Mary I

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What year was she proclaimed Queen?
1553
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When were recoinage plans drawn up?
1556-1558 (not implemented until Elizabeth's reign)
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When were harvest failures?
1555-56 (severe food shortages, strain on real wages for the poor)
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When was sweating sickness?
1557-1558 (death toll was worse of the century)
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What was the 1555 poor law?
ordered licensed beggars to wear a badge, to encourage parishioners into donating more alms for poor relief
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What and when was the new book of rates published?
In 1558, and it helped raise custom revenue (all goods leaving the country were taxed and the income was passed to the crown)
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What did the Court of Exchequer take over?
Both the court of first fruits and tenths and the Court of Augmentation = more organised
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How many new ships had been built by the end of Mary's reign because of the reorganisation and finance of the Navy?
6
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What did Mary do to the strong Protestant minority in London?
Some of the Prominent Protestant clergy (including 7 bishops) were deprived of their livings & foreign protestants were ordered to leave the country
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How did Mary act to members of political elites who had church land that they didn't want to give back?
1554- Pope Julius agreed not to claim back church land (reduced opposition)
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How many mps voted against her religious changes at her 1st parliament?
80
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1553 - First act of repeals
Took away religious legislation approved by Edward and the church was restored to its state of 1547
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1554 - what happened? (religious change)
Cardinal Pole sent to England as legate and Archbishop of Canterbury . The second act of repeal abolished ALL doctrinal legislation since 1529
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1555 - Act of Supremacy
Made the Pope the head of the church again
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1555 - What happened cont.
Protestants who renounced their faith would be burnt at the stake
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How many Protestants were burnt in total?
280
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How many Protestants went into exile abroad to escape Prosecution?
800
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Who was burn at the stake in 1556?
Archbishop Cranmer
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Cardinal Pole was dismissed as Papal Legate in 1557, what does this show?
The large discontent and opposition from the public
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From 1558 onwards, who was the death penalty given to?
Anyone involved in prohibited
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What had Pole tried to impose?
Reforms to the church to increase the number of priests e.g by having seminary priests in every cathedral (Never implemented because of Mary's short reign)
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When did Mary marry Phillip?
1554
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What was included in the marriage treaty?
Phillip was given the title but no actual power and if Mary died he had no claim to the throne
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Who was Bishop Gardiner?
Lord Chancellor, she trusted him because he kept to his faith throughout Edward's reign
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Who was william paget?
A moderate from Edward's reign, catholic
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Why did she trust Simon Renard so much?
Ambassador of Charles V and later adviser of Phillip
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Wyatts Rebellion - 1554?
Thomas Wyatt marched 4000 men to London, to remove Mary from the throne and also because they were not happy with her marriage to Philip (xenophobia - dislike of foreigners) Shows that Protestant views could not be ignored. The rebels were repelled
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What happened to Wyatt and the rebels?
He was hung and 90 of the rebels were also executed
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Why was the movement of industries from town to countryside discouraged? (variation!)
To reduce urban unemployment
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