Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 Home Learning Booklet KT2
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Thamesview School History Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 Home Learning Booklet KT2: Challenges at Home and Abroad, 1569-88 Instructions • Complete the knowledge recall sections of the booklet. • Answer the exam questions. Plots and Revolts at Home 1. Write the number of each of the following events and developments in the appropriate column to identify whether it was a key cause, event or consequence of the Revolt of the Northern Earls. Cause Event Consequence 1: The Earl of Sussex assembled a 2: The earls had political and 3: From 9 to 15 November 1569 huge royal army of 10,000 men, economic grievances against the earls of Northumberland and causing the Northern Earls to turn Elizabeth. She had weakened Westmorland urged all their back their march and escape into their control by appointing a tenants to join their army and Scotland. The Earl of Council of the North and had march south to bring an end to Northumberland was later taken lands from nobles, the Privy Council, which executed, along with 450 rebels. including the Earl of supported Elizabeth’s policies. Northumberland. 4: The revolt had little chance of 5: Elizabeth’s government did not 6: The earls had strong Catholic success since it was ineffectively panic. Officials in the north traditions, and both had taken led, confused in its aims and prevented rebels from taking key part in a plan to marry Mary lacked the support of most towns and were successful in Queen of Scots to the Duke of English Catholics, who were not raising a huge army in support of Norfolk to further support her committed to the revolt. The Elizabeth. This army was prepared claim to the throne. They held a revolt also did not receive to fight to defend her governance Catholic service in Durham support from abroad. of the kingdom. Cathedral. 2. Read the statements and then write the appropriate number in the empty box in the table below to identify whether each statement describes a cause, event or significance of the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 or the Throckmorton Plot of 1583. 1: Elizabeth’s government 2: Mary Queen of Scots used 3: Throckmorton was put under carefully unravelled the details of Ridolfi to carry messages to surveillance in April 1583; he was the plot. Norfolk’s servants Catholics abroad, urging them to arrested in June and, after a betrayed him under interrogation organise an invasion of England. search of his house, incriminating and the duke was arrested in Their aim was to overthrow papers detailing the plan were September 1571, bringing an end Elizabeth, make Mary queen and discovered. Throckmorton to a plot that had failed to be put restore the Catholic religion. A confessed under torture to this into action. coded message was left with the plan and was executed in July Duke of Norfolk. 1584. 1 Cause Event Significance Ridolfi Plot of 1571 The Duke of Norfolk was put on trial in January 1572 and beheaded in June. Ridolfi stayed abroad. Elizabeth passed an Act saying that anyone claiming she was not the rightful queen was a traitor, but fears of Catholic plotting remained. Throckmorton Plot of Francis Throckmorton The plot confirmed that 1583 carried letters from Mary some Catholics Queen of Scots to the continued to plot against French and Spanish Elizabeth. Fears ambassadors and was in increased after the touch with English assassination of William Catholic nobles. The plan of Orange in July 1584. was to create an uprising Elizabeth’s government of English Catholics, intensified its assisted by a French surveillance to protect invasion and Spanish Elizabeth and to financial support, to free incriminate Mary in any Mary and restore plots. Catholicism. 3. Put the following statements about the Babington Plot of 1586 into chronological order by writing the number of each in the table. Chronological Order Statement 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 2 1: In July 1586 Babington wrote 2: Babington and two other 3: Babington was apparently to Mary, outlining six steps to conspirators were arrested as unaware that this latest plot make the plan a success. The they attempted to flee, and the originated from a fanatical priest steps involved planning for a rest were rounded up and whom Elizabeth’s government foreign invasion (probably from condemned to death for treason. already had under surveillance. Spain, with which England was They were executed in September The intention was to murder already at war), freeing Mary and 1586 and Mary was moved to Elizabeth, make Mary queen and murdering Elizabeth. Fotheringhay Castle to begin her restore Catholicism. trial. 4: In September and October 5: Anthony Babington was a page 6: Elizabeth’s government had evidence was heard and legal to the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was placed spies in Mary’s household, proceedings discussed Mary’s responsible for Mary’s custody who persuaded her that it was role in the plot. At the end of and had carried letters for her in safe to send letters hidden in October, the Commissioners the early 1580s. In 1586, urged by beer barrels. Mary could not found Mary guilty of plotting to Catholic friends, he appears to resist, and all of her letters were take Elizabeth’s life and have been persuaded to engage intercepted and sent to recommended that she should be in more serious plotting. Walsingham. Mary replied to executed. Babington on 17 July 1586 and her fate was sealed. 4. Study the mind map and then explain in the table each method developed by Walsingham to keep Elizabeth safe. To help, use the knowledge of the plots you have studied. 1 Intercepting coded messages 6 2 Capturing Employing a Catholic spy network priests Walsingham’s Methods to keep Elizabeth safe 3 5 Acts of Interrogation Parliament and torture 4 Searches and registers 3 Methods developed by Walsingham to keep Elizabeth safe 1. Intercepting coded messages 2. Employing a spy network 3. Acts of Parliament 4. Searches and registers 5. Interrogation and torture 6. Capturing Catholic priests 5. Put the following key causes, events and consequences of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots into chronological order by writing the number of each in the table. Chronological Order Causes, Events and Consequences 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 1: Elizabeth’s Council and 2: On 17 July Walsingham’s spies 3: Mary’s trial was in October Parliament were hostile to Mary’s intercepted Mary’s reply to 1586 and she was found guilty of claim to the throne. Babington’s plotting. 4: The Commissioners 5: In July 1586 Babington wrote 6: Mary was increasingly recommended execution and the to Mary outlining six steps to end disillusioned with her Protestantism. 4 death warrant was signed in confinement in England since February 1587. 1568. Relations with Spain 6. Write the number of each of the following statements in the correct column to identify whether it represented increasing political rivalry or increasing religious rivalry between England and Spain. Increasing Political Rivalry Increasing Religious Rivalry 1: In 1559 Elizabeth established a 2: King Philip of Spain was the 3: Spain appeared to be Protestant Church of England and ruler of the most powerful country implicated in the political plotting she began to increase penalties in the world, with interests in the of Catholics in England against against Catholics through Acts of Spanish Netherlands and the New Elizabeth’s governance in the Parliament in 1571, 1581 and World in the Americas. Revolt of the Northern Earls and 1585. These Acts increased the Commercial interests and wealth in the Ridolfi, Throckmorton and concerns of the Spanish gained in these areas made it Babington plots. Such interference ambassadors in England and they important for Philip to defend was a major irritation to counselled the King of Spain Spanish political interests, and Elizabeth’s government and was accordingly. England was perceived as the source of ongoing political undermining such interests. tension between the two countries. 4: Philip’s policy towards England 5: As Catholic missionaries began 6: In 1570 the Pope was complicated because he increasingly to arrive in England excommunicated Elizabeth from preferred Elizabeth as queen to support English Catholics from the Catholic Church. While King rather than Mary Queen of Scots, the 1570s onwards, fears in Philip of Spain took no immediate as Mary had links with France. If England of a religious crusade to action, this intensified the Spain was too hostile to England, restore Catholicism were religious divisions between the he feared that England might be intensified. Such religious two countries because it justified driven into an alliance with France, differences continued to further the reaction of foreign powers to which would further undermine sour relations that emerged from Elizabeth’s religious reforms. Spanish political interests. political and commercial differences. 5 7. Write the number of each of the following events and developments under the most appropriate heading to help summarise the key reasons for the increasing commercial rivalry between England and Spain before 1585. Decline of the Antwerp wool Spanish concerns over trade in Spanish anger over English trade from 1550 the New World pirates 1: From the 1550s onwards, 2: The Spanish Empire in the New 3: In 1562 and 1564 John Hawkins English explorers began to look World consisted of Mexico, Peru, made two slave trade voyages for new trading markets after the Chile and the Caribbean. For from Africa to sell slaves to collapse of the Antwerp market in English explorers these areas colonists in the New World. This wool. This involved making presented commercial was an illegal attempt to break arrangements in new areas like opportunities to make money fast, into Spain’s trading empire, and it Russia and India, but also in the either through attacking Spanish increased commercial and political New World, where Spain was treasure fleets or by trading rivalry between the two countries.