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Elizabeth and reinstated
It was reinstated by Mary's Protestant half-sister, Elizabeth I, when she ascended the throne.
The Oath of Supremacy was originally imposed by King Henry VIII of England through the Act of Supremacy 1534, but repealed by his daughter, Queen Mary I of England and reinstated under Mary's sister, Queen Elizabeth I of England under the Act of Supremacy 1559.
Having promoted his niece Elizabeth as a favourite mistress of Peter III, he naturally greatly disliked his wife Catherine, and at first refused to serve under her, though she reinstated him in the dignity of chancellor.
The tradition of the castle forming part of the queen's property was then reinstated and it was granted to Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV.

Elizabeth and Protestant
Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen Elizabeth I of England established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ordered that the Catholic St. Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals be converted to Protestant.
In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.
Elizabeth therefore sought a Protestant solution that would not offend Catholics too greatly while addressing the desires of English Protestants ; she would not tolerate the more radical Puritans though, who were pushing for far-reaching reforms.
Elizabeth was persuaded to send a force into Scotland to aid the Protestant rebels, and though the campaign was inept, the resulting Treaty of Edinburgh of July 1560 removed the French threat in the north.
When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.
After the occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562 – 1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585, when she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II.
The defeat of the armada was a potent propaganda victory, both for Elizabeth and for Protestant England.
When the Protestant Henry IV inherited the French throne in 1589, Elizabeth sent him military support.
Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age.
The picture of Elizabeth painted by her Protestant admirers of the early 17th century has proved lasting and influential.
In 1594 a vacancy for a lutenist came up at the English court, but Dowland's application was unsuccessful-he claimed his religion led to his not being offered a post at Elizabeth I's Protestant court.
At age 37, Mary turned her attention to finding a husband and producing an heir, thus preventing the Protestant Elizabeth ( still her successor under the terms of Henry VIII's will and the Act of Succession of 1544 ) from succeeding to the throne.
He had a good relationship with his sister Elizabeth, who was a Protestant, albeit a moderate one, but this was strained when Elizabeth was accused of having an affair with the Duke of Somerset's brother, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the husband of Henry's last wife Catherine Parr.
Popular discontent grew ; a Protestant courtier, Thomas Wyatt the younger led a rebellion against Mary, with the aim of deposing and replacing her with her half-sister Elizabeth.
Elizabeth was a moderate Protestant ; she was the daughter of Anne Boleyn, who played a key role in the English Reformation in the 1520s.
Following the Coronation, two important Acts were passed through parliament: the Act of Uniformity and the Act of Supremacy, establishing the Protestant Church of England and creating Elizabeth Supreme Governor of the Church of England ( Supreme Head, the title used by her father and brother, was seen as inappropriate for a woman ruler ).
Despite Elizabeth's government constantly begging her to marry in the early years of her reign, it was now persuading Elizabeth not to marry the French prince for his mother, Catherine de ' Medici, was suspected of ordering the St Bartholomew's Day massacre of tens of thousands of French Protestant Huguenots in 1572.
Having been vilified in the media for her support of free love, Woodhull devoted an issue of Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly ( November 2, 1872 ) to an alleged adulterous affair between Elizabeth Tilton and Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent Protestant minister in New York ( he supported female suffrage but had lectured against free love in his sermons ).
Queen Elizabeth ( 1558 – 1603 ) was a moderate Protestant who eschewed the more extreme forms of Puritanism and retained a fondness for elaborate ritual, besides being a music lover and keyboard player herself.

Elizabeth and English
* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )
Puttenham, in the time of Elizabeth I of England, wished to start from Elissabet Anglorum Regina ( Elizabeth Queen of the English ), to obtain Multa regnabis ense gloria ( By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown ); he explains carefully that H is " a note of aspiration only and no letter ", and that Z in Greek or Hebrew is a mere SS.
* 1950 – Anne, Princess Royal, English daughter of Elizabeth II
* 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun ( b. 1506 )
During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.
* 1900 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( d. 1984 )
Translations into the vernacular were done by famous notables, including King Alfred ( Old English ), Jean de Meun ( Old French ), Geoffrey Chaucer ( Middle English ), Queen Elizabeth I ( Early Modern English ), and Notker Labeo ( Old High German ).
Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).
He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.
* 1717 – Elizabeth Carter, English writer ( d. 1806 )
* 1917 – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician ( b. 1836 )
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD ( 9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917 ), was an English physician and feminist, the first Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain, the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman M. D.
By the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian.
By the end of her life Elizabeth was also reputed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to English.
In 1581, to convert English subjects to Catholicism with " the intent " to withdraw them from their allegiance to Elizabeth was made a treasonable offence, carrying the death penalty.
Elizabeth established an English church that helped shape a national identity and remains in place today.
Priding herself on being " mere English ", Elizabeth trusted in God, honest advice, and the love of her subjects for the success of her rule.
The extensive list to discredit Oxford included atheism, lying, heresy, disobedience to the crown, treason, murder for hire, sexual perversion and pederasty with his English and Italian servants (' buggering a boy that is his cook and many other boys '), habitual drunkenness, vowing to murder various courtiers and declaring that Elizabeth had a bad singing voice.
In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

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