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How significant were domestic threats to the
development of English diplomacy 1572-1588?
- Domestic threats
- Ridolfi Plot in 1571
- Norfolk was involved
- Links with Spain
in England
- Norfolk was involved
- Seminary priests arrived in 1574
- Challenged Protestant thinkers
- Primary objective was religion
- They were an "enemy within"
- Showed Elizabeth's weakness if she ignored them
- Could rise up with backing from
the Spanish Armada of Pope
- Challenged Protestant thinkers
- Jesuits arrived in 1580
- Re-converted
people into
Catholics
- Shows active
religious opposition
not just in theory
but in practice
- Walsingham easily found out
Jesuit priests, little opposition
- Eg Edmund Campion was arrested in July
1581 and executed in December because
he refused to renounce Catholicism
- Eg Edmund Campion was arrested in July
1581 and executed in December because
he refused to renounce Catholicism
- The numerous Acts passed through Parliament to try and
outlaw the actions of priests and Jesuits shows that
Elizabeth was worried about religious opposition or a rising
- Eg 1581 Act to retain the Queen's
Majesty's Subjects in their due
Obedience declared it was treason to
seek to convert a subject to
Catholicism
- But could arguably also show that they later became
of no threat as they could now be dealt with easily
- 250 people executed: both
significant or not significant
- Eg 1581 Act to retain the Queen's
Majesty's Subjects in their due
Obedience declared it was treason to
seek to convert a subject to
Catholicism
- With hindsight, the fact that there
was no revolt against Elizabeth's
religious policy so it shows that
they were of no significant threat
as they remained loyal to Elizabeth
- Re-converted
people into
Catholics
- The Treaty of Berwick 1586
- Shows a
fundamental fear of
a Scottish-Spanish
alliance so trying to
appease James
- However, James was willing to create he
alliance which secured the succession
and relations with Scotland
- Shows a
fundamental fear of
a Scottish-Spanish
alliance so trying to
appease James
- Babington Plot
- Involved Mary. Queen of Scots,
Catholic gentry Anthony
Babington, Philip and the Pope
- Was an opportunity to execute Mary
- Involved Mary. Queen of Scots,
Catholic gentry Anthony
Babington, Philip and the Pope
- Throckmorton
Plot 1583-6
- Involved Scotland, France
and Spain and English
Francis Throckmorton
- Control of Scotland would be
used as a means of invasion to
replace Elizabeth with Mary
- Showed that an
invasion from
abroad could be
easily aided from
within
- Involved Scotland, France
and Spain and English
Francis Throckmorton
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Her
- Her
- Ridolfi Plot in 1571
- Spanish threats
- French relations
- Relation with the Pope
- Excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570
- Pope was involved in Babington Plot
- Excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570
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