elizabethan government

Question 1

What was the role of the Privy Council?

Answer 1

• Debate current issues, advise monarch
• Oversee law & order, and the local government
• Monitor JPs
• Monitor Parliament

Question 2

What was the Court made up of?

Answer 2

• Mostly members of the nobility

- The monarch’s key servants, advisers and friends

Question 3

What was the role of Parliament?

Answer 3

• Grant extraordinary taxation
• Pass laws (Acts of Parliament)
• Offer advice to the monarch

Question 4

What was the Privy Council made up of?

Answer 4

• Approximately 19 members
• Leading courtiers, advisers, nobles.
• Senior government officials(Sir William Cecil)

Question 5

What could the Monarch do?

Answer 5

• make government policy/important decisions
• declare war & make peace
• call & dismiss parliament (agree/disagree)
• grant titles, lands, money & jobs

Question 6

What was the role of the Court?

Answer 6

• Entertain & advise the Monarch
• Public display of wealth & power
• Had influence with Monarch rather than power

(Attending court required the Monarch’s permission)

Question 7

What was the Court?

Answer 7

A body of people who lived in, or near the same palace or house as the monarch

Question 8

How many times a week did the Privy Council meet?

Answer 8

At least 3 per week, & the meetings were often attended by the Monarch

Question 9

What is a JP (Justices of Peace)?

Answer 9

• large landowners who kept law and order

- unpaid, they report to the Privy Council

Question 10

How was the parliament controlled?

Answer 10

• could only be called & dismissed by the monarch
• elections were held before each new parliament, but not many could vote
• elizabeth called parliament 10 times during her reign

Question 11

What was the Royal Perogative?

Answer 11

Areas only the monarch had the right to decide upon

foreign policy, marriage, the succession

Question 12

Who were the Lords Lieutenants?

Answer 12

• Members of the nobility (often Privy Council)
• Chosen by the monarch
• each county had one

Question 13

What was the role of a Lords Lieutenant?

Answer 13

-Maintain Monarch’s power and england’s defences
-raised & trained local militia
-oversee county defenses
oversee enforcement of policies
-part of local government

Question 14

What did the role of a JP include?

Answer 14

• ensure all social & economic policies were carried out
• hears county court case every 3 months for serious crimes
• part of the local government

(position of status, so very popular job)

Question 15

Who was the Secretary of State?

Answer 15

• Elizabeth’s most important Privy Councillor
• Closest government member
• Advises Queen

(Sir William Cecil until 1573, then became Lord Burghley)
(Sir Francis Walsingham preceded him)