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Elizabethan England Revision 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Act of Supremacy:
        This said that the English Church was not ruled by the pope,
        Elizabeth would be called Supreme Governor,
        All clergy and royal officials had to swear an oath of allegiance to her as the head of the Church.
      - The Act of Uniformity:
        Made Church attendance compulsory,
        Bibles and services were to be in English,
        Catholic practises such as pilgrimages were banned,
- - - - Edmund's replacement was John Whitgift, who was a strict Anglican, who ended prophesying. He also immedietly issued the Three Articles, forcing all of the members of the clergy to swear absolute acceptance of bishops, the Prayer Book and the Thirty-Nine Articles of 1563.
        300 ministers were suspended as a result of this.
- - - - This plan was far more dangerous.
      - Involved the Queen of Scots, the Pope, Phillip II of Spain, and the Duke of Norfolk.
      - Plan was for Elizabeth to be assasinated and replaced by Mary, Queen of Scots.
        
        Idea was for around 6000 Spanish troops to land at Harwich in Essex, led by Duke of Alba.
        
        Elizabeth's intelligence network discovered the conspiracy, Ridolfi was abroad when discovered so avoided prosecution.
        Norfolk was arrested and found guilty of treason.
        
        Parliament passed law (directed towards Mary) that declared that anyone making a claim to the throne and knowing of a plan to assassinate the monarch should be removed from the succession.
    - - In 1582, Walsingham heard rumours of a plot.
        He discovered the link between them to be a young English Catholic called Francis Throckmorton.
        
        Throckmorton was arrested and, under torture, confessed to a plot in which France and Spain would invade England, release Mary and make her Queen.
        He was executed.
        
        Following this the Bond of Association was established which meant that anyone associated with the assassination or plot against Elizabeth would not benefit from her death in any way.
    - - This rebellion was an unsuccessful attempt by Catholic nobles to dispose of Queen Elizabeth.
        
        It failed due to:
        The poor planning and leadership,
        Elizabeth acting decisively and with force,
        There was a lack of foreign support for the rebels,
        Elizabeth was a popular ruler.
      - Involved nearly 5000 rebels who illegally heard Mass in Durham Cathedral on the 14th November.
        
        450 of these rebels were executed.
      - By December they had captured Barnard Castle and the Port of Hartlepool.
    - - After the Throckmorton Plot was discovered, Mary was moved to the ruined Tutbury Castle then to a moated Manor house called Chartley Hall in late 1585.
        
        She wasn't allowed any visitors and letters were checked. Her jailer was a strict Puritan.
        The idea was to push Mary into another plot.
        She began a secret correspondence with the French ambassador, Babington.
        By mid 1586 a plot to kill Elizabeth and free Mary had been designed.
        Unknown to Mary, Elizabeth's "spymaster" knew of the plot and the letters.
        On 17th July 1586, Mary wrote a coded letter approving of the plot.
        In October Mary was placed on trial for treason.
        In December 1586, Cecil prepared a death warrant, but Elizabeth refused to sign it.
        Only in February of the following year did Elizabeth sign the warrant.
        On 8th February 1587, Mary was beheaded.
- - - - By 1603 there were few catholic sympathisers and only 2% recusants.
- - - - Vulnerability.
      - Less of a threat.
      - Cloth trade. Economic connection for Elizabeth. Important for Elizabeth as she gained vital customs revenues (collecting taxes).
      - Humiliate Philip II.
    - - Allowed English pirates to attack.
      - "Peace parties" - Privy Council.
      - Use of English ports.
    - - She was a protestant and he was Catholic.
      - He hated Elizabeth due to religion and rejection.
      - Elizabeth rejected Philip II (1559)