Character and aims

• Short term aims


  - Consolidate her position

  - Settle religious issues

  - peace settlement with France
• how old was Elizabeth when she became Queen?

  25
• how old was Elizabeth when her mother (Anne Boleyn) beheaded?

  2 years old - 1536
• Seymour Scandal


  Elizabeth lived with Katherine Parr who married Thomas Seymour who made advances on Elizabeth and attempted to marry her after Parr died to gain access to the crown
• the act of supremacy (1559)


  reinstated Henry VIII religious legislation

  queen= supreme governor of the church of England

  oath from all clergymen and church officials
• Elizabeth's church settlement


  1559 - mediated between Catholicism and Protestantism while she remained protestant
• the act of uniformity (1559)

  Re-established the use of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer and everyone had to attend church once a week or be fined 12p
• royal injunctions


  removed 'things superstitious', made the English Bible and Erasmus paraphrases available in every parish church. suppression of Catholic practices e.g. pilgrimage
• Thirty-Nine Articles (1563)


  The official statement of the beliefs of the Church of England. denied transubstantiation and ministers could marry
• Treaty of Edinburgh 1560


  stated Mary Queen of Scots would give up her claim to the English throne. Peace
• Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559)


  ended war with France. France got Calais for 8 years and thereafter, France could return it or pay £125,000 to keep it.