AQA A2 HISTORY: The Triumph of Elizabeth, 1547-1603 Offical Thread. 2nd June 2014.

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Can someone give me some examples on times Elizabeth's ministers disobeyed her? I can only think of MQS execution in 1587

In the 90s she made Essex Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to help crush the rebellion but he didn't stay in the North like she ordered,and got a truce with Tyrone despite Elizabeth asking him to confront him, enabling Tyrone to go to Cork and try and link up with Spain when the truce expired. He then returned to court in Sept 1599 (I think) without her permission.
She dealt with it by suspending him and charging him with treason, refusing to renew his monopoly, which helped cause the Essex rebellion in 1601

I hope this helps a bit, I can't think of any other examples except MQS!

-The House of Commons pressing the issue of succession/marriage in 1563/1566 .The privy council effectively controlled parliament so they were infringing upon and disobeying her royal prerogative.
-Leicester took the title "governor general" in the Netherlands in 1586 despite Elizabeth instructing him not to do so
-Essex disobeyed Elizabeth's strategic order to prevent a Spanish attack on Ireland in 1597 and instead attempted to raid the Azores
-Essex made a truce with the Earl of Tyrone in 1599, disobeying Elizabeth's order to confront him.
Those are the only ones I can think of

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Puritanism and especially Presbyterianism started dying out didn't it? The leading puritan sympathisers at court such as Walsingham and Leicester started dying out, and the religious predicament/unity by the end of her reign shows clearly that Puritanism's growing influence had long passed. Like god knows how many years past!

Growing influence? WTH, those years experienced a decline in their influence!

Hey, I've found a possible answer for my original question:
We are right in that the majority of historians see Puritans as dying out by 1590s - but after Elizabeth's death, puritanism started to rise again and became a problem under James I and Charles I. So there's a debate as to whether Elizabeth actually had a long-term achievement with stopping Puritans, or if it was a temporary stoppage which made them simply go underground and rise again later.
And there's a quote by Hurstfield if you ever mention this in an essay: "she damped down the fires of opposition - and left them smouldering for her successors"

Just thought I'd note this in case anyone's still wondering, I think this is the closest thing that AQA could have meant to the 'growing influence of Puritanism'!

Ah thank you. I knew that it re-emerged, especially Presbyterianism, but I didn't see it as significant in this syllabus. It may be worth mentioning.