Elizabeth I Summarised Notes

ELIZABETH I CONDENSED NOTES
SUMMARY TABLE

Topic Key Points
1. Religion
2. Foreign affairs
Situation 1558
3. Debt
4. Parliament and succession
1. Spain – Religion
2. War with France – Money and Debt
Foreign Situation 1558
3. MQS/Scotland
4. France – Religion and Calais
1. Variety of influences: Marian exiles/internal
perspective/Catholic Bishops in Parliament
Religious Situation 1558 2. Personal preferences
3. MQS
4. France/Spain
1. MQS
2. Papal Bull
Catholic Threat 3. Abroad
4. Immigrant priests
5. Archpriest Controversy
1. John Whitgift
2. Matthew Parker
Archbishops
3. Thirty-Nine/Three Articles
4. Edmund Grindal
1. MQS death
2. Government legislation
Catholic Decline
3. Shortage of priests
4. Ineffective support from European Catholics
1. Marian exiles
2. Parliament
3. Church
Puritanism
4. Literature, Academic Criticism and Pamphlets
5. Separatists
6. Beliefs
1. Howards vs Dudley
2. Dudley vs Cecil
Faction 3. Within Parliament
4. Essex vs Cecil
5. Essex Rebellion
1. Religion
2. MQS
3. Marriage and succession
4. Parliamentary privilege
Issues with Parliament
5. Finance/grants
6. War with Spain
7. Monopolies/purveyance
8. Faction
1. Court
2. Privy Council
Aspects of Government 3. House of Lords
4. House of Commons
5. Local Government
1. MQS
2. Cecil vs Dudley
William Cecil 3. Cecil vs Essex
4. Financing/administrating War with Spain
5. Managed HofC/L/PC
Succession 1. Relations with Parliament
2. MQS