GCSE History: The Elizabethan Age

In what year did Elizabeth become queen?

1558

How much was the Marian debt?

£227 000

Which small body of the Queen’s most important ministers helped Elizabeth to rule the country effectively?

Privy Council

Name three other Tudor monarchs.

Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I

How old was Elizabeth when she became queen?

25

When was Elizabeth’s coronation?

15th January 1559

Where was Elizabeth’s coronation?

Westminster Abbey

How much did Elizabeth’s coronation cost?

£16,000

Name one of the famous portraits of Elizabeth.

The ‘Armada Portrait’ (1588), The Pelican Portrait (1574) and The ‘Ditchley Portrait’ (1592), the Ermine Portrait

In what year did she catch smallpox?

1562

How many times did Elizabeth visit the north of England, the south-west and Wales?

0

Where was her main royal residence?

Whitehall

How many people did Elizabeth have on her Privy Council by 1559?

19

How many of Elizabeth’s Privy Council were strong Catholics?

0

Who was Elizabeth’s most important Councillor - he served her for 40 years as first Secretary of State.

Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley)

What title was Robert Dudley given in 1564?

Earl of Leicester

When Christopher Hatton joined the Royal Court what was he responsible for organising?

The Queen’s progresses

Which member of the Privy Council uncovered the plot by Mary Queen of Scots to murder Elizabeth?

Sir Francis Walsingham

What happened to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex in 1601?

He was executed

Which privy council member was responsible for making the arrangements for the succession of James VI?

Robert Cecil

How many people sat in the House of Lords?

Nearly 100

How many people sat in the House of Commons?

450

Which house of parliament contained elected representatives?

House of Commons

How many times did Elizabeth call parliament during her reign?

13

Which MP was sent to prison in 1576 for complaining about a lack of freedom of speech?

Peter Wentworth

Whom did Elizabeth use at local level to help rule the country?

System of JPs (Justices of the Peace) or Lord Lieutenants

Whose job was it to keep the Queen informed of what was happening in each county, to form a county army in an emergency and to ensure soldiers were well-trained?

Lord Lieutenant

Whose job was to collect the poor rate and distribute the money to those in need?

Overseer of the poor

Who was responsible for carrying out punishments such as whipping?

Parish constable

Who patrolled the streets at night watching out for criminals?

Night watchman

How many JPs were there in each county?

40 (30-60)

What was the population of England in the 1540s?

2.7 million

What was the population of England in 1601?

4.1 million

In which decade did the dissolution of the monasteries take place?

1530s

What two types of poor were believed to exist in Elizabethan England?

Able-bodied and impotent

Name an Elizabethan mansion house in Derbyshire that was completed in 1597.

Hardwick Hall, Longleat House (Wiltshire) and St Fagan’s Castle

How many times was Bess of Hardwick married?

4

Name one of the new hospitals opened in London to care for the poor.

St Bartholomew and St Thomas

How many grammar schools were there?

Approximately 360

Which two universities would a gentleman wish to attend?

Oxford and Cambridge

What happened to food prices between 1500-1600?

Inflation / they went up

What was a ‘bridewell’?

House of Correction

Where was the first one opened?

Norwich

Which country was Elizabeth at war with from 1585?

Spain

How did war cause poverty?

Increased taxes and unemployed or wounded soldiers

Name a type of vagrant.

Hooker, angler, clapper dudgeon, doxy, Abraham man, ruffle, dummerers or counterfeit crank

Name one of the towns that experimented with taxing the wealthy to deal with the poor.

Cambridge, Ipswich, Exeter and Norwich

What changes in farming methods took place that led to more people living in poverty?

Enclosure or sheep instead of crops

Name an orphanage opened in London.

Christ’s Hospital

When was a Poor Rate introduced?

1572 (Vagabonds Act)

What did JPs have to build according to the 1576 Act for the Relief of the Poor?

House of Correction

In what year was the 1598 Poor Law made permanent?

1601

Name an animal that would be involved in a cruel Elizabethan sport.

Bull, dog, cocks or bear

Name the most famous London arena, called a Bear Garden, for Bear Baiting.

Paris Garden in Southwark

In what year did Elizabeth overrule MPs who wanted to pass a law banning bear baiting on a Sunday?

1585

On which day did theatres have to close after a law was passed in 1591 to protect the bull and bear baiting industries?

Thursday

Name an Elizabethan composer.

Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, Morley and William Byrd

Name one of the popular tunes that the upper classes employed musicians to play.

Slow paven, the galliard, the gavotte and the volta

Name one of the new theatres constructed during the period.

The Rose, The Crown, The Swan, The Curtain, The Theatre, The Hope and The Globe.

Britain’s first purpose built theatre was opened in what year?

1576

In what year were bands of strolling players banned unless they obtained a licence?

1572

What were men over the age of 24 expected to practice after church on a Sunday?

Archery

Name one of the most famous playwrights of the period.

William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Kyd

Name one of the most famous actors of the period.

Will Kempe, Edward Alleyn, Thomas Pope and Richard Burbage

Name one of the sports enjoyed exclusively by the rich.

Deer hunting, hawking, fencing, tennis and bowls.

Name a company that performed in the theatre.

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men, Queen Elizabeth’s Men, Lord Admiral Howard’s Company and Earl of Leicester’s Players

What was the population of London in 1603?

200 000

How much was the cheapest ticket to the theatre?

1 penny

Which religious group was opposed to the theatre?

Puritans

In what year did Elizabeth pass her Religious Settlement?

1559

Name the two acts that made up her Religious Settlement.

The Act of Uniformity, The Act of Supremacy

Who did the Catholic King of France, Francis II, claim was the rightful ruler of England?

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland

Who was Elizabeth’s mother?

Anne Boleyn

Name the cleric who was responsible for Elizabeth’s religious education whom she late appointed as her first Archbishop of Canterbury (1559-1575).

Matthew Parker

After the Religious Settlement all church services were now compulsory and conducted using the 1552 \_________________?

Book of Common Prayer

In what year did Foxe produce the Book of Martyrs showing how bad things had been under Mary in the hope that people would accept Elizabeth’s religious settlement?

1563

In 1563 Elizabeth translated the Bible into which language?

Welsh

In what year did a Papal Bull excommunicate Elizabeth?

1570

Name the Catholic priest who was tortured and executed on Elizabeth’s instruction

Edmund Campion

What title did The Act of Supremacy give Elizabeth?

Supreme Governor of the Church of England

Before 1581 recusants *(those who refused to go to church) had to pay a fine of how much for every absence from church service?

1 shilling (12 pence)

What was the collective name of the strongly Catholic bishops who opposed Elizabeth’s reforms?

The Marian Bishops

What was the name of the set of instructions given to the clergy in 1559?

The Royal Injunctions

In what year was the Act of Exchange passed that allowed Elizabeth to take land and buildings belonging to the church and force bishops to rent land to her?

1559

In what year did the Queen finally approve the Thirty-nine Articles of faith (the beliefs of the Church of England) that were drawn up in 1563?

1571

In what year did the Rebellion of the Northern Earls take place?

1569

Name one of the Northern Earls that led the 1569 rebellion.

Charles Neville, Earl of Westmoreland and Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland

When did Mary Queen of Scots arrive in England?

1568

Name one of Mary Queen of Scots husbands?

Francis II, Henry Stuart (Lord Darnley) and James Hepburn (Earl of Bothwell)

When was the Papal Bull of Excommunication that excused anyone from murdering Elizabeth?

1570

How did Parliament respond to the Papal Bull?

They passed a Treason Act (1571)

From where did seminary priests first arrive in 1574?

Douai in Flanders

Who was involved in the Ridolfi Plot, 1571 apart from Ridolfi and Mary?

The Duke of Norfolk, the Pope, De Spes (Spanish Ambassador) and the King of Spain (Phillip II)

To what amount did Elizabeth increase the fine for recusancy to in 1581?

£20

Who financed the Throckmorton Plot, 1583?

The Pope and the King of Spain

What happened to Francis Throckmorton?

Executed

Where was Mary imprisoned following the Throckmorton plot?

Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire

In what year did Jesuit priests first arrive in England?

1580

Name the Jesuit priest who was found guilty of treason and was executed on 1st December 1581.

Edmund Campion

Name the English Catholic that tried to assassinate Elizabeth with a pistol in the summer of 1583.

John Somerville