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Discontent and pressure for change was mounting on both sides of the Elizabethan...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1571">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-2"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1572"><h3>1572</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Elizabeth hated summoning Parliaments and the decision to do so barely a year after the dissolution of the last assembly was forced upon her by the Privy Council in order to deal with the aftermath of the Ridolfi plot, a Catholic conspiracy to put Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne....</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1572">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-2"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1584"><h3>1584</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content"> This Parliament, like the 1572 Parliament, was summoned following the discovery of a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. Spanish agents were implicated in the Throckmorton plot, and the ensuing diplomatic rift was...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1584">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-3 col-last"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1586"><h3>1586</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Elizabeth refused to attend the state opening of her sixth Parliament, summoned as it was with the sole purpose of condemning her cousin Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, who had been a prisoner in England since 1568. The 1584-5 Parliament stood prorogued when the Babington plot to assassinate...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1586">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-3"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1589"><h3>1589</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Elizabeth delayed the opening of this Parliament that had originally been summoned in the autumn of 1588 in response to the defeat of the Spanish Armada for as long as she could afford to, knowing that the Commons would be eager to broach two topics, religious debates and foreign policy, that she...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1589">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-2"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1593"><h3>1593</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">At the state opening on 19 Feb. 1593 the Lord Keeper Sir John Puckering stressed the ‘weightie and urgent causes of this present tyme’, principally the ongoing threat of Spanish invasion, and the queen’s ‘extraordinarye and most excessive expenses’ as the reasons for summoning this...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1593">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-3 col-last"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1597"><h3>1597</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Much had changed in the interval following the 1593 Parliament. Four successive bad harvests had plunged England into a crisis of dearth and spiralling inflation; by August 1597 the price of flour had tripled. Rebellion broke out in Ireland in 1594 led by Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, whose...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1597">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> </tr> <tr class="row-4 row-last"> <td class="col-1 col-first"> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1601"><h3>1601</h3></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-phpcode"> <span class="field-content">Monopolies, a grievance that had previously been raised in 1571 and 1597-8, became a major talking point in Elizabeth’s final Parliament. The queen’s failure to fulfil her promise to expose all patents to the ‘tryall and true touchstone of the lawe’ produced a more cogent attack upon...</span> </div> <span class="views-field-view-node"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1601">Read more</a></span> </span> </td> <td class="col-2"> </td> <td class="col-3 col-last"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div> <div id="footer-gradient"> </div> <div id="footer"><div id="copyright"> © Crown copyright and The History of Parliament Trust 1964-2020 </div> <div id="footer-links"> <ul> <li><a href="/about/terms-and-conditions" title="Terms & Conditions">Terms & Conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/help/privacy-and-cookies">Privacy & Cookies</a></li> <li><a href="/about/faqs">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="/commonly-used-abbreviations" title="Abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="mailto:website@histparl.ac.uk">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> </div></div> <div id="ihr-logo"><a href="http://www.history.ac.uk" target="_blank"><img src="/files/IHR-maintained-logo.png" alt="IHR Logo" /></a></div> </div> </body> </html>

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