Henry approached government about a divorce as he claimed that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was a sin as the Leviticus states that marrying your brother’s wife will be punished by remaining childless. Henry failed to get a divorce so Wolsey promised Henry that he would be able to get him a quick and easy divorce. However this was not the case as the divorce was granted many years later and Thomas Cromwell was the one to do so. This could have led to Wolsey’s downfall as it proved to Henry that he no longer needed Wolsey as he wasn’t able to do his job. As well as trying to claim that Henry’s marriage was a sin, he tried to persuade the pope that the previous pope was wrong to marry Henry and Catherine because Catherine and Arthur had consummated their marriage.
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.
It was King Philip II that sent the Spanish armada to conquer England. Philip did this for many reasons. The first reason it that Elisabeth had made Phillip angry by refusing his marriage proposal and just by being protestant but the thing that made Philip sent the armada was that Elisabeth was funding the protestant rebellion. All of these made the one big reason for Philip to send the armada. To prepare for the armada many things had to happen.
Buckingham controlled royal patronage and openly sold noble titles (also known as peerage) to raise money for the king and was also rumored to be his homosexual lover. In 1604 James made peace with Spain, which upset the largely Puritan House of Commons in Parliament because Spain was primarily Catholic. Two decades later in 1624, England went to war with Spain as a result of pressure from Parliament. In 1625, Parliament became additionally concerned when James married his son, Charles I, to Henry IV of France’s Catholic daughter,
But that’s not the only reason religion caused the civil war, King Charles believed in the divine right. It was when the king/queen believes that god put them on the throne. So Charles took all the power because of this and Parliament didn’t want to go with his decision which contributes to the civil war. Also he made Scottish churches uses English prayer books which caused riots and England went to battle with Scotland. England lost.
England for a long time had been told to hate Catholics and when James came from Scotland and became king he decided to marry Henrietta Maria, a Catholic, the people became unhappy because they did not know if their heir would be Protestant or Catholic. In 1625 England became involved in expensive foreign wars - with the Austrian Empire then in 1627 a war against France. This meant that Charles was very short of money and so he forced rich people to lend it to him. In 1628 Charles asked Parliament to let him raise custom duties on wines and many other goods. The MPs were not happy with the forced loans and foreign wars so they presented Charles with the Petition of Rights which was just parliament saying that Charles cannot raise custom duties without parliaments permission.
One of this war's causes was the nearly tacit public opinion, as well as the Parliament's, that they should support the Protestants due to Elizabeth (James's daughter) and Frederick - both involved in the war. The people and monarchy started to disagree, resulting into a loss of balance in the whole land. Catholics also earned themselves a bad image due to the gunpowder plot, once again creating a scarce relationship between them and the Protestants. However, it's common logic that the situation would be conflictual, as two forms of Christianity were impossible to coexist. As it was nearly impossible for James to neglect the conflicts, he attempted to marry his son Henry to a Spanish princess (dynastic marriage), the scope being to bring Protestants and Catholics at peace.
Essex wanted to be the most important minister in Elizabeth’s court and the only obstacles in his way were William Cecil and his son Robert. The rivalry between Essex and the Cecils dominated the Privy Council meetings and in result, Essex would start to lose his temper when he would not get his way. In 1598 Essex asked Elizabeth to appoint one of his supporters as Deputy of Ireland and she refused. Essex lost his temper with Elizabeth and declared that her ‘conditions are as crooked as her carcass’ before turning his back on her. Elizabeth in response punched him on the ear, which caused Essex to grasp his sword.
The colonists believed that they should have separate laws from Britain because they are not directly represented in parliament. When the colonists continued to disobey the new laws, Britain enforced a harsher set of laws, known as the intolerable acts, to show the colonies that Britain was angry for the Boston Tea Party. This further angered the colonists and caused them to rethink the idea of a rebellion. The colonies as well violated the rights they were fighting for, by
Parliament were initially enthusiastic, saying to James “take your sword in your hand… direct the point of your sword at Spain”. However, due to James’ continued good relations with Spain, Parliament were reluctant to grant James the huge sums of money necessary for war, and hence voted him a mere subsidy of roughly £140,000 which was woefully inadequate for the purpose that it was intended. However Parliament had every right to be suspicious, as James had placed 2500 troops on the continent, but actually forbidden them to fight and was continuing his negotiations with Spain. James felt that the Spanish Match should be used as a tool to restore Frederick to the Palatinate, and this would allow him to avoid military intervention. The King, however, neglected to mention this to his Parliament who became understandably confused and wary due to the carelessness of James and his lack of communication.