Elizabeth Section 2

Question 1

What is the royal court?

Answer 1

Group of nobles and privy counsellors that surrounded the queen

Question 2

Who travelled with Elizabeth as she toured?

Answer 2

Courtiers

Question 3

What did entertainment at court provide an image of?

Answer 3

Extravagance and wealth

Question 4

What did she use to control the royal court?

Answer 4

A system of patronage

Question 5

How did she award people?

Answer 5

Granted them positions of power

Question 6

How did the system of patronage result in loyalty?

Answer 6

Elizabeth could remove their power if they were bad

Question 7

What was the system of patronage based of?

Answer 7

Personal relationships with the queen

Question 8

Who was the privy council lead by?

Answer 8

The secretary of the state

Question 9

How did she control the privy council?

Answer 9

Appointing councillors with different viewpoints so she could choose between them

Question 10

Who did she employ as secretary of the state?

Answer 10

William Cecil

Question 11

did William Cecil make Elizabeth do?

Answer 11

Execute Mary queen of Scots

Question 12

Who was the rising star of Elizabeth’s court?

Answer 12

Robert devereux

Question 13

What led to Robert devereux’s execution?

Answer 13

Egotistical and rash behaviour

Question 14

What did Robert devereux do in 1598?

Answer 14

Reached for his sword in argument with Elizabeth

Question 15

What did Robert devereux do in 1599?

Answer 15

Led a failed military expedition

Question 16

What did Robert devereux do in 1600?

Answer 16

Abandoned soldiers in Ireland + forced his way into Elizabeth’s bedchamber

Question 17

What did Robert devereux do in 1601?

Answer 17

Plotted an armed rebellion to make James of Scotland king

Question 18

What did the death of William Cecil lead to?

Answer 18

Rivalry in the privy council

Question 19

Who was each county ruled by?

Answer 19

Lord lieutenant

Question 20

What was the title of lord lieutenant?

Answer 20

A form of patronage

Question 21

What did the title of lord lieutenant make you?

Answer 21

One of the most powerful nobles in the county

Question 22

What was the role of the lord lieutenant?

Answer 22

Keep Queen and privy council informed of what was happening in the area

Question 23

How did lord lieutenants deal with rebellion?

Answer 23

Organised a local army to deal with them

Question 24

What were the justices of peace responsible for?

Answer 24

Law and order

Question 25

How many JP’s were there in each county?

Answer 25

40

Question 26

What was the JP a form of?

Answer 26

Patronage

Question 27

What did JP’s do?

Answer 27

Collect taxes, enforce poor law, be judges in court

Question 28

What was a result of JP’s being overpaid?

Answer 28

Corruption and bribery

Question 29

What was the role of Parliament?

Answer 29

MP’s gave there consent for laws to be passed

Question 30

What did parliament pose as?

Answer 30

Serious threat to Elizabeth’s authority

Question 31

What did puritan MP’s push for?

Answer 31

Elizabeth to marry, remove bishops, give MP’s freedom of speech, stop priests wearing vestments

Question 32

How many times did Parliament meet in 45 years?

Answer 32

13 times

Question 33

What did privy councillors do in parliament?

Answer 33

Controlled debate

Question 34

What topics did Elizabeth ban in parliament?

Answer 34

Religion, her marriage,

Question 35

Who did Elizabeth punish harshly in parliament?

Answer 35

Puritan MP’s

Question 36

Who did she imprison in wentworth tower?

Answer 36

Peter wentworth

Question 37

Why did she imprison Peter wentworth?

Answer 37

He demanded the queen marry a Protestant heir

Question 38

Which puritan MP had their hand chopped off?

Answer 38

John Stubbs

Question 39

Why did John Stubbs get his hand chopped off?

Answer 39

He proposed a marriage with Catholic Duke of Anjou

Question 40

How did Elizabeth project herself through propaganda as?

Answer 40

As a powerful and popular monarch

Question 41

What did Elizabeth’s portraits emphasise?

Answer 41

Her power

Question 42

What did Elizabeth’s portraits hide?

Answer 42

Signs of weakness

Question 43

How did Elizabeth make herself known to normal people?

Answer 43

Progresses

Question 44

What is a progress?

Answer 44

Royal tour that took place each summer

Question 45

Who joined Elizabeth on her progresses?

Answer 45

Important nobles

Question 46

What did Elizabeth do?

Answer 46

Show off wealth and splendour

Question 47

How were Elizabeth’s progresses limited?

Answer 47

Only in loyal Protestant areas