Mary

Question 1

Issues with Mary’s government

Answer 1

• She had little political instinct
• Robert Rochester had no experience in government
• Relying on Edward

Question 2

How many MPs opposed her religious reversal

Answer 2

80

Question 3

When was the spanish marriage

Answer 3

1554

Question 5

Details of Mary’s marriage treaty

Answer 5

• No foreigners to hold office
• If Mary died, Phillip would have no claim to the throne

Question 6

Evidence of parliament’s discontent towards the marriage

Answer 6

They blocked Phillip’s coronation in 1555

Question 7

How did Mary’s aims of a marriage with Phillip and restoral papal supremacy come into conflict

Answer 7

Pope Paul IV was bitterly anti-Spanish and she was dragged into war against him

Question 8

Opinions of the english to the marriage

Answer 8

England had become a submissive satellite of the habsburg empire

Question 9

treaty broken in 1556 when Phillip attacked Pope Paul IV

Answer 9

Treaty of Vaucelles

Question 10

What year did Mary join war and how many troops sent

Answer 10

1557, 7000

Question 11

Why did she join the war

Answer 11

French had supported a protestant backed invasion

Question 12

When were France faced with certain defeat

Answer 12

1558

Question 13

How was Calais captured

Answer 13

27,000 french troops attacked 2,000 english

Question 14

Religious changes 1553

Answer 14

Act of repeal Edwardian reformation
Mass and trabnsubstantiation revived
Removed supreme head title

Question 15

1554 religious changes

Answer 15

800 protestants fled
Royal injunctions- removed married clergy
Second act of repeal

Question 17

What was issued in 1556 against clerical abuses

Answer 17

The Synod

Question 18

1557 what was reestablished

Answer 18

Small religious houses

Question 19

How many protestants buried a week in November 1558

Answer 19

5

Question 20

Crown’s improvements to finances

Answer 20

-1554 court of exchequer took over augmentations and first fruit and tenths
- New book of rates
- Plans for recoinage

Question 21

Details of Wyatts rebellion

Answer 21

• 1554
• Meant to be 4 regions but only Kent
• 3,000 troops reached Ludgate
• Norfolk’s troops abandoned him
• 90 executed

Question 22

Causes of Wyatt’s rebellion

Answer 22

• Decline in cloth trade
• Xenophobia
• Protestantism, local support
• Gentry with political resentment

Question 23

Expansion of Navy facts

Answer 23

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