1. Catholic Penal Laws from 1570 – 1602
Snowballing
Catholic Penal Laws from 1570 – 1602
Write as aspect of the Law or the Date it was introduced.
When you pick one up add the aspect or date – whichever is missing
You will be checking how accurate a snowball is a the end.

2. Mary Queen of Scots; friend or foe?
To understand the different plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots.
To assess how far MQS was a real threat to Elizabeth.
How had relations between England and Scotland developed?
France and the Guise
Treaty of Edinburgh
Darnley and Rizzio
Earl of Bothwell
Escape to England
Plots
Execution

3. Mary Queen of Scots; friend or foe? Northern Rebellion Ridolfi Plot
To understand the different plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots.
To assess how far MQS was a real threat to Elizabeth.
John Guy has argued that the seriousness of the plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots was much exaggerated by Burghley and Walsingham in order to try and bring about Mary’s downfall.
How far do you agree?
Create a radio news style ‘blurb’ stating:
What happened?
Reason why it WAS a threat to Elizabeth
Reason why it was NOT a threat to Elizabeth.
Northern Rebellion
In pairs create a radio news ‘blurb’ about each plot
Ridolfi Plot
Throckmorton Plot
Parry Plot
Babington Plot

4. MQS was a threat MQS was NOT a threat
Mary Queen of Scots;
friend or foe?
To understand the different plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots.
To assess how far MQS was a real threat to Elizabeth.
John Guy has argued that the seriousness of the plots surrounding Mary Queen of Scots was much exaggerated by Burghley and Walsingham in order to try and bring about Mary’s downfall.
How far do you agree?
MQS was a threat
MQS was NOT a threat
In pairs create a radio news ‘blurb’ about each plot

5. 1588-1603 What threat did Catholics pose?
* To describe and explain the work and impact of Missionary and Seminary Priests, and Jesuits.
* To begin to assess the government reaction to the M and S Priests and Jesuits.
The Jesuits continued to work for regime change in England.
1590:
To lessen the Catholic threat, Elizabeth's government also tried tactics of "divide and rule". In 1590, a dispute developed between Jesuits and other priests imprisoned at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, over who (the Jesuits or a Bishop appointed for the purpose) should control the mission to England. The quarrel soon spread throughout the English priesthood.
Richard Bancroft helped the group of priests who opposed Jesuit control (known as the Appellants) - even arranging to have their pamphlets printed.
In 1594, Parsons (under the pseudonym Doleman) published A Conference about the next succession, which argued that the people of England had the right to choose their monarch, and that on Elizabeth's death, Parliament should appoint Philip II's daughter - not the Protestant James VI. Naturally, this alienated James VI who was eager to succeed to the English throne, and who had the best claim to do so. This did not happen, nor did it receive much support in England.
In 1603, 13 leading Appellants made a Protestation, repudiating the political ideas of the Jesuits. This was a real propaganda coup for the English government.

6. What was the government doing while the Jesuits were preparing?
What threat did
Catholics pose?
* To describe and explain the work and impact of Missionary and Seminary Priests, and Jesuits.
* To begin to assess the government reaction to the M and S Priests and Jesuits.
What was the government doing while the Jesuits were preparing?
Bloody question:
What would you do if the Pope were to send over an army and declare that his only object was to bring the kingdom back to its Catholic allegiance; For whom would you fight, the Pope or the Queen?
‘The Catholics posed a true and real threat to Elizabeth throughout her reign’ How far do you agree with this statement?