conflicting views of Elizabethan Parliament
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 09-05-15 20:42
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- Elizabethan Parliament - Historical theories
- Orthodox
- Elizabeth sees Parliament as a forum which she can use to maintain contact with loyal subjects
- verbatim accounts of speeches
- memoirs of mps
- weak institution dominated by powerful monarchs
- John Foxe and Edward Camden: protestant heroine strongly supported by protestant house of commons
- Elizabeth sees Parliament as a forum which she can use to maintain contact with loyal subjects
- Neale
- "New Orthodoxy"
- Elizabeth is unwilling to call Parliament -> doesn't like opposition
- 12/13 times = subsidy
- eager to make sessions short
- Longest session = 5 months
- said this at the beginning of Parls. opening
- Puritan choir of 46 (out of 462...) members
- focus on reforming churches
- unable to change within because of bishops
- force queen to accept changes -> When did this work?
- growing number of gentry sitting for borough seats
- focus on reforming churches
- political skills
- use subsidy as a bargaining tool...
- in 1567 try to delay subsidy - Elizabeth remits 1/3
- use subsidy as a bargaining tool...
- Increased confidence meant more willing to challenge Q's authority
- HoLs ignored and dismissed because assumed its decline
- Importance of lesser men on a great scale
- Revisionist
- more moderate -> No evidence E ever thought about not having Parliament
- short session doesn't = just for money (money introduced late)
- Norman Jones: Marian Exiles where neither numerous/organised enough to act influence parls
- Geoffrey Elton: Parliament evidenced cooperation
- Elton:power lay with King in parliament - she was heart of political system
- Graves : Parliament was swamped with imnumeral private bills
- focus on what was achieved
- Big difference came from refocusing how looked at Parliament - Elton primarily looked at function
- more moderate -> No evidence E ever thought about not having Parliament
- Post Revisionist
- inconvenient necessity
- E = likes maintaining traditions
- brought up to believe needed community of interest between governors and governed
- no reason not to believe genuinely wanted to help subjects.
- Led by John Guy and Patrick Collinson
- Opposition = Privy Council - when E ignored/refused advice persuaded her to call Parliament
- Individual influence to summon support.
- Cecil (Burghley) and Leciester
- Edward Norton (believed to be a member of Puritan Choir) was Cecil's 'man of business' in HoCs
- Cecil (Burghley) and Leciester
- Individual influence to summon support.
- inconvenient necessity
- Sir Thomas Smith: "The most high and absolute power in the realm consistent in the Parliament"
- Obey "godly" prince or resist "ungodly prince" ?
- Orthodox
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