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To enforce her religious policies, Queen Elizabeth needed bishops willing to cooperate. Seven bishops, including Cardinal Pole, Mary's Archbishop of Canterbury, died in 1558 and needed to be replaced. The remaining bishops were all Catholics appointed during Mary's reign, and Elizabeth's advisers hoped they could be persuaded to continue serving.
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG, PC (24 June 1532 [note 1] – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death.
In 1585, he published his The True Difference Betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth. [14] (A pirated edition appeared in London in the following year. [15]) This work took aim at the Jesuits and replied to Cardinal William Allen's Defence of the English Catholics (Ingoldstadt, 1584). [16]
The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, [note 1] also called the Elizabethan prayer book, is the third edition of the Book of Common Prayer and the text that served as an official liturgical book of the Church of England throughout the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I became Queen of England in 1558 following the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I.
The Queen and Her Attendants The Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Osbert Vesey CMG CBE (1884–1957) The Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Right Reverend Harold William Bradfield (1898–1960) Her Majesty The Queen in Her Royal Robe of crimson Velvet, trimmed with Ermine and bordered with Gold Lace
In this edition, Queen Elizabeth I is flanked by allegorical virtues of Faith and Charity; Elizabeth therefore represents Hope. Beneath the portrait is a Latin text from Romans 1:16. The bishops deputed to revise the Apocrypha appear to have delivered very little, as the text in these books broadly reproduces that of the Great Bible.
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[4] More recently, William Jones contends that the bishops' primary concern was the satirists' harsh, Juvenalian approach to social commentary. [5] An alternative theory on the event supposes that Archbishop Whitgift engineered the ban specifically to protect his friend the Robert Devereux, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, from political ...