Key terms

Question 1

Vagabondage / vagrant

Answer 1

the homeless / poor

Question 2

Inflation

Answer 2

increase in prices e.g food prices

Question 3

Papal / Papacy

Answer 3

the Pope

Question 4

Gentry

Answer 4

middle class

Question 5

Commercial

Answer 5

trade

Question 6

Justice of peace

Answer 6

group of people who keep law and order (like police)

Question 7

Privy council

Answer 7

group of 19 noble men who were Elizabeth’s advisors e.g William Cecil

Question 8

Patronage

Answer 8

a reward for people who are loyal

Question 9

Royal court

Answer 9

a large community who helped Elizabeth - they were known as courtiers

e.g maids or government officials

Question 10

Preservation of the Queens safety

Bond of Association

Answer 10

a new act placed after the Throckmorton plot in order to be able to capture and execute MQS in the future

Question 11

Recusant

Answer 11

catholics who were unwilling to attend church services due to the religious settlement (15890)

Question 12

Treaty of Joinville

date and explanation

Answer 12

1584 - treaty with French Catholics to remove protestantism from Europe

Question 13

Popes excommunication

date and explanation

Answer 13

1570 - banishing Elizabeth from church and making her a target to overthrow

Question 14

Treaty of Nonsuch

date and explanation

Answer 14

1585 - declared war with Spain

Question 15

Increase in population

Answer 15

2.5 million -> 4 million

Question 16

Vagabonds act

Answer 16

1572 - poor or homeless were whipped / mutilated on 1st offence, sent to “house of correction” on 2nd offence

Question 17

Act for Relief of the poor

Answer 17

towns were required to find work for able bodied poor but most were sent to “house of correction”

Question 18

House of correction

Answer 18

a prison, mainly for poor