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QUEEN ELIZABETH
AND T H E MAKING OF POLICY,
1572-1588
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To My Wife
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION 3
3
INTRODUCTION
general history of England during these decades; it is limited
to a study of selected themes.
What is dealt with is a range of problems which rose to the
surface of events in the 1570's with alarming suddenness and
forced themselves upon the reluctant attention of England's
rulers. In the next decade the ever more intense pressure of
events drove the government willy-nilly to the making of im-
portant and, for the most part, irreversible decisions. What the
outcome of these decisions would be was still veiled in the
mists of the future at the end of the 1580's, but the fork in the
road had been taken in each case and there was no turning
back. In another volume I hope to explore the working out
of these decisions through the remaining years of Elizabeth's
reign.
What were these problems? One can make a rough-and-
ready division between those which were set in motion by
actions outside the realm and those which took their rise from
impulses of domestic origin. Hence the first two of the book's
three parts deal respectively with domestic problems and for-
eign relations. Such a division, while artificial, is, I think, use-
ful. The section on domestic affairs is devoted to the central
problem of religious dissidence, both Protestant and Catholic.
The pace of events is irregular, marked by intervals of inac-
tivity punctuated by sudden, often unpredictable, bursts of
activity. Hence the organization of these chapters, while rough-
ly chronological, makes no effort to recapitulate the whole se-
quence of events. Foreign affairs, on the other hand, offer a
very crowded canvas. Events move at a rapid pace, crowding
upon one another in bewildering complexity. Here I have un-
dertaken to provide a fuller, although by no means exhaustive,
narrative of England's external relations—with the continen-
tal monarchies and Scotland. The last, briefer, section is
straightforwardly analytic in character and deals with the two
foci of decision-making—the court and Parliament.
All of these problems have of course been explored by ear-
lier historians of the Elizabethan epoch. The structure of this
book very much reflects the work of my predecessors. In the
chapters on religious dissent I have relied very heavily on re-
4
INTRODUCTION
cent work, particularly the magisterial study of Puritanism
contained in Patrick Collinson's The Elizabethan Puritan
Movement and on other studies, published and unpublished,
including those of William P. Haugaard, Francis X. Walker,
and Thomas H. Clancy.1 The most important recent general
study of Tudor foreign policy is that of R. B. Wernham; 2 its
scale enforces a relatively brief treatment of the two decades
dealt with in this book. Charles Wilson's Queen Elizabeth and
the Revolt of the Netherlands3 focusses on a particular theme.
The older studies of Conyers Read, his two massive biogra-
phies of Walsingham and Burghley,4 necessarily have a bio-
graphical form. Hence I have thought it best to go back to the
sources in the Public Record Office and the British Library
since the scale and the intent of this study is quite different
from any of those mentioned above. The study of Parliament
in Part III necessarily depends on the exhaustive studies of
J. E. Neale,5 but I have sought to go back to the manuscript
sources for the more important and detailed episodes dealt
with in this book.
5
INTRODUCTION
severed the immemorial link with Rome and had then pro-
ceeded to restructure radically the national religious life. The
consequences—the implications—of these mighty acts began to
surface only in the next generation, that of Elizabeth and her
councillors. It was they who had to deal with the awkward
and unforeseen problems which now emerged. How was a
national church built on the principles enunciated by Thomas
Cromwell and his Edwardian successors to be infused with
the life of a vital social organism ? How was England to live
in an international community split, not merely by the rival-
ries of dynasties, but by the far more venomous enmities en-
gendered by ideological division?
What strikes the historical observer is the compelling novel-
ty of these problems. Religious dissidence within the frame-
work of an Erastian state was a different matter from heresy
in the matrix of medieval Catholicism. And foreign enemies
who were not merely fellow combatants in the same European
tourney but the protagonists of a perverse and abhorrent creed,
with whom coexistence seemed impossible, also posed difficul-
ties which could not be dealt with by the simple application of
past experience or the formulae of received wisdom. English
leaders would have to grope their way cautiously and fear-
fully along a dark and unmarked path.
Quite obviously all these phenomena are bound up with the
nature and functioning of the royal government itself. The
post-Reformation English monarchy labored under new bur-
dens to which it had to make painful adaptation. Most of this
book is taken up with a close examination of the way in
which these challenges were met. It is not a tidy history; the
very novelty of the situation begot all kinds of confusions and
uncertainties. Past experience often clouded rather than il-
luminated the present. And the very reluctance of the princi-
pal actors to make painful decisions delayed action and hin-
dered solutions.
IN ENGLAND the years between 1529 and 1553 had been a time
when the nation's leaders had quite deliberately broken with
the past by rupturing the ancient ecclesiastical polity of the
6
INTRODUCTION
realm—in the first instance by ripping apart the constitutional
and legal fabric and then later by introducing radical doctri-
nal and liturgical innovation. In part this had been a response
to deep-rooted impulses for religious and moral reform which
had been fermenting, especially among the clergy, since early
in the century, but the actual shaping of events, once the
Crown began to act, was dictated by many other considera-
tions as well, less idealistic in character. Henry's restless and
ever-widening ambitions could be realized only by exploiting
the profound anti-clericalism of the English ruling classes.
Some of it was quite primitive greed for clerical possessions;
some equally primitive jealousy of clerical privilege; a third
and more sophisticated element was a revolutionary rejection
of the clergy's domination in the whole realm of value. The
earliest stage of the revolution was skillfully managed by
Thomas Cromwell, who orchestrated cooperation among the
monarchy, the lay aristocracy, and the clerical reformers. In
its later untidier stages a loose alliance between the "regents"
Somerset and Northumberland and the religious leaders was
linked to a glorious plundering of church (and Crown) land
by piratical aristocrats. When the death of the boy-king in
1553 halted this process, the work of destruction was largely
complete, but the necessary tasks of reconstructing the Church
and of ordering its relations with the new Supreme Head were
far from finished. For five years the clock was turned back-
ward under a monarch of the most conservative bent, but the
reversal of direction was as short-lived as the reign of Queen
Mary. The arrival on the throne of a Protestant princess (a
certain sign of Divine intervention in reformers' eyes) gave
them a second chance; the rapid consolidation of their power
and the demoralization of organized Catholicism, ecclesiastical
or political, was a central theme of the first decade of the new
reign.
The final triumph of the Protestant party gave the realm a
breathing space. Elizabeth herself ensured that this would be
more than a mere interlude between bouts of innovation by
firmly braking the engines of state. She had committed her-
self unequivocally to a reformed regime but she was deter-
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INTRODUCTION
mined that its final shape should be that so hastily molded at
the opening of her reign; there were to be no more acts in the
drama of reformation. The ensuing struggle between a strong-
willed conservative monarch and an equally determined body
of single-minded evangelicals, pressing on to that perfect res-
toration of the primitive church, blueprinted in the pages of
the New Testament, was to be a long and bitter one.
The Puritan controversialists re-awakened ancient disputes
within the Christian Church, which had slumbered since the
high Middle Ages, as to the rival claims to supreme authority
of the secular and the spiritual powers. In the context of the
Reformation they took on new and confusing shapes. The re-
formers had rejected the old Petrine myth with its far-reaching
implications and in its stead set up the claim of the Scriptures
in toto as the touchstone of final authority. So far so good—but
they now were brought face to face with the problem of flesh-
ing out the doctrine of the Book in acceptable institutional
forms. In the earlier stages of the English Reformation its
clerical leaders had accepted and indeed expounded the claims
of the King to a wide authority over the Church. But there
had not been an agreed definition of the functions or the
bounds of that authority. The specific questions raised by the
Elizabethan critics—and, more particularly, their formulation
of what they believed to be Scriptural injunctions as to the
right government of the Church—forced the English govern-
ment and the leaders of the established Church to contend
with their critics on the most fundamental and delicate ques-
tions. In the longer run some considered answer had to be
given to the comprehensive presbyterian schema for ecclesiasti-
cal organization; this would require intellectual efforts of high-
level quality and a careful re-thinking of the whole theory of
right social order. More immediately the authorities civil and
ecclesiastical had to deal with disobedience in the ranks—with
the uncomfortable social (and political) fact of dissent from
the order of public worship established by law.
But the Puritan leaders were not the only authors of reli-
gious nonconformity in the country. From the very beginning
of the reign there had been a body of unreconciled Catholic
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