Furthermore, Elizabeth had her arrested. After 19 years in custody, Mary was tried and executed for treason for her involvement in three plots to assassinate Elizabeth, and probably also because she was a Catholic. I think Elizabeth did well as a queen to do the right thing and execute her as she could have been killed. However, I personally think she did not have enough evidence to kill her off. The protestant people would have thought Elizabeth did well as she had got rid of the main focus when it came to the Catholic plot and it was good that Elizabeth had the courage to deal with this problem despite the fact that Mary Queen of Scots was actually her cousin.
I think Elizabeth was a very successful Queen, but on the other hand she did cause disagreement and executed lots of Catholic e.c.t. Elizabeth could be as ruthless and calculating as any King before her. One of the problems Elizabeth faced was religion and I think she managed it well I think this because she made all of the churches a mixture. Elizabeth was a Protestant and her mother was a Protestant so I would thought that she would of made all the churches, Protestant, but she was good queen and managed the religion well. She kept the Monarch as the Governor of the church not the Pope which is Protestant, I believe this is a good idea because the Protestants will still think she is a true Protestant and she will be popular with them.
During Mary’s reign, she killed a number of Protestants as a result of them resisting her Catholic rule. Her motives to persecute Protestants were a combination of political, personal and religious reasons. Mary’s fundamental reasons for persecuting Protestants were religious. She was a devout Roman Catholic raised by her Catholic mother Catherine of Aragon, however, as she grew up, England and Wales were undergoing a Protestant reformation. Mary believed that it was her duty to restore the true faith and the true Church.
Woman who before could never have children now had the chance to conceive their very own child. It was a dream come true for many women around the world, but, almost instantaneously, the Catholic Church responded with the condemnation of any fertilization outside the human body. Even as the science of in vitro fertilization has advanced and more and more research has been done on it, the Catholic Church has remained in firm opposition. This has caused confusion and anger in many women as they have many questions toward the church and why it forbids the opportunity for happiness. Despite being very appealing to many women, there are many repercussions associated with reproductive technologies.
But as Mary was very strict and punctual catholic; she had the duty of transferring England into a Roman Catholic country, as England was left protestant by Lady Jane Grey. But this job came with its struggles, as Mary tried to accomplish this, which will be pointed out in this essay. Mary took on much advantage, trying to transfer England back to a Catholic country, which improved her. Hence by her nickname ‘Bloody Mary’. Mary was called this for a reason, as Mary ascertained that all Protestants of England who declined to become a Catholic were killed.
This was seen as very bad news for the Catholics. Since the RUC always stuck with its traditional pro-unionist role, the police force was feared and hated by the Catholic people. This of course, angered many Catholics as they felt that they could not rely on such a corrupt service that basically hated them, but despite this, was supposed to be there to protect them. During the 1960’s, Catholic employment tended towards the lower end of the job market and they were employed mainly in unskilled and lower paying jobs such as, factory workers and clothing manufacturers. Of course, the Protestants on the other hand had relatively higher paying jobs for example, engineering and shipbuilding.
Source E was written by an extremely devoted Protestant woman who was about to be burnt as a heretic. This makes the source less reliable as she would want to portray the Catholic people who were condemning her in a bad light and she would also want to strengthen her own cause and look more devoted which may have caused her to change or exaggerate situations, for example the fact that she lay still and didn't cry while being tortured on the rack. Another similarity between the sources is that they were both given a chance to repent for their heresy. In source A it says when referring to John Forrest that ‘he obstinately refused to repent.’ In source E she is given a chance to change her opinion when asked ‘if the sacrament contains the body and blood of christ.’ However in source A it says ‘the unique case’, this decreases the sources usefulness of the treatment of all religious opponents in general as it is subjective to one special
Those who continued to counter such policies were ruthlessly and swiftly dealt with, often by execution, and used as examples to discourage others. Henry's desire for a nation free of foreign religious intervention, total sovereign independence, a yearning of church wealth and the desire for a divorce sewed the seeds for reform. The divorce case angered many people. Catherine of Aragon was a pious and popular Queen who was depicted as a devout Catholic and loyal wife. During the divorce Henry was not only faced with Papal opposition but also staunch resistance from Catherine's supporters.
This was a huge thing back then because a majority of people did not listen to what women had to say because men were high ranked and more intelligent. Stanton and her group wanted to prove to not only the men but to everyone that womens rights were completely unfair and there needed to be a change. A genius idea came to her and she decided that she would go off of the Declaration of Independence which was written about how Great Britain tried running our country and how they completely took advantage of us. Instead of stating how Britain treated us wrong, she substituted women as the United States and put men in as Great Britain. What the womens Seneca Falls Declaration stated was how women could not own property once they married and how that was completely unfair.
Powerful women were therefore often denigrated and seen as dysfunctional. Despite having three reigning monarchs during this period, Mary Stuart, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth Tudor, there was still a feeling of uneasiness among the general population at the thought of these women rulers. Mary Tudor (R. 1553-1558) Mary Tudor is chiefly remembered as a zealous Catholic, reviled for her bloody persecution of Protestants and for her attempt to bring England once again under the Roman Church. Mary gained the throne with popular support and was an able ruler, as stubborn and strong-willed as her father. Her main failure was perhaps in attempting to reform the kingdom overnight.