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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603

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Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn was born at Greenwich on 7 September 1533. She was the half-sister of the elder Mary (1516-1558) and the younger Edward (1537-1553). In her early years she acquired knowledge of Latin, French, and Italian, and showed proficiency in music. Her governesses and tutors tended to adhere to Reformation principles. Identification with Protestantism aroused the suspicions of Mary, a Catholic, on her succession after the death of Edward, even though she had sided with her against Lady Jane Grey who had also been announced as successor. Implicated in the Wyatt rebellion of 1554, Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London and at Woodstock for around six months. In November 1558, Mary died and Elizabeth succeeded her at the age of twenty-five. Almost immediately, she restored England to Protestantism and away from the Catholic party. The Act of Supremacy, passed by Parliament and approved in 1559, revived the antipapal statutes of Henry VIII and declared the monarch supreme governor of the Anglican Church, while the Act of Uniformity established the Book of Common Prayer. Although Elizabeth's rule was directed towards peace and economy, she did try to strengthen her throne by giving secret help to Protestants in Scotland, France and the Low Countries, and she attempted to weaken any power that threatened her authority. An instrument in this policy was Sir Francis Walsingham (1530-1590) and his corrupt system of espionage both at home and abroad. It was Walsingham who revealed the 1586 Babington Plot against Elizabeth, and which implicated Mary, Queen of Scots, who was then under house arrest at Chartley in Staffordshire. With the consent of Elizabeth, Mary was executed at Fotheringay Castle on 8 February 1587. The participation of the Catholic party in the Plot was met with persecution, and this together with the execution of a Catholic Queen enraged Philip II of Spain already angry about English incitement of rebellion in the Spanish Netherlands. In 1588, the Spanish Armada sailed against England but was repelled by the considerably smaller English force and its captains Howard, Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher. Elizabeth died at Richmond on 24 March 1603. She was succeeded by James VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots.

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referencedIn	" A BOOKE of all suche garments, jewells, silkes, and other stuffe, garnishmentes of golde, pearle, and stone, and also of dyuers stones of seuerall natures and workemanship, as are remayninge in the offyce of the Garderobe of Robes the . . . daye of...	British Library
referencedIn	" A GENERALL Collection of all the offices in England with their fees, in the Queenes guift." Paper; ff. 30. Temp . Elizabeth. Small Quarto.	British Library
referencedIn	" PIÈCES touchantes la ville d'Anvers "; 1521-1585. Flemish and French. Included are:-1. " Tax ende settinghe " of the contribution assigned to Antwerp of a levy of 12,000 foot-soldiers imposed on Brabant by an ordinance of 21 Oct. 1521. f. 3. 2. Lo..., 16th century-17th century	British Library
referencedIn	" REMEMBRANCES of Instrucciones necessarie to be embrasid for the policie of this and the time to comme," by Roger Edwardes. With a signed dedication to Queen Elizabeth, 8 March, 1568[9]. The original draft with many corrections and long passages era..., 1569	British Library
referencedIn	" THE BOOKE of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions," etc.: a common-place book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (ob. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, co. Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry ..., 1525-1625	British Library
referencedIn	"A BOOKE of Letters receaved by Sir Christopher Hatton, Vicechamberlayne to the Queene's Majestie, from sundry parsons, and procured by hym to be written in this same booke ;" probably copied by his Secretary, Samuel Cox, many of whose own letters ar..., 1572-1640	British Library
referencedIn	"A BOOKE of Warrantes to the great Guarderobe, Tempore Regine Elizabeth, towchyng her Maiesties Roobes and Appareill": a register of warrants addressed to John Fortescue, Master of the Great Wardrobe for payments for materials and workmanship, as wel..., 1568-1589	British Library
referencedIn	"A CHOROGRAPHICALL discription of the seuerall Shires and Islands of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Hamshire, Weighte, Garnesey and Jersey, performed by the traueyle and uiew of John Norden, 1595." An original MS. with dedication to Queen Elizabet..., 1595	British Library
referencedIn	"A DUTIFUL defence of the lawfull Regiment of weomen," etc., by Lord Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton; with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth. On f. 2 b are some Latin elegiae verses, in the hand of, and signed by, the author, addressed to ..., approximately 1580	British Library
referencedIn	"A MEMORIALL of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the Vth vppon the resignement of his gouermente and stats [in 1556] to his sonne [Philip II.] the now kinge of Spaine": a translation from the Spanish by Lord Henry Howard [cr. Earl...	British Library

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associatedWith	Alabaster, William, 1567-1640.
associatedWith	Anne 1574-1619
childOf	Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536.
associatedWith	Arundel, Philip Howard, Earl of, Saint, 1557-1595.
associatedWith	Aylmer, John, 1521-1594,
associatedWith	Babington, Anthony, 1561-1586.
associatedWith	Bacon, Anthony, 1558-1601.
associatedWith	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
correspondedWith	Bacon, Nicholas, Sir, 1509-1579.
associatedWith	Barnett, John, 1802-1890.