Mary I 1553 - 1558

Mary's Policy agenda
1. Convince the Privy Council of her right to be queen
2. Restore the Catholic religion
3. Marry and have children
  1. July 1554: Marriage of Mary and Philip of Spain
  2. Jan 1554: Publication of marriage treaty
  3. Jan 1554: Wyatt's rebellion
    1. Anti-Mary? Anti-Foreigners? Xenophobic?
      1. Also a result of decline in cloth trade, poor harvests and social and economic greivances
    2. Parliament also doesn't want Mary to marry Philip
      1. Rebellion planned in 1553
      2. Wyatt raises 3,000 men
    3. Rebellion reaches London's gates
    4. Showed that although Protestants were a miniority their opinions could not be ignored.
4. Choose privy councillors
5. Decide how to deal with Northumberland and his supporters
6. Defend Calais and Guisnes in France
7. Look after her health
8. Bolster her security
9. Restore her legitimacy
Death of Edward on July 6th. Mary proclaimed Queen July 20th
Religious Reforms
1. Aug 1553: Proclamation that Mary "mideth not to compel any of her said subjects..." Many Protestant clegy were deprived of their livings.
2. Sep 1553: Archbishop Cranmer arrested. Hugh Latimer, John Hooper, Nicholas Ridley and John Rogers imprisoned
3. Autumn 1553: Parliament refused to repeal the Act of Supremacy. Parliament did pass an Act of Repeal which undid all of the Edwardian Reformation, revived the Mass, ritual worship and clerical celibacy, and implicitly reaffrimed the traditional doctrin Transubstantiation.

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