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Elizabeth 1558 - 1603 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Servents, advisers and friends
    - - greatly influence monarch. No real power
- - - - Position, Wealth, Influence gone
        
        arrested. Took 300 men to see queen
        
        thought to be a kidnapping
        
        Executed 1601
- - - - Fault was not theirs (e.g. age, poor by casualty, blind, disabled)
      - Government sympathetic
    - - The Clapper Dudgeon
        
        Cut themselves, wrapped in dirty bandages = given money
      - The counterfeit crank
        
        bit on soap, pretend to be mad for money
  - - - exploration = more silver in circulation = prices rise
    - - Taxes rise
      - Soldiers and sailors out of work
      - Trade reduced
    - - Farming becomes more efficient = less workers needed
      - Common land removed
  - - - Parishes help poor
        
        Cared for in almshouses / poorhouses
- - - - Treason Act (1571) - executed if deny Elizabeth but support Pope
      - 1581 - converting to catholic illegal. Fined £20 to not attend protestant service
      - 1585 - Act against Jesuits and seminary Priests. Becoming catholic priest = treason
      - Large catholic gatherings banned: prevents uprising
  - - - 1572 - Puritan printing presses destroyed
      - MPs banned discussing religion in parliament
- - - - Got Mary's servants to hide coded letters in beer barrels to be taken to her room
        
        Mary's servants worked for Elizabeth's spy master, so the letters went straight to Elizabeth
        
        Mary trialed for treason and executed in 1587
- - - - English support piracy of Spanish ships. Francis Drake captures £400,000 worth of treasure that Spain couldn't afford to lose. Invading England would stop piracy, remove Eliza, make England catholic ally
    - - 1562-98 catholic & protestant civil war in France. Threat of France removed = less risky to attack England
    - - Elizabeth rejected Phillip (1559). Philip married Mary (a catholic)
    - - Philip = Catholic. Eliza = protestant. Wanted to return England to catholicism
    - - Philip involved in plots against Eliza. Eliza persecutes English Catholics with harsher laws. Increased hostility
  - - - Strength: Spain receives lots of funding £3 million
      - Weakness: Duke of Medina Sidonia (commander) inexperienced. Didn't want to lead.
      - Armada set off, Spotted by fisherman and beacons are lit for English navy. Wait for Parma to arrive at Calais.England sends hellbournes/fireships to attack (Battle of Gravelines). WInds push 50 Spanish ships into rocks ('Protestant winds'). Spanish sail past Scotland and Ireland where worst storm in history damages many ships
    - - Strength: Fresh food supplied daily
      - Weakness: Did not receive as much funding £300,000
      - Small, fast moving ships chased the Spanish. Sir Francis Drake and the fireship destroyed many ships. Early warning using fire beacons