Plots and revolts at home

Question 1

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
Where was the first plot from?

Answer 1

The Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland

Question 2

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
Why was it presented as a religious revolt what did they think the plan was?

Answer 2

They thought the plan was to march on London to restore Mary QoS to a Catholic Throne

Question 3

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
What motives did these men have against Elizabeth?

Answer 3

Financial and personal motives, having lost power and land to Elizabeth in her early years

Question 4

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
What was their actual plan?

Answer 4

Mary QoS to marry the Duke of Norfolk

Question 5

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
Why did the plan fail?

Answer 5

because the march South failed to gather support from Spain

Question 6

Plot 1: The Northern Earls
What did they do in Durham Cathedral?

Answer 6

They celebrated Catholic mass

Question 7

Plot 2: The Ridolfi Plot
What was the plan?

Answer 7

Mary QoS to marry the Duke of Norfolk

Question 8

Plot 2: The Ridolfi Plot
Why was this more a threat?

Answer 8

There appeared to be direct foreign support from Roberto Ridolfi (Italian Banner)

Question 9

Plot 2: The Ridolfi Plot
How did Walsingham’s Spy network help?

Answer 9

It intervened and the Duke of Norfolk was beheaded

Question 10

Plot 3: The Throckmorton Plot 1583
What was there aim?

Answer 10

To free Mary QoS

Question 11

Plot 3: The Throckmorton Plot 1583
What did Throckmorton confess while being under torture?

Answer 11

That there was a planned northen uprising as the trigger for a French/Spanish invasion

Question 12

Plot 4: The Babington Plot 1586
What was Mary QoS caught for being involved in?

Answer 12

involved in a plot to have Elizabeth killed

Question 13

Plot 4: The Babington Plot 1586
What was the proof that Mary QoS was involved in the plot?

Answer 13

A coded letter sent in a beer barrel

Question 14

Plot 4: The Babington Plot 1586
Why did Elizabeth sack Cecil?

Answer 14

Because he approved the death warrant of Mary QoS

Question 15

Plot 4: The Babington Plot 1586
What triggered the Spanish Armada invasion?

Answer 15

Mary QoS’s death

Question 16

Plot 4: The Babington Plot 1586
How did Francis Walsingham and his spies prevent these plots of achieving their aim? (4 points)

Answer 16

Mathematicians and Musicians were employed as code breakers, networks of spies were employed in nobles houses, custom officials made it very difficult to land in England secretly and torture, interrogations and executions were used to root pity information and send fear through the potential Catholic enemies