Character And Aims

Question 1

Aims (3)

Answer 1

Consolidate position
Settle religious issues
Pursue peace with French

Question 2

Elizabeth accession (3+)

Answer 2

Nicholas Heath = Mary’s Lord Chancellor + Archbishop of York announced Mary’s death to Parliament and proclaimed Elizabeth’s right of succession
Showed that the political elite of the nation collectively assented to Elizabeth’s accession. Within a couple of days = 9 of Mary’s councillors rode to Hatfield = assure Elizabeth of their loyalty

Question 3

Privy council (2+)

Answer 3

She dismissed 2/3 (35) of Mary’s Council = only 10 of the former Queen’s council remained
New councillors = blood relations of the Boleyn side, protestant peers and members of her own household

Question 4

Councillors (3)

Answer 4

William Cecil = 1558-1598
Walsingham = 1562-1590
Dudley (Leicester) = 1562-1588

Question 5

50s parliamentary issue what (2)

Answer 5

January-May 1559
Religious Settlement To restore Royal Supremacy over the Church of England

Question 6

50s parliamentary issue deatails (4+)

Answer 6

Moderately protestant religious settlement passed
Initially rejected by Parliament
HoC on the side of the Crown and HoL wanted to retain as much of the Marian settlement as it could
Arrest of 2 Bishops from HoL in order to pass

Question 7

third issue with parliament when + what (2++)

Answer 7

30th September 1566 to 2nd January 1567
MPs wanted to discuss marriage and succession

Question 8

Second and third parliamentary issue details (2)

Answer 8

Petitioned for Elizabeth to marry a named successor
Wentworth demanded freedom of Speech in parliament