Mary Flashcards
Pole deprived of position of Papal Legate
1557
Crown finances restructured
1554
- Finical problems inherited from Edward and Henry, crown lands had to be sold and value of currency had gone down.
- Tried to make a new currency but never went through due to the harvest problems from 1556 to 1557= wheat and influenza problems
- Mary was successful in introducing new system for finances= Crown lands were revalued and control of finances given to treasury
Start of naval rebuilding programme
1555
- Payments of 6 new ships and rebuilding of other ships such as the Mary Rose which sank in 1545
- Not significant in short term but helped in long term to defeat Spanish Armada
Plans for recoinage
1556
Cardinal Pole arrives in England
1554
Heresy Laws established
1554
- All called heretics if went against the teachings of the church
- All heretics had the chances to repent once apart from people who were in high profile positions such as Cranmer who repented 6 times
Act restoring papal supremacy
1555
Pole appointed Arch-Bishop of Canterbury
1555
Mary becomes queen
1553
Publication of the marriage treaty
1554
Wyatt’s rebellion
January 1554
- Going against the marriage treaty= xenophobia
- Cloth central area= those areas most likely to be Protestant areas
- Little evidence to support Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey involved.
- January= Muddy roads, bad weather and little support
- Wyatt responsible for Kent= close to ports
- Mary gained support by making a speech claiming her love for the people
- 480 people arrested, 100 killed. Courtenay sent to exile and Lady Jane Grey executed
Repeal of Edwardian religious laws
1553
War with France
1557
- Depended on France with grain exports due to bad harvest in 1556 but was drawn into war due to Spanish and France tensions in 1557
- France was tolerating of English exiles (protestants) until Thomas Stafford launched an attack on Scarborough using French weapons and ships= making war unavoidable
- Calais was captured by France and was humiliating for Mary and was exaggerated by Elizabethan properganda
Military Reforms
1558
Cranmer arrested
1553
Pole reunites English and Roman Catholic Churches
1554
Latimer and Ridley burned at the stake
1555
Cranmer burned in Oxford
1556
Pole called to Rome but Mary refuses to let him
1557
Lady Jane Grey executed
1554
Attack on Scarborough
1557
Mary and Pole die
1558
Calais surrenders to France
1558