Parliament 1588-1903

Question 1

sundry enormities and monopolies and the abuse of them

Answer 1

1597 Robert Wingfield

Question 2

petition against monopolies, holders ‘blood suckers’

Answer 2

1601 – Treasurer Buckhurst

Question 3

Golden speech

Answer 3

30th November 1601

Question 4

Charles V had a debt

Answer 4

36 million

Question 5

Purveyance (the right for Elizabeth to buy certain goods, like horses, for below the market rate)

Answer 5

1593 MP’s voted to give Elizabeth generous taxes - has to appease

Question 6

cost of war

Answer 6

£480000 in 1589
cost £1 million up to that date – costs over 126000 – 1/2 yearly income

Question 7

1588 -funding

Answer 7

borrowed £75 000 from wealthy subjects.
56000 of city of London at 10% p/a

Question 8

1593 funding

Answer 8

have spent 7 million - Cecil claimed 300,000 was needed.

Question 9

Taxes rise

Answer 9

1593 -Raleigh argued that any tax increase show not fall on the poorest, however he was ignored and taxes went up again.

Bacon opposes – nobility must sell gold, Raleigh opposes as causes poverty

Question 10

Crown lands

Answer 10

1600- Elizabeth forced to sell £200 000 of crown lands

Question 11

bill aiming to treat Catholics and Puritans harsher was resisted by Raleigh

Answer 11

1593-

Question 12

Whit gift / Bancroft crackdown-

Answer 12

Recusancy fines over £20 – over 3500, see how less then 1% practicing Catholics

Question 13

George Blackwell, an English Jesuit priest in Rome, was made the archpriest of England

Answer 13

1598 - papists oppose him/ back elizabeth

Question 14

MPs put forward a more catholic bill to end plurality

Answer 14

1601 -Archbishop Whit gift argued it wasn’t part of the prerogative a

Question 15

Wentworth

Answer 15

told Elizabeth her name would live in ‘infamy’ unless she named a successor in 1591. He was interrogated and imprisoned until 1593. Dies 1597