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ELIZABETH TROUBLES AT HOME - Coggle Diagram
ELIZABETH TROUBLES AT HOME
RELIGIOUS SETTLEMENT
Catholic Beliefs
Pope is head of the church
Mary ( Elizabeth's sister was church )
Services happen in Latin
Protestants
Monarch is the head of church
Bible and services in English
People can have relationship with God. Priests not special
Churches should be plain
Priests can marry if they decide
Elizabeth needed to come to a compromise between the Catholic and Protestant religious divide
ACT OF SUPREMACY (1559)
Elizabeth would be 'supreme governor of the Church' - 'governor' showing she is more tolerant to Catholics
Ecclesiastical high commision is established to maintain order within Church.
Pope did not have authourity, England became a Protestant country
ACT OF UNIFORMITY (1559) :
Established the appearance of the church and services.
Everyone had to attend the church on a Sunday and on Holy Days. Otherwise they would be fined
Set out the rules for religious practice and revised the prayer book
ROYAL INJUNCTIONS
Some Catholic traditions remained
a set of instructions issued that gave instructions on how to worship God
This included clergy teaching the royal supremacy, the church fining anyone who did not attend church. Each Parish had an English church. Clergy had to wear special catholic clothing.
Did not however keep everyone happy. Opposition did come from the Catholics and the Puritans
NEW PRACTICES
Church created Protestant but had a common prayer book
Catholic mass abandoned
Bible written in English. Clergy could marry
Catholic style vestements and communion tables
TREASON ACT 1571
Anyone who left their country for more than 6 months had their land confiscated to prevent English Catholics from going abroad to train as missionaries
Catholics bring Papal Bull of excommunication into England = punished by death
Done to stop increasing Catholic Plots
CATHOLIC THREATS
Papal Bull of Excommunication
The Pope declared Catholics had to no longer obey the Queen and they were encourages to overthrow her
This and the Northern Rebellion made Catholics a potential threat to Elizabeth.
As a result the government became less tolerant of recusancy ( refusal to go to Church )
Pope encouraged Catholic priests to undertake missionary work.
Mary Queen of Scots
Cousin to Elizabeth and so had a dynastic claim to the throne
She was forced to abdicate as the Queen of Scotland and escaped to England, seeking refuge from Elizabeth (
1568
)
Threat of Mary
Many English Catholics supported the ideas of May being Queen and successor
Elizabeth was
illegitimate
as she was the daughter of Henry VIII's second marriage
Mary would reverse religious settlement and restore Catholic Church
Catholic Plots against Elizabeth
Northern Rebellion (1569)
Many Northern Nobles were still committed Catholics
They wanted to restore catholicism
Elizabeth confiscated
lands from Earl fo Northumberland and gave them to rivals and Protestants
Elizabeth increased her control of the NOrth and Cecil and her advisors said she should
WHAT HAPPENED
In
1569
the Duke of Norfolk hatched a plan to Marry Queen of Scots and recognise her as Queen
The Earls plan had been discovered and they then tried to overthrow Elizabeth. Captured Durham, celebrated Catholic mass and then marched South
Had 6,000 rebels
Elizabeth crushed the army and killed 800 rebels
Significance
Most Catholics still supported Elizabeth
Created more Anti-Catholic feelings
RIDOLFI PLOT (1571)
Attempt to restore Catholicism involving the Queen of Scots, Pope, Phillip II and Duke of Norfolk
Elizabeth would be assasinated and replaced with
Mary Queen of Scots
6,000 Spanish troops landed in Essex and 40,000 men though to have been able to assemble
Consequences
Elizabeth's intelligence network discovered the conspiracy
Norfolk arrested and executed. Spanish ambassador expelled
Law: Anyone assasinating monarch could not succeed throne
THE THROCKMORTON PLOT (1583)
Planned by the French Catholic Force and the Spanish Papal money
Queen of Scots would be freed from house arrest and involved in Catholic uprising with
JESUITS
.
Elizabeth would be captured and murdered, Mary being installed as Queen
Francis Throckmorton intermediary in the plan. He was arrested and tortured
Babington Plot (1586)
Mary was moved to TIlbury Castle. Her Jailer was a strict Protestant
The was done to push Mary into another plot. Mary began her correspondence with Sir Anthony Babbington
Plan to kill Elizabeth and make Mary free. Walsingham knew but let the plou unfold.
When Mary accepted assasination, Babington and other conspirators arrested
Significance
Mary was killed
Elizabeth seen as victim as she was forced to muder Mary as Cousin, specifically by William Davison
PURITAN THREATS
Puritans were strict Protestants who wanted to get rid of all Catholic faith.
Privy Councillors and MPs such as Earl of Leicester tried to Pressurise Elizabeth to take harsher steps on Catholics.
Walter Strickland - the leader of Puritan parliament group
wanted a new prayer book. Elizabeth closed parliament to ignore him