Mary I 1553-1558

Question 1

When did Mary arrive in London?

Answer 1

3rd August 1553

Question 2

When Mary arrived in London, how was she met?

Answer 2

Met with a celebration in the streets

Question 3

When was Mary’s proclamation?

Answer 3

16th August 1553

Question 4

What was Mary’s proclamation?

Answer 4

She stated that she intended to make England Catholic again

Question 5

Was Mary Protestant or Catholic?

Answer 5

Catholic

Question 6

When did Mary become queen/when was her coronation?

Answer 6

October 1553

Question 7

When was the 1st Act of Repeal?

Answer 7

October 1553

Question 8

What was the 1st Act of Repeal?

Answer 8

Undid Edward’s reformation

Question 9

Who were Mary’s suitors?

Answer 9

Edward Courtenay - English

Philip II - Spanish

Question 10

What were the benefits and concerns for England of Mary marrying Edward Courtenay?

Answer 10

• More popular with the English people that the foreigner
• His Yorkist roots could resurrect the wars of the Roses by creating a powerful alternative monarch
• His family might dominate court

Question 11

What were the benefits and concerns for England of Mary marrying Philip II?

Answer 11

• Habsburg alliance would forge closer links with the Netherlands, Britain’s main trading partner
• Parliament was concerned that England could become a colony of the powerful Spanish Empire.
• Charles V certainly wanted to use England in his own wars against France
• Country would be dominated by foreigners

Question 12

What religion did Edward Courtenay follow?

Answer 12

Catholicism

- Although with rumoured Protestant tendencies

Question 13

What religion was Philip II?

Answer 13

Staunchly Catholic

Question 14

Who does Mary choose to marry?

Answer 14

Philip II

Question 15

What issues did Mary face due to her gender?

Answer 15

• Unable to control faction
• Unable to lead an army into battle
  A woman was expected to marry but women were to be subservient to their husbands

Question 16

When did Mary inform the Council that it was her intention to marry Philip?

Answer 16

27th October 1553

Question 17

When was the marriage treaty presented to the council?

Answer 17

7th December 1553

Question 18

When was the marriage treaty approved by the council?

Answer 18

January 1554

Question 19

Why did Northumberland’s LJG plot fail?

Answer 19

• Only 2,000 troops compared to Mary’s 20,000/30,000
• Did not act decisively
• Left London
• Needed to rally forces, distribute propaganda and lack of support of the Privy Council-unpopular
• Arrested then executed
• Mary acted without hesitation proclaiming herself queen and had a legitimate claim to the throne in comparison to LJG

Question 20

Who led Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 20

• Thomas Wyatt = Main leader
• Sir peter Carew from Devon
• Sir James Croft from Heredfordshire
• Duke of Suffolk from Leicestershire

Question 21

What was the plan of Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 21

Planned for 4 uprisings on the 18th March 1554 in Herefordshire, Devon, Leicestershire and Kent

Question 22

When did Wyatt’s rebellion plan to launch their uprisings?

Answer 22

18th March 1554

Question 23

Did all 4 uprisings take place?

Answer 23

No, only the uprising in Kent occurred

Question 24

When did Wyatt’s Rebellion in Kent take place?

Answer 24

29th January 1554 - 7th February

Question 25

Why did Wyatt's Rebellion fail?

Answer 25

- Uprisings in the Midlands and West Country failed to go off - Wyatt delayed his advance on London and gave the city time to organise its defences - Too many nobles involved - Mary rallied support (Guildhall speech) - Renard and Paget disocvered the rebellion plans early

Question 26

How many men were in the army of Wyatt's rebellion?

Answer 26

4,000

Question 27

What successes Wyatt's Rebellion have?

Answer 27

- Army of 4,000 men - His proximity to London greatly worried the government there - Captured some of the Queen's ships at Gravesend, and he took Cooling Castle

Question 28

How much of a threat was Wyatt's rebellion?

Answer 28

- Had potential to overthrow Mary however, Wyatt’s delayed response allowed London to gather an army and the crushing of rebellion - Proximity to London worried the govt - Only 1 attack went off

Question 29

Did Wyatt's Rebellion have much support?

Answer 29

- Wyatt had an army of 2,500 in Kent, 4,000 overall - French and Scots were hastily fitting out ships and raising troops to aid the rebels however, no foreign support - French did not seize the opportunity to invade - King of Denmark is ‘joining in’ with the hope that Elizabeth would marry his son or brother - Around 500 had deserted Mary and turned to Wyatt and his cause. - Nobles who lost positions after Edward's death aw rebellion as the only way to reverse a decline in their political fortunes.

Question 30

What happened to the rebels of Wyatt's Rebellion?

Answer 30

- 480 convicted - 90 executed - 600 pardoned - Thomas Wyatt and Duke of Suffolk executed for treason

Question 31

What were the causes of Wyatt's Rebellion?

Answer 31

- Spanish marriage to Philip II - Religious motivation - Decline in cloth industry - Wanted Mary off the throne and to be replaced with Elizabeth

Question 32

When was the 2nd Act of Repeal?

Answer 32

1554

Question 33

What was the 2nd Act of Repeal?

Answer 33

Full Catholicism

Question 34

When were the Heresy Laws?

Answer 34

April 1554

Question 35

What were the Heresy Laws?

Answer 35

- It was treason to not follow Catholicism | - Punishable by death

Question 36

How many Protestants did Mary allow to leave England?

Answer 36

800

Question 37

When did Mary allow Protestants to leave England?

Answer 37

1554

Question 38

When were the first Protestant burnings?

Answer 38

1555

Question 39

How many Protestants were burned?

Answer 39

284

Question 40

When was Cranmer burned?

Answer 40

1556

Question 41

Who was Cranmer?

Answer 41

Former Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 42

When was Pole recalled to Rome?

Answer 42

1557

Question 43

When did Mary die?

Answer 43

1558