1.1 Situation At The Start Of Her Reign

Question 1

Was there a police force or perminant army?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

List the social hisearchy of Elizabethan England:

Answer 2

Nobility
Gentry
Yeomen(held a small amount of land)

• tenant farmers: rented land
• landlss/labouring poor
• homeless/vagabonds

Question 3

What was the social hierarchy of towns?

Answer 3

Merchants

• professionals
• business owners(highly skilled craftsman)
• craftsmen/people wjo learned a skill or trade
• unskilled workers/unemployed

Question 4

What are courtiers?

Answer 4

Memebers of nobility-spend time with Elizabeth

Question 5

What was the role of the court?

Answer 5

• advise and entertain the monarch

- little power-mainky influence over the monarch

Question 6

Who were the privy council made out of?

Answer 6

Leading courtiers

Question 7

What was the role of the provy council?

Answer 7

• debate issues/advise the monarch
• make sure Monarch’s final decisions were carried out
• oversaw law and order+security of England
• monitored justices of Peace
• monitored proceedings in Parliament

Question 8

What was the role of parliament?

Answer 8

• grant extraordinary taxation

- pass laws(acts of Parliament)

Question 9

What was the role of Justices of peace?

Answer 9

• heard court cases for sirious crimes

- make sure all social and economic policies were carried out

Question 10

What are proclamations?

Answer 10

When the Queen issues direct orders

Question 11

Why was Parliament so important?

Answer 11

• not possible to govern effectively without them
• rasing extraordinary taxation
• enforce important policies

Question 12

What is royal prerogative?

Answer 12

Where the monarch can only vote/decide on something

Question 13

Why was Elizabeth being a women a problem?

Answer 13

Christian religion taught they should be under the authority of men

They were expected to lead troops into battle

• if she married she would he silenced because her husband would be seen as the figure head
• no children-no stability for future

Question 14

What were the effects of Mary’s reign?

Answer 14

Englands finances were poor and so were the people

-england to a ctholic country

Question 15

How could Elizabeth raise money?

Answer 15

• rents and income from their own land(crown lands)
• taxes from trade(customs duties)
• additional taxes(subsides) that parliament had to agree to.

Question 16

Why did Elizabeth’s goverment lack money

Answer 16

Wars forced Mary to sell Crown lands

-300,000 in dept

(In come 250,000 a year)

Question 17

What was the French threat?

Answer 17

Auld alliance(France-Scotland)

• Mary Queen of Scots had a strong claim to the throne(English Catholics agree as they do not accept Henry VIII divorce and break from Rome)
• mary had declared herself legitamate to the throne when Mary died

Question 18

Why did Elizabeth fear France and Spain?

Answer 18

Both catholic countries, no longer at war-strong possibility they would unite against Protestant England