Parliament

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traditionally what is the main function of Parliament?
raising taxes and passing subsidies
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How many times did Elizabeth ask for a subsidy?
12/13
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What did the Royal Prerogative cover?
Foreign Policy, Religion, the Queen's spending and income, Succession and marriage
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How many times did Elizabeth use her veto solely due to her own wishes?
5/34
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How many times did Elizabeth use her veto due to flaws in drafting?
8/34
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Elizabeth could use her veto if she felt bills could risk the public, how often did this happen?
21/34
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Elizabeth used speeches as a method of control, when was her famous golden speech and what did she say?
1601: "there is no Prince who loves his subjects better"
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what proportion of seats in the House of Commons were controlled by the House of Lords?
1/3
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How many seats did Essex control in the 1580s?
30
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The commons grew in this period, by how much?
400 seats to 462 seats
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the enfranchisement of the boroughs led to what?
an increasing amount of trained gentry sitting in Parliament
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Robert Bell was speaker from when
1572
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The Queen had the power to prorogue Parliament - when was the longest period she prorogued for
1576-1581
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Why did the Queen Prorogue Parliament in 1576?
Elizabeth was forced to accept a well worded petition on the succession
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Neale pointed out a group known as the Puritan choir - how many members did it contain?
46
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Parliament did attempt to use the subsidy as a political tool - when
1567 (Elizabeth remitted 1/3) and 1586
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Which Historians pioneered the idea the Parliament was controlled by the Privy Council
John Guy and Patrick Collinson - Post Revisionists
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Who argued that Elizabeth never thought about not having Parliament?
revisionist and post revisionist
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When was Copes Book and Bill introduced?
1586
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When did Walsingham try to organise a conference with bishops after failing to get Whitgift's suspensions lifted through Parliament?
1584
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What did Dr Turner try to introduce in 1584 which was so controversial
a revised Prayer Book and Genevan Service
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petitions asking for the queen to allow the debate of the succession (organised by the Privy Council) were introduced when?
1566 and 1567
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Parliament tried to use public pressure to influence the queen when was this seen?
1586 Huge petitions to replace the Prayer Book with the Book of Discipline
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When did Wentworth speak out about freedom of speech
1567, 1571, 1576 and 1586
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In 1571 Wentworth spoke on the common's privilege - what happened?
was stopped midflow and sent to the tower by the commons
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William Strickland was arrested in 1571 - why
impinging on the royal prerogative (wanted to reform the canon law and prayer book)
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which was the shortest parliamentary session?
1571
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What is often seen as Parliaments greatest success?
getting Elizabeth to sign Norfolk death warrant in 1572
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