Government & Parliament

Question 0

How large was the privy council & how often did it meet

Answer 0

• Maximum of 20

- 3 times a week, then daily after 1590

Question 1

What was the role of the Privy Council

Answer 1

Chief administrative body of the realm

Question 2

What is a cost & benefit of a small inner rind of 5

Answer 2

• more likely to produce agreed and coherent policy

- increase the threat of factionalism

Question 3

What were Cecil’s titles and when were they given to him

Answer 3

• Secretary of State 1558

- Lord Burghley 1571

Question 4

What was LEE’s judgement about Cecil

Answer 4

“Provided the most effective and overall support for the queen”

Question 5

Who had the role of Lord Chancellor

Answer 5

Christopher Hatton

Question 6

When did Robert Dudley:

• Gain a seat into Privy council
• Receive title Earl of Leicester

Answer 6

• 1562

- 1564

Question 7

What is LEE’s judgement about Dudley

Answer 7

“Core of faction, based on his own interests”

Question 8

What role did Walsingham take in 1573

Answer 8

Secretary of State

Question 9

What is GUYs judgement of the council

Answer 9

• policies were simple but effective

- top of the agenda was national defence and fortifications

Question 10

What is the traditional view about who controlled who

Answer 10

Queen dominated often over an undivided council

Question 11

What is HAIGHs interpretation of the trad. View of who controlled who

Answer 11

• attempted to control councillor sand magnates by drawing them into a ‘web of personal, even emotional, relationship with her’

Question 12

What is CREIGHTONs view of council

Answer 12

‘she represented England as NO other ruler did’

Question 13

Give 4 examples of Eliz controlling herinisters

Answer 13

• Royal veto
• DIDNT allow Settlement to become too extrem
• DIDNT seal MQS death warrant, when DAVISON delivered it, he was put in tower
• Refused to marry (eventually)

Question 14

What is the Revisionist view of who controlled who

Answer 14

• Challenges not just view that Eliz was in control BUT idea that council was disunited
• ‘weak’ (female) Queen was dominated by (male) councillors

Question 15

Who said “at all times there were two governments”

Answer 15

COLLINSON

Question 16

Who advocates that Eliz. Was managed rather than being the manager

Answer 16

GUY

Question 18

Give 4 examples of ministers controlling Eliz.

Answer 18

• Cecil opted to support Knox and Scottish Protestants in 1560
• Walsingham believe to have trapped MQS in Babington Plot 1586
• United against her regarding the Anjou marriage
• Councillors used patronage to appoint MPs with similar views

Question 19

What were the functions of Parliament?

Answer 19

• Pass legislation

- Raise taxes

Question 20

Outside of Parliament how could Elizabeth get what she wanted? How many did she make?

Answer 20

Injunctions

382

Question 21

Who had the power to summon Parliament

Answer 21

Elizabeth alone

Question 22

How many times did parliament sit in session

Answer 22

13

Question 23

When was Peter Srickland’s Bill and what was it/ how was it handled

Answer 23

• 1571
• Raised grievances against the BCP of 1559
• Parliament NOT Eliz. put him in the Tower

Question 24

What four things did Elizabeth veto during her reigh

Answer 24

• Marriage
• Succession
• Religion
• Foreign Policy

Question 25

What is the ‘whig’ interpretation and who are some historians who advocated it?

Answer 25

• Look back on history with a liberal view, often seen as TRADITIONAL
• Pollard & Neale

Question 26

Name 2 evidence that support the ‘whig’ interpretation

Answer 26

• Peter Wentwoth’s Bill on Freedom of Speech 1576

- NEALE’s ‘Puritan Choir’ (‘reforming MPs held back by conservative Queen

Question 27

Name some historians and what they say regarding the REVISIONIST interpretation of Parliament

Answer 27

• HAIGH- ‘For Eliz. MPs were ‘little boys’
• ELTON- ‘Overestimation of commons, & underestimation of Lords’
• GREAVES- Important but irregular part of Elizabethan gov.