END OF REIGN Flashcards
After 1585, what became more frequent?
Celebrations of Elizabeth’s succession in 1558
The term ‘That Greatest Gloriana’ comes from ‘The Faerie Queen’, written by…
Edmund Spencer
How was Robert Devereaux (Essex) connected to Robert Dudley (Leicester) and Walsingham?
Leicester was his step father and Essex was married to Walsingham’s daughter
Which of these statements is NOT a way in which Elizabeth dealt with Essex after his sudden arrival in court after his lack of success in Ireland in 1600?
- Essex was consigned to the house of Lord Keeper Egerton
- Essex was placed under house arrest
- Essex was called before a meeting of the Privy Council to answer charges including his private dealings with the Earl of Tyrone
- Essex was stripped of all his offices including the ‘Mastership of the Horse’
Essex was stripped of all his offices including the ‘Mastership of the Horse’
In 1601 Essex marches into the City of London with…
300 men
Which of these is NOT a reason why the monopolies crisis (1597-98) was a threat to Elizabeth’s control in Parliament:
- It infringed upon the Queen’s prerogative (personal rights as monarch)
- Parliament ignored Cecil’s plea to drop the bill and refer the matter to a special committee
- Parliament had openly adopted the principle that redress of grievances should precede the granting of taxes
- Elizabeth would lose revenue and power as she had the monopoly on salt and wine
Elizabeth would lose revenue and power as she had the monopoly on salt and wine
Following the monopolies crisis, Elizabeth delivered a speech to MPs. This was her…
Golden Speech
Following the poor harvests of 1594 to 1597, there were food riots. Which three types of people made up the 1800 who took part in the London riots?
Apprentices, disbanded soldiers, masterless men
In what year did Peter Wentworth draft a pamphlet entitled ‘A Pithie Exhortation to her Majesty for Establishing a Successor to the Crowne’?
1587
Who wrote the Book of Succession in 1595 under the pseudonym R Doleman?
Father Robert Parsons
Which was a possible action for Elizabeth in her dealing with Ireland?
Ignore the rest of Ireland beyond the Pale
Attempt to colonise areas where English influence was limited
Full scale military conquest
Which of these was NOT possible candidate for successor to Elizabeth I?
Lady Arabella Stuart
Edward Seymour
James VI of Scotland
Philip II of Spain
Philip II of Spain
Which of these is NOT what ‘beyond the Pale’ was taken to mean?
- Outside of ‘civilised’ society
- A fence dividing the English controlled area of Dublin from Gaelic Ireland
- Irish territory belonging to the kings of England
- An area where England had complete control
An area where England had complete control
In what year did the Earl of Sussex, the Lord Deputy, campaign against Shane O’Neill
1561
In 1598, Hugh ‘Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeated the English Army at…
Yellow Ford
