INCASS-Elizabeth and Parliament Flashcards
19th century historians such as J.Lingard believed that Elizabeth continues the process of using Parliament to do what?
to rubber stamp constitutional and religious changes which were essentially executive decisions
What did early 20th century historians such as Pollard and Neale forward in regards to Parliament?
that under the Tudors Parliament gradually evolved until it reached maturity under the reign of Elizabeth where resistance lay in the Puritan element.
Which historians forwarded the idea that under the Tudors Parliament gradually evolved until it reached maturity under the reign of Elizabeth where resistance lay in the Puritan element.
Pollard and Neale
early 20th century historians such as Pollard and Neale belive that Parliament was willing to challenge the government and the decision of the Privy Council; which element did they believe charged the resistence?
the “puritan choir”
What did early 20th century historians such as Pollard and Neale say was sustained and substantial in regards to resistance?
the puritan choir
early 20th century historians such as Pollard and Neale believed that the Puritans maintained a consistent opposition campaign to Elizabeth and her government and forced what/?
a radical settlement in 1559 and further religious reform in the 80’s
What did 19th century historians such as J.Lingard forward about the presence of Parliament under the Tudors?
that it played little part in the centralisation of government and administration under Henry VIII
Little importance under Somerset and Northumberland and Mary
Elizabeth used it as a rubber stamp
Who did early 20th century historian Neale believe lead the Puritan Choir in Parliament?
Wentworth
What happened to Wentworth who was believed to have led the Puritan Choir in Parliament?
HE was so outspoken in his criticism that he was imprisoned in the Tower and died in 1597
Which interpretation became strongly entrenched as the orthodox view on the subject?
early 20th century historians such as Pollard and Neale that Parliament evolved until it reached maturity under the reign of Elizabeth where resistance lay in the Puritan element.
What was the new argument forwarded by Elton and Graves in the later part of the 20th century?
That too much had been read into the existence of the Puritan Choir; and that it was actually the Queens executive servants who used the legislature to get round her obstinacy.
Who criticised early 20th century historians Pollard and Neale for trying to explain 18th century upheavals through Elizabeth’s reign?
Elton and Graves
What has Woodward said about the conflict between Parliament and the Crown?
that often we look to find a conflict when actually the monarch acted in and through the greater council, his Parliament
Who forwarded the view that the process did not go beyond the normal pattern of evolution which one would expect over a 40 year period?
Graves and Elton, later 20th century historians
what has happened to The Neale thesis that the Elizabethan House of Commons was moving into incident (developing) opposition to the crown?
it no longer holds credibility after historians such as Graves and Elton have disproven this theory
While Parliament may not have developed under Elizabeth into an oppositional institution what was it quite capable of doing?
of showing opposition on specific issues
How did Neale summarise Parliament at the beginning of the 16th century?
as a legislative and taxing body, with its meetings intermittent
Neale summarised the function of Parliament at the beginning of the 16th century as a legislative and taxing body, with its meeting intermittent; however how does he describe Parliament by the end of Elizabeths reign?
as a political force with which the Crown and government had to reckon
Neale believed that the development of an alleged Puritan Choir created a group within Parliament with a distinctive alliterative programme. However who later in the 20th century argued that this was not so and rather underpinned the 1530’s as the pinnacle of Parliamentary changes?
Elton
Where did Elton underpin the pinnacle of Parliamentary development?
1530’s
Why does Elton suggest that in the reign of Elizabeth that the political debates in Parliament and Commons never achieved anything without monarchal consent?
as the monarch was entirely free to ignore them and usually did so
During the reign of Henry VIII, the emphasis of Parliament had been in its involvement in all stages of constitutional change which gradually led to the emergence of what?
supremacy of statute law over all other forms
