Assess the pressures on Elizabeth when making her Religious Settlement
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- Assess the pressures on Elizabeth when making her Religious Settlement
- Elizabeth's personal beliefs and background
- Legitimacy
- Child of a second marriage so not legitimate in the eyes of the Catholic church
- Fundamental point when putting forward the Settlement as she risked jeopardising her claim to the throne
- Personal beliefs
- On Christmas day 1558 she told the bishop not to elevate the host, as this implied a Catholic practice
- She retained some Catholic elements as she like elaborate Church music and disliked the idea of a married clergy
- Elizabeth believed she has the divine right to be the monarch
- She should be able to shape the policy ( religion was a prerogative issue)
- Legitimacy
- Foreign Situation
- Spain
- Phillip allowed Elizabeth to follow her own religious beliefs
- Although Phillip was Catholic, he did not want England falling into the hands of the French
- This allowed her to be less concerned about the French threat because Phillip would support her
- Situation in Scotland
- Scotland had a viable claim to the English throne so Elizabeth did not want to anger them by becoming a radical Protestant
- Mary de Guise was ruling while Mary was in France and she was overthrown by Catholic Lords so Elizabeth had less to worry about
- War with France
- England has been at was with France and Scotland
- To achieve success she had been advised to not become aggressively Protestant
- Due to her signing away their territory in Calais it had been agreed that Elizabeth could pursue her own religion
- Spain
- Domestic Situation
- Catholics in the House of Lords
- Mary appointed bishops in the House of Lords and they were not prepared to compromise over religion
- They managed to defeat her first proposal
- She then sent them to the tower which was crucial in the voting and allowed her to pass:
- Act of Uniformity
- Act of Supremacy
- Returning Exiles
- Puritans had radical views but did not put much pressure of Elizabeth
- She had a personal dislike of Puritans but because there was so few, they were not a major consideration of hers
- Catholics in the House of Lords
- Elizabeth's personal beliefs and background
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