversy

Answer 30

1565

Question 31

When were Parker’s advertisements published?

Answer 31

1556

Question 32

When were 110 clergy invited to Lambeth Palace for parade of correct dress?

Answer 32

March 1566

Question 33

How many clergy refused to wear dress at Lambeth Palace?

Answer 33

37

Question 34

When did Mary Queen of Scots flee to England?

Answer 34

1568

Question 35

Why was Mary a threat?

Answer 35

She was Catholic
She was a Tudor
Elizabeth hadn’t named an heir/successor

Question 36

Where was Mary held?

Answer 36

Carlisle Castle

Bolton Castle

Question 37

Notable Catholic supporters

Answer 37

Duke of Norfolk
Earl of Northumberland (re-converted to Rome in 1567)
Earl of Westmoreland

Question 38

Rising of the Northern Earls

Answer 38

Summer 1569

Question 39

When did Elizabeth demand an account of events from the Council of the North?

Answer 39

24th October

Question 40

When was the signal given for the rebels to raise the country?

Answer 40

9th November

Question 41

When was Northumberland captured and handed back to the English?

Answer 41

June 1572

Question 42

When was Elizabeth excommunicated?

Answer 42

1570

Question 43

When was Northumberland killed?

Answer 43

August 1572

Question 44

Northern rising executions

Answer 44

• 8 leaders and Northumberland

- 700 of the rank and file under martial law

Question 45

Change in policy towards Mary Stuart

Answer 45

No visitors and searched regularly

Question 46

Change in policy from 1570

Answer 46

No longer moderation

Question 47

1571 Treason Acts

Answer 47

Treason to deny Elizabeth as rightful Queen. To be Catholic was now deemed to be un-English

Question 48

1570 lecture of Thomas Cartwright

Answer 48

Lectured CofE was like Church of Christ’s apostles - an overt criticism and support for demands to remove all vestiges of Catholicism grew