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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 waightes published by the Queenes Maiesties commaundement

    First published in 1587 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation, inhibiting the execution of any exemplification of her Maiesties graunt of the penaltie of the statute for sowing of hempe and flaxe seede

    First published in 1589 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation inhibiting the sovving of vvoad

    First published in 1600 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation made agaynst seditious and trayterous bookes, billes, and vvritinges

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    First published in 1618 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation notifying the dissolution of the Parliament that was proroged vnto the xiiii day of Nouember. 1586

    First published in 1586 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation prohibiting the vse and cariage of dagges, birding pieces, and other gunnes, contrary to the law

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation publishing certaine iust causes for prohibition and stay of cariage of victual: and other prouisions of warre by seas into Spaine, for continuance of the King of Spaines purposes to inuade most uniustly her Maiesties dominions; with authoritie for the stay thereof by sea.

    First published in 1597 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation straightly commanding that no corne nor other victuall, nor any ordonance, nor furniture for shipping be caried into any of the king of Spaines countries, vpon paine to be punished as in case of treason: nor that any of the like kinds by caried out of the realme to other countries without speciall licence vpon sundry great paines.

    First published in 1591 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to adiourne part of midsommer terme

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to adiourne the terme ending for Michaelmas, vnto Westminster, to begin at Octabis Hillarij

    First published in 1593 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1592 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to admonishe all persons to forbeare traffique in the king of Spaynes countreys, with other aduertisementes for aunsweryng of a generall arrest made in the lowe countreys by the Duke of Alua

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to be published in Cornewall, Deuonshire, Dorcetshire and Hampshire, for restitution of goods lately taken on the seas from the subiects of the King of Spaine by way of reprisall

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to charge all persons that haue gotten any maner goods into their possession, which haue beene taken on the seas this last yeere, and haue not bene customed, to restore the same vpon paine to bee punished as felons and pirates

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to forbid all maner of persons to resort to any townes held by the French Kings rebels, or to traffique with any of them, vpon paine to be punished as traitors: with a declaration of the iust causes of the said prohibition. Giuen vnder her Maiesties signet at Greenwich the xiiij. day of Aprill 1591, and of her Maiesties reigne the xxxiij. yere.

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to represse all piracies and depredations vpon the sea

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  • Cover of: By the Queene. A proclamation to restraine accesse to the court, of all such as are not bound to ordinarie attendance, or that shall not be otherwise by her Maiestie

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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, Sources, Law and legislation, Plague, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Church of England, Terms of court, Prices, Queens, Correspondence, Ecclesiastical law, Government, Pirates, Jesuits, Prohibited books, Rogues and vagabonds, Sedition, Commerce, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, Grain trade, Kings and rulers, Soldiers
Places
England, Great Britain, London, Spain, Netherlands, Scotland, France, Ireland, Engalnd, Hastings (England), Bath (England), Bordeaux, Bordelais, Cornwall (England : County), Devon (England), Early works to 1800, England) Lyme Regis (Dorset, England) Redesdale (Northumberland, England) St. Ives (Cornwall, England) Tynedale (Northumberland, Europe, Hansa towns, London (England), Lyme Regis (Dorset, England), Lyme Regis (England)
People
Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), Henry Sidney Sir (1529-1586), James I King of England (1566-1625), Elizabeth Queen of England (b.1533), Gregory Pormorte, H. F. Evans, Henry Sidney Sir, 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, 1485-1603, 17th century, James VI, 1567-1625, Tudors, 1485-1603, 1556-1598, 1603-1714, 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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  • 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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May 29, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
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