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Succeeded to the throne after the death of Mary I. Elizabeth’s first priority on becoming Queen was to return England to the Protestant faith.
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Taken together with the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the Royal Injunctions in July 1559, completed the settlement of religion upon which the Church of England is based. The hybrid thus created was a compromise that left numerous issues unresolved.
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Rebellion breaks out in the north, led by Catholic earls
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issues his bull, Regnans in Excelsis,
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Parliament passes the Act against Jesuits, seminary priests and ‘other such like disobedient persons’
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Mary had been tried in October 1586 for her involvement in the Babington Plot, a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, and had been found guilty.
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Anthony Cope presented a new ‘bill and book’ in the 1586-7 Parliament, for which he and four other Members were imprisoned in the Tower. Cope’s bill was the last attempt to bring in legislation that would completely overhaul the Elizabethan Settlement
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The Marprelate Tracts were a series of seven printed pamphlets appearing in late 1588. The tracts, whose authorship was a well-guarded secret, lampooned individual bishops in the Anglican church, and viciously attacked the church in general.
