Mary I (specific facts) Flashcards

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Marriage of Mary & Philip

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  • 1554
  • Phillip had no royal power in England
  • Increased xenophobia
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Election of Pope Paul IV

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  • 1555
  • Fiercely anti-Spanish
  • Wanted to fight Hapsburgs for control of Naples
  • Allied with France
  • Mary brought into conflict against Pope
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3
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French landing in Scarborough

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  • 1557
  • Led to England declaring war on France
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4
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England declare war on France

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1557

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4
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English defeat in France

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  • 1558
  • 2000 English defeated by 27,000 French troops
  • Calais lost
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5
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Evidence of existence of catholicism

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  • In 1553
  • Alters rebuilt in Melton Mowbray
  • Mass held in Bishopsgate
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First statute of repeal

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  • 1553
  • Undid Edwardian reformation
  • Revived mass and belief in transubstantiation
  • 80 MP’s rejected
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7
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Cramner arrested

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1553

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8
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Cardinal Pole

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  • 1554
  • Became Archbishop of Canterbury and Papal Legate
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Heresy Laws

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  • 1554
  • Defined many as heretics
  • Promised monastic lands would not be restored to Church ownership
  • To root out heretics
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Second Act of Repeal

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  • 1554
  • Undid all anti-papal legislation since 1529
  • Therefore undid Henrician reformation
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Third Act of Repeal

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  • 1555
  • Mary gives up title of Supreme Head of Church of England
  • Revokes royal supremacy
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12
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Cramner burned

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1556

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13
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Cardinal Pole recalled to Rome

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  • 1557
  • Mary refused to let him go
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14
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Wyatt’s rebellion motives

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  • Xenophobia to Philip
  • Decline of cloth industry in Kent
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14
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Wyatt’s rebellion

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  • 1554
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt raised 2500 armed men
  • Reached Ludgate, 1/2 a km from Queen
  • Intended to replace Mary with Elizabeth
  • 90 rebels and Wyatt executed
15
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Insignificance of Wyatt’s rebellion

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  • Little support from common people - political conspiracy among elites
16
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Harvests during Mary’s reign

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  • 1556 harvest worst of sixteenth century
  • 6 harvests in 1550s deemed bad
17
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Disease during Mary’s reign

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Disease epidemic killed 5-25% of population

18
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JPs under Mary I

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Appointed as overseers of the poor in Yorkshire

19
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MPs (Mary)

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  • Appointed 50 during her reign
  • Inefficient and faction ridden government
20
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Example of Mary’s bad relation with parliament

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  • 1554 - Bill including Phillip in a new law on treason was rejected
  • 1555 - Bill to allow the seizure of property of Protestant exiles was rejected
21
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Loss of Calais

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  • 1558
  • Territorially - Last English territory on French mainland
  • Militarily - Irrelevant and expensive to maintain
22
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How many Protestants did Mary burn

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  • 289 burnt for heresy
  • 60 in London
  • Including religious figures: Cramner, Ridley and Hooper who acted as martrys
23
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How much debt did Mary leave

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£300,000

24
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What happened to wages during Mary’s reign

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Declined due to rising prices and poor harvest