elizabeth key points

Question 1

Benefits of her trust in councillors

Answer 1

helped ensure political stability sadly lacking reigns brother and sister

Question 2

Evidence of puritan choir

Answer 2

Strickland’s 1571 Bill
Wentworth’s 1576 attacks on clerical abuses
Turner 1584 Bill for a Presbyterian structure
Turner’s 1587 ‘Bill and Book’ (Cope’s Bill)

Question 3

event which shows liz control over public private partnerships

Answer 3

liz greed prodigious - approved Raleighs plan looting Spanish treasure ships returning from new world - denied him sig financial support thus despite minimal investment took half loot - 70 million todays money - Raleigh only took 2000 profit

Question 4

1598 poor law

Answer 4

drew together experience both local + national gov coherent framework take place - distinguished deserving + undeserving poor undeserving punished deserving assisted
poor rates levied on rate payers - substantial householders give money parish

Question 5

article 17 of 39 articles

Answer 5

1563

emphasised importance predestination - linking cofe with calvins doctrines

Question 6

How did liz solve inherited external problem F aggression

Answer 6

( FI occupation isle wight 1545)
antagonise f aiding Scottish lords treaty Berwick 1560
intervening F wars religion side pro prince Conde 1562
relations began improve - Anglo franco opposition Spanish rule Netherlands
by 1571 aforementioned prob vanished succ negotiation f culminate treaty Blois 1572
F renounced support Mary claim throne - solved internal prob domestic instability - mary lacked military + financial support ally - liz solved most sig external prob conducting foreign policy mutal interest english and french- opposition spanish rule in net

Question 7

Established authority 1571

Answer 7

France - yes
MQS - No
Puritans- no
-MacCullochs revisionist interpretation religious settlement - liz failed solve internal prob domestic instability by provoking resistance

Question 8

Liz finance

Answer 8

refusal maary - economically capable- compare mary
preparations mary resote coinage implemented 1561 - solve bitter internal prob inflation
decision not execute mary - retain prosperous commercial relations Antwerp - English wool exports traded. Holland under spanish rule- refusing directly antagonise philip liz allowing e trade flourish thus economy