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William Cecil

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Secretary of State 
Elizabeth’s chief minister 
All correspondence passed through him 
Loyal and could manage the queen 
Moderate and cautious
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Robert Dudley

Earl of Leicester

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Elizabeth’s favourite 
Member of mobility 
Responsible for queens safety 
Committed Puritan 
Radical
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Sir Francis walsingham

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Member of gentry and MP
Keen Puritan
In charge of Elizabeth’s secret services controlling spies

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How many members in Elizabeth’s council

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19

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Suitors for Elizabeth

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Robert Dudley
King Philip of Spain
Francis duke of alencon

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Why was Robert Dudley a suitor for Elizabeth

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Queens favourite
Close friends since childhood
Wife died in 1560
Too sacándolos to marry

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Kind Phillip of Spain

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Married Elizabeth’s sister
Spain was most powerful country
Eliz rejected him because he was catholic

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Frantic duke of alencon

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Younger brother to king of France

After French Protestants masacre there were strong anti-French feelings

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Earl of Essex

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Robert Dudley stepson
Given mission to defeat rebellion in Ireland
Instead made a truce he was exuctuted

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Francis Drake

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First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe in 1577-80
Returned with £200million and was Knight by the queen
Helped in the Spanish Armada

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Raleigh

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Granted a license to set up a colony in America to provide wine and oil
Claimed Virginia but failed 3 times to colonise it

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Hawkins

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Started the slave trade and designed trips that helped defeat Spanish Armada

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Catholic earls of Northumberland

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Unhappy with religious settlements and planned to free Mary and marry her to duke of Norfolk

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Lord Darnley

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Married to Mary queen of Scots

Murdered in suspicious circumstances

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Duke of Norfolk

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Implicated in catholic plots against eliz and to marry Mary q of Scots

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Rodolfi

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Italian banker
Plotted to over throw queen
Had the pope backing him

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Anthony babbington

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Planned to rescue Mary

Used secret letters provided Walshingham with evidence against Mary

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Medina sidonia

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Appointed to command Aranda and had little experience

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Whitgift

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New Archbishop of Canterbury
Made all Puritan clergy accept regulations to Church of England
He made puritans separate and make a new church but they weren’t that big a threat

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