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Elizabeth I - 1563 - 1603 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Throckmorton Plot 1583 - 84 - The Throckmorton Plot in 1583 was a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I accompanied by the invasion of England by the Duke of Guise. This plot terrified Elizabeth I's closest ministers and they wanted to have a backup plan in case she was killed.
      - Implications of the Bond of Association - Historians such as Lake have emphasised the far-reaching implications of the Bond of Association. Cecil essentially planned a situation where there would be no monarch: a republic. Cecil wanted to give a select group of politicians the authority to choose the future monarch. This was unprecedented as usually the ability to choose the line of succession was a royal prerogative.
      - Historical assessment - Historian Patrick Collinson (2011) argues that: 'The overwhelming imperative [message] in the documents appears to be to substitute [replace] a rational process for the blind arbitrament of the sword [random violence], it being all but assumed that civil war will otherwise follow the queen’s death.' Collinson (2011) shows how terrified contemporaries were of civil war. One imagined it would be “hell it selfe, every man by force defendinge his owen, all kynd of owtragious Ryott and villanye”