58. Defence Of The Royal Prerogative

Question 1

Why was the issue of marriage and succession less pressing in the later years of her reign?

Answer 1

James VI was unofficially accepted as her heir

Question 2

What became a major source of friction?

Answer 2

Purveyance and monopolies

Question 3

Why did elizabeth need to call Parliament?

Answer 3

Due to rising costs of war with Spain and Ireland

Question 4

Who wrote a pamphlet about the succession?

Answer 4

Peter Wentworth MP

Question 5

What pamphlet did Peter Wentworth MP write?

Answer 5

A pithy exhortation to her majesty for establishing her successor in the crown

Question 6

When did Peter Wentworth mp write his pamphlet?

Answer 6

Before the 1593 Parliament met

Question 7

Why was Peter Wentworth sent to the tower?

Answer 7

He discussed parliamentary business outside the Palace of Westminster in 1593

Question 8

When did Peter Wentworth die?

Answer 8

1597

Question 9

What did Burghley say when the 1593 Parliament asked do the remedy of grievances over purveyance?

Answer 9

Said it was infringing on royal prerogative so couldn’t be debated

Question 10

What did elizabeth respond to the discussions on purveyance ?

Answer 10

Agreed to investigate the problem

Question 11

What was the focus on in 1597?

Answer 11

Monopolies

Question 12

Who raised an issue on monopolies?

Answer 12

Robert Wingfield, a Northamptonshire MP

Question 13

What was elizabeth’s response to the issue about monopolies?

Answer 13

Decided to yield gracefully and stop monopolies

Question 14

How much action on monopolies was taken before 1601?

Answer 14

None

Question 15

What was the golden speech?

Answer 15

She restate her god given right to rule but confirmed that she reign ‘with your loves’

Question 16

Why did Parliament give more money?

Answer 16

Due to the first flush of victory of the Spanish Armada in July 1588

Question 17

What did Sir Walter mildmay say in the 1589 Parliament?

Answer 17

Said an unprecedented two subsidies and four tenths and fifteenths should be levied

Question 18

What did Parliament respond to sir Walter mildmays proposition?

Answer 18

Said it shouldn’t become the norm and should be collected over four years

Question 19

What did Parliament agree in the 1593 Parliament?

Answer 19

To double subsidy and four tenths and fifteenths

Question 20

Why did Burghley suggest a conference between the houses?

Answer 20

To explain that the grant of 1589 brought in £480,000 but the Queen had spent over a million pounds

Question 21

What did Francis Bacon suggest about the 1593 grant?

Answer 21

The grant be spread over 6 years

Question 22

Who argued against Bacon?

Answer 22

Sir Walter Raleigh and other privy councillors

Question 23

What did the House agree to in the 1593 parliament?

Answer 23

Three subsidies and six tenths and fifteenths, two thirds to be paid over 1 year and the rest to be paid over 2 years

Question 24

What was a consequence of bacons’ opposition?

Answer 24

Forbidden to come to court

Question 25

How long did the discussion at the 1593 parliament take?

Answer 25

24 days

Question 26

Why did the queen need money in the 1597 parliament?

Answer 26

Needed to maintain her armies and navy

Question 27

What was there a threat of in England in 1597?

Answer 27

Famine

Question 28

What grant was given in 1597?

Answer 28

One similar to the grant of 1593

Question 29

What was the 1597 parliament troublesome over?

Answer 29

Monopolies

Question 30

What was the 1601 parliament troublesome over?

Answer 30

Monopolies

Question 31

What was the deficit in 1601?

Answer 31

140,000

Question 32

How much of a grant did Cecil ask for?

Answer 32

300,000 pounds

Question 33

What was agreed in the 1601 parliament?

Answer 33

Four subsidies

Question 34

Who tried to reduce the burden on the poorest tax payers?

Answer 34

Bacon and Raleigh

Question 35

When was there criticism about harsh treatment of puritans?

Answer 35

1589

Question 36

What did whitgift do in response to the criticism of treatment of puritans?

Answer 36

Continued his campaign against radicals

Question 37

When were measures put forward aimed at catholic and Puritan dissenters?

Answer 37

1593

Question 38

What were the measures in 1593 against catholics ?

Answer 38

Catholics had to remain within 5 miles of their homes to ensure they didn’t travel to join the forces of Catholicism

Question 39

Why did attempts to enforce harsher laws on puritans come to nothing?

Answer 39

Due to resistance led by Raleigh

Question 40

What was the only law passed against puritans?

Answer 40

Attendance at unlawful assemblies and conventicles could be punished by imprisonment

Question 41

What were conventicles?

Answer 41

Places where puritans who could not accept elizabeth’s church worshipped

Question 42

When was a bill concerning priests proposed?

Answer 42

1601

Question 43

What was the bill in 1601?

Answer 43

A bill to end priests holding benefices in plurality

Question 44

What did it mean if priests were holding benefices in plurality?

Answer 44

Boeing responsible for more than one area so were absent from each for some of the time

Question 45

What did whitgift claim about the 1601 bill?

Answer 45

It contravened the royal prerogative and would affect poor scholars who needed to hold multiple positions to finance their studies

Question 46

When was social legislation passed?

Answer 46

1597 and 1601