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E.I. MINISTERS - Coggle Diagram
E.I. MINISTERS
ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX
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flirted with disobedience - attacked Lisbon to reinstate Don Antonio in 1589 rather than destroy the remaining Armada fleet as instructed
sought peace with Earl of Tyrone rather than crushing him - so Elizabeth deprived him of office, placed him under house arrest
rivalry with Robert Cecil ended in 1601 when Essex tried to rebel and seize the Tower and City of London to oust Cecil
WILLIAM CECIL, LORD BURGHLEY
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ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEIESTER
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very close to Elizabeth personally - envied by other courtiers for this, and hated for his arrogance
headstrong, advocated foreign action - Spanish Netherlands named himself Governor General without E.I. approval
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JOHN WHITGIFT
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Hated Puritans - prime force in measures e.g. Act Against Seditious Sects, Brownist movement, arrested Prebysterian Thomas Cartwright in 1576
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