Government Structure + Relations Overseas

• Court: entertain and advise the monarch
• Privy Council: made up of 19 members, William Cecil was Secretary of State, debate issues, advise monarch, oversee government, security, law
• Parliament: made up of the House of Lords and Commons, pass laws, grant extra taxes, called and dismissed by the monarch (13 times during her reign)
• Lord Lieutenant: each county had one, chosen by the monarch, part of local government
• Justice of the Peace: unpaid but gave them important status, enforced law and order, selected by local gentry (landlords of the countryside)
• France: during Mary’s reign she lost Calais, so France now controlled the entire Northern coastline and left England vulnerable to attacks
• Spain: King Philip II was a strong Catholic and disliked Elizabeth reintroducing Protestantism into England