Elizabethan England

Question 1

What year did Elizabeth introduce the Religious Settlement?

Answer 1

1559

Question 2

What did Elizabeth make herself in the Church of England?

Answer 2

Governer

Question 3

What book was introduced?

Answer 3

The Book of Common Prayer

Question 4

What was required in all churches?

Answer 4

A Bible in English

Question 5

What happened to those who refused to attend the new church?

Answer 5

They would be fined

Question 6

Why was religion so important to monarchs?

Answer 6

The Church was central to every ordinary persons life

Question 7

What is a Puritan?

Answer 7

A strict Protestant

Question 8

What did Puritans object to?

Answer 8

How Catholic churches looked: stained-glass windows, music, statues, etc

Question 9

How did Puritans believe a church should be run?

Answer 9

By churchgoers, not the Pope or government. They were also against the Head of Church idea.

Question 10

Which religious group was more of a threat to Elizabeth?

Answer 10

The Catholics.

Question 11

What did Catholics argue about Elizabeth?

Answer 11

Her legitimacy, and her changes to the church were against Catholic teachings

Question 12

What did some Catholics do?

Answer 12

Worship the Catholic way secretly in their homes

Question 13

What’s a Rescusant?

Answer 13

A Catholic who openly refused to go to the new church

Question 14

Which Queen was a huge threat to Elizabeth?

Answer 14

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 15

Why was Mary Queen of Scots a threat to Elizabeth?

Answer 15

For Catholics, she was the rightful next heir to the throne. Elizabeth also had no children - there were many plots against her.

Question 16

What would’ve happened if Elizabeth deported Mary back to Scotland?

Answer 16

Mary would’ve faced death

Question 17

What would’ve happened if Elizabeth deported Mary to France?

Answer 17

She could provide the basis for a French/Catholic invasion, deposing Elizabeth

Question 18

Where did 90% of the population live?

Answer 18

In the countryside (due to social division).

Question 19

What was society like?

Answer 19

Patriarchal (male-dominated).

Question 20

When did Elizabeth become queen?

Answer 20

1558.

Question 21

What divided England the time Elizabeth came to the throne?

Answer 21

Religion - half of England were Catholic, whereas the other half was Protestant.

Question 22

Why didn’t many Catholics regard Elizabeth as the legitimate queen?

Answer 22

The Pope had never approved of Anne Boleyn’s (Elizabeth’s mother) and Henry VIII’s marriage

Question 23

What languages could Elizabeth speak?

Answer 23

English, Latin, French, Greek, Italian - she was well-educated.

Question 24

What was ‘government’ made up of?

Answer 24

Advisers and friends from court.

Question 25

What was most like a modern government?

Answer 25

The Privy Council

Question 26

What did the Privy Council do?

Answer 26

Advised Elizabeth, monitored parliament, and security of the country.

Question 27

What was Parliament made up of?

Answer 27

House of Lords (nobles and bishops) and House of Commons (elected by a few wealthy people).

Question 28

What was the plan for the Northern Earls?

Answer 28

To march on London to restore Mary Queen of Scots to a Catholic throne, so that Mary could marry Duke of Norfolk.

Question 29

What was the Northern Earls motives to revolt?

Answer 29

It was presented as a religious revolt, but these men had financial and personal motives, having lost power and land to Elizabeth in her early years.

Question 30

Did the Northern Earls plan fail or succeed?

Answer 30

Fail - the march South failed to gather support, the Earl of Sussex placed an army in their way at Coventry and Spanish support failed to arrive at Hartlepool.

Question 31

What was the aim of the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 31

Marry Mary Queen of Scots to the Duke of Norfolk, but with direct foreign support of Roberto Ridolfi, an Italian banker.

Question 32

What was the aftermath of the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 32

Walsingham’s spy network intervened and the Duke of Norfolk was beheaded.

Question 33

What was the aim of the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 33

To free Mary Queen of Scots

Question 34

What was the aftermath of the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 34

Under torture, Throckmorton confessed of a planned Northern uprising as the trigger for a French/Spanish invasion. Throckmorton was later executed.

Question 35

What happened in the Babington Plot?

Answer 35

Mary Queen of Scots was caught red-handed to be involved in a plot to kill Elizabeth (though possibly set up by Walsingham)

Question 36

What was the proof that Mary Queen of Scots was involved in the Babington Plot?

Answer 36

In a coded letter sent in a beer barrel.

Question 37

What would happen is Mary Queen of Scots was executed?

Answer 37

With Mary Queen of Scots dead, there was no longer a clear Catholic heir alive to inspire further plots.

Question 38

What did the Catholic world think when Mary Queen of Scots got executed?

Answer 38

The Catholic world was appalled and this was a trigger for the Spanish Armada invasion plan.

Question 39

Who helped to prevent any of these plots happen with spywork?

Answer 39

Francis Walsingham

Question 40

Give an example of what Walsingham did in his spywork.

Answer 40

Mathematicians and musicians were employed as codebreakers, networks of spies were employed in nobles’ houses, foreign courts, etc.