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Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his sisters out of the succession. His will was set aside, and in 1558 Elizabeth succeeded the Catholic Mary I, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. (Source.)
Queen Elizabeth established her own religion in England, declaring herself its head. Fines were inflicted upon those who did not attend her services, and severe measures were taken to supress the Catholic Church. Harboring a Catholic priest was punishable by death; a priest ordained oversees was condemmed as a traitor. St. Edmund Campion is a well-known example of one of these. (For more information on a Catholic perspective of this time period, read the autibiography of Father Gerard, "During the Persecution")

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Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Born 7 September 1533
Died 24 March 1603

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for horsemen and breed of horses for seruice

    First published in 1580 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for keeping of the peace in London: The Queenes Maiestie commandeth all manner her subiects of what degree soeuer they bee [...]

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for keeping the terme at Hartford Castle, and for adiournement of the same fron Mense Michaelis, vntill Crastino Animarum

    First published in 1592 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for reforming of the deceipts in diminishing the value of the coines of gold currant within the Queenes Maiesties dominions, and for remedying the losses that might growe by receiuing thereof being diminished

    First published in 1587 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for reuocation of students from beyond the seas, and against the reteining of Iesuites

    First published in 1581 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for suppressing of the multitude of idle vagabonds, and auoyding of certaine mischieuous dangerous persons from her Maiesties court

    First published in 1594 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the clothiers of Suffoke, Norffolke, and Essex

    First published in 1601 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the dearth of corne

    First published in 1596 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the due obseruation of fish dayes, suppressing of vnneccessary number of alehouses, and for the better execution of the late acte for punishment of rogues, vagabonds and beggers

    First published in 1600 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation for the execution of the lawes made agaynst vnlawfull reteynors, &c.

    First published in 1572 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Anno primo Reginæ Elizabethe: At the parliament begonne at Westmynster, the xxiii. of January in the fyrste yeare of the reigne of oure Soueraigne Ladye, Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, Fraunce and Ireland, Quene, defendoure of the faithe, [et]c. And there proroged tyll the. xxv. of the same moneth, and then and there holden, kept, and continued vntill the dissolution of the same, beyng the eyght day of May, then nexte ensuynge, were enacted as foloweth

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  • Cover of: Articles to be enquired of in the visitatio[n], in the first yeere of the raign of our most dread soueraign ladie Elizabeth by the grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland Queene, defender of the faith, &c.: Anno Dom. 1559.

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  • Cover of: Be it knowne vnto all deuote and faythful people that there hath byne and is erectede foure hosspitals in and aboute the cytie of London ...

    First published in 1560 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A booke containing all such proclamations as were published during the raigne of the late Queene Elizabeth

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A declaration of great troubles pretended against the realme by a number of seminarie priests and Iesuits, sent, and very secretly dispersed in the same, to worke great treasons vnder a false pretence of religion, with a prouision very necessary for remedy thereof: Published by this her Maiesties proclamation.

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A declaration of the iust, honourable, and necessarie causes, that moue the Queenes Maiestie to leuie and sende an armie to the borders of Scotland, with an assuraunce of her intention, to continue the peace with the crowne, and quiet subiectes of the sayde Realme of Scotlande

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. Although her Maiestie hath had so good proofe of Gods singular goodnes, in the continual preseruation of her from his first setting of her in the Crowne ...

    First published in 1579 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. An exemplication of her Maiesties letters patent, concerning her highnesse towne and port of Hasting, in the Countie of Sussex

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation against all persons, that disorderly enter into shippes that are brought as prizes into any hauen: and that doe secretly buy or conuey away the goods before they be customed, and allowed s lawfull prize.

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Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603

Born 7 September 1533
Died 24 March 1603

Subjects

Early works to 1800, Proclamations, History, Plague, Law and legislation, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Church of England, Terms of court, Sources, Ecclesiastical law, Government, Prices, Pirates, Prohibited books, Sedition, Commerce, Grain trade, Jesuits, Rogues and vagabonds, Soldiers, England and Wales, Finance, Harbors, Maintenance and repair

Places

England, Great Britain, London, Netherlands, Spain, Scotland, France, Engalnd, Hastings (England), Ireland, Bath (England), Bordeaux, Bordelais, Cornwall (England : County), Devon (England), Early works to 1800, England) Lyme Regis (Dorset, England) St. Ives (Cornwall, Europe, Hansa towns, London (England), Lyme Regis (Dorset, England), Lyme Regis (England), Norfolk, Poland

People

Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Elizabeth Queen of England (b.1533), Gregory Pormorte, H. F. Evans, Henry Sidney Sir, Henry Sidney Sir (1529-1586), James I King of England (1566-1625), John Stubbes (1543-1591), Leonard Dacre (d. 1573), Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), Philip II King of Spain (1527-1598), Thomas Cobham, Thomas Percy Northumberland 7th Earl of (1528-1572), Walter Raleigh Sir (1552?-1618)

Time

Elizabeth, 1558-1603, 1558-1603, 16th century, 17th century, 1485-1603, 1556-1598, James VI, 1567-1625, Tudors, 1485-1603, 1642-1649, Charles IX, 1560-1574, Elective monarchy, 1572-1763, Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, Elizabrth, 1558-1603, HenryIV, 1589-1610, Mary Stuart, 1542-1567, Philip II, 1556-1598, Rebellion of 1569, Sigismund II Augustus, 1548-1572

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Alternative names

  • The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Queen Elizabeth I
  • Elizabeth I Queen of England
  • England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I).
  • Elizabeth I
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • Elizabeth 1 Queen of England
  • Elizabeth Queen of England
  • Elizabeth 1, Queen of England
  • Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
  • Queen of England 1533-1603 Elizabeth I
  • Queen of England 1533-1 Elizabeth I

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