Key Terms

Question 1

recusant

Answer 1

someone who refused to attend the Church - after Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement, recusants began being fined

Question 2

martyr

Answer 2

Someone who dies for their beliefs, often religious Catholics viewed Mary, Queen of Scots as a martyr after her execution

Question 3

intelligencer

Answer 3

a spy - Walsingham’s helpers

Question 4

heir presumptive

Answer 4

MQS - if a direct heir is not produced, they have a claim to the throne

Question 5

proxy war

Answer 5

a war fought indirectly, in another country - the Netherlands

Question 6

privateer

Answer 6

A pirate licensed by a government to attack enemy ships, especially for trade Francis Drake was a privateer who raided Spanish treasure ships

Question 7

heresy

Answer 7

Belief or opinion that goes against official Church doctrine, especially Catholicism: Protestants were seen as heretics by Catholic Spain

Question 8

supremacy

Answer 8

the recognition of the monarch as the head of the church.