Elizabeth's Government cope with domestic problems
- Created by: Emily Barber
- Created on: 19-05-13 10:33
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- How successfully did Elizabeth's government cope with the domestic problems facing it?
- Social unrest
- 1586
- Food riots in Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset
- Trade recession and grain hoarding
- Starvation in Cumbria
- 1595
- Food riots in London
- JPs empowered to search for and seize grain
- 1596
- Oxfordshire rising
- Plan to take weapons from Norris's house and march on London
- Rising ruthlessly crushed
- Oxfordshire rising
- Poor law
- Guy - valued as placebo and lessened enclosure riots as showed gov't cared
- Lasted until 1834
- 1586
- Plague
- London burials double 1592-3
- High death rate 1603
- Plague Orders 1592-3
- Victims quarantined and special rates levied for victims
- Vagrancy
- Poor law 1601 meant dealt with swiftly and at Parish level - Slack
- Relief established for passing soldiers, and pensions
- little achieved in setting up houses of correction
- Corruption in the Government
- Goring died owning the crown £20,000
- Burghley took £3000+
- Sir Roger Manwood suspended for selling a clerkship
- War Effort
- 1589 500 unpaid soldiers in London
- 1596 Mutinies in Colchester vs being sent abroad
- Yorkshire officials refuse to collect ship money
- Elizabeth never went bankrupt
- Although purveyance and monopolies unpopular, less outcry than Charles I
- Irish rebellion crushed
- Expeditions launched vs Spain
- Crown lands sold - problem for the future
- Essex's Rebellion
- Narrow court
- Essex supported by impoverished nobles
- Essex indulged by Elizabeth - Loades
- Essex arrogant and impulsive
- Took 2 councillors hostage
- Elizabeth stripped Essex of place on council and title of Earl Marshal, and removed monopoly of sweet wines
- "An unruly horse must be abated of his provender" - Elizabeth
- Queen's guard doubled
- Essex arrested, tried and executed
- Ireland
- Full scale rebellion
- Tyrone had professional army
- defeated English troop at Yellowford
- Munster and most of Ireland lost
- Essex's army suffered from desertion
- Mountjoy's campaign defeated and ejected Spanish troops at Kinsale
- Regained Munster and pushed Tyrone back to Ulster
- Costly
- Tyron reinstated as Chief Lord of Ulster
- Succession
- Elizabeth refused to name successor - possibility of civil war
- Cecil negotiated secretly with James I and within hours he was proclaimed and accepted as King
- Conflict with Parliament
- 1601 Elizabeth promised to review monopolies and cancelled 12
- Set up committee to review purveyance and by 1597 most counties compounded
- 1601 monopolies denounced by Martin as "bloodsuckers"
- 1589 Parlt attempt bill vs purveyance
- Social unrest
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