Elizabeth succession problems

Aims at start of reign

4 levels of Elizabethan government

Royal Court

What was the Privy Council?

Key roles of Privy Council

Conservative members of PC

Protestant councillors on PC

Problems with PC in 1580s

Court factional rivalry

Queens public image

How did Elizabeth create a strong image?

Define Patronage

Importance of Parliament

How were Parliament sessions managed?

Parliament and succession

What was Elizabeths main aim in parliament?

Parliament in 1601

JPs

Lord Lieutenants

Financial problems facing gov

How were royal finances raised?

Response to 1559 settlement

Emergence of puritanism

What were the 1566 'Advertisements'?

What was the Presbyterian movement?

Who was Whitgift?

Separatists

Decline of Puritanism

Catholicism at the start of Elizabeths reign

Why did Elizabeth's policy towards Catholicism become stricter?

Douai Priests

Jesuit Priests

Parliamentary acts against Priests

Condition of Church in 1603