Year Government Finances Foreign Policy Other
1553 Mary coronation October Debt £185,000 Mary acclaimed Queen
Parliament met October in London August
Mary dissolved Lady Jane Grey
Parliament imprisoned in tower
Parliament refuse to Mary relinquishes title
repeal Act of Supremacy of supreme head
Bishop Gardiner freed
from imprisonment
1554 Marriage approved by Court of Exchequer took Mary married Lady Jane Grey
Parliament over Court of First Fruits Philip, heir to executed
and Tenths and spanish throne
Augmentations
1555 Parliament met January Survey on crown lands, Death bishop Gardiner
reassessed and returned for Paul IV become Pope,
harvesting anti-spanish
1556 Philip became King of
Spain
1557 Crown lands rents entry Declared war on Pope declares Pole a
fines increased France, June heretic
1558 Book of Rates introduced 2,000 English Mary died November
Debt £300,000 troops to 27,000 Cardinal Pole dies
Customs duties increased French
substantially from £29,000 Loss of Calais
to £83,000.
Appointed 50 councillors Treaty of Cateau-
during her reign Cambresis of April
Parliament called 5 1559 between Spain
times and France
Year Rebellion Control and Power Society Religion
1553 Planning for the rebellion Mary was First Act of Repeal since 154
begun announced All clergy who had married
80 MPs voted against the legitimate. could be deprived of their
repeal of Edwardian religious Cranmer arrested livings. Legal status of the
law September church was upheld.
Some Protestant clergy,
deprived of their livings, som
1553 Mary coronation October Debt £185,000 Mary acclaimed Queen
Parliament met October in London August
Mary dissolved Lady Jane Grey
Parliament imprisoned in tower
Parliament refuse to Mary relinquishes title
repeal Act of Supremacy of supreme head
Bishop Gardiner freed
from imprisonment
1554 Marriage approved by Court of Exchequer took Mary married Lady Jane Grey
Parliament over Court of First Fruits Philip, heir to executed
and Tenths and spanish throne
Augmentations
1555 Parliament met January Survey on crown lands, Death bishop Gardiner
reassessed and returned for Paul IV become Pope,
harvesting anti-spanish
1556 Philip became King of
Spain
1557 Crown lands rents entry Declared war on Pope declares Pole a
fines increased France, June heretic
1558 Book of Rates introduced 2,000 English Mary died November
Debt £300,000 troops to 27,000 Cardinal Pole dies
Customs duties increased French
substantially from £29,000 Loss of Calais
to £83,000.
Appointed 50 councillors Treaty of Cateau-
during her reign Cambresis of April
Parliament called 5 1559 between Spain
times and France
Year Rebellion Control and Power Society Religion
1553 Planning for the rebellion Mary was First Act of Repeal since 154
begun announced All clergy who had married
80 MPs voted against the legitimate. could be deprived of their
repeal of Edwardian religious Cranmer arrested livings. Legal status of the
law September church was upheld.
Some Protestant clergy,
deprived of their livings, som
