Peter Lake
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198753995
- eISBN:
- 9780191815744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753995.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from ...
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This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from Scotland, of the libellous secret history, directed by the regime against Mary. Considerable attention is paid to a group of tracts by Thomas Norton, written in response to the revolt of the northern earls, in which, while ostensibly defending the Elizabethan state, Norton also made serious criticisms of the status quo, and proposed various means whereby that state might be purged of Catholics and crypto-Catholics and the regime’s true supporters amongst the godly might be discovered and rewarded; an offensive that provoked an, if not overtly Catholic, then an aggressively anti-Puritan, defence of Mary and Norfolk, with which Norton’s works are compared and contrasted.Less
This chapter analyses the public fuss generated by the arrival of Mary Stuart in England and the projected match between Mary and the duke of Norfolk. This marks the arrival in England, from Scotland, of the libellous secret history, directed by the regime against Mary. Considerable attention is paid to a group of tracts by Thomas Norton, written in response to the revolt of the northern earls, in which, while ostensibly defending the Elizabethan state, Norton also made serious criticisms of the status quo, and proposed various means whereby that state might be purged of Catholics and crypto-Catholics and the regime’s true supporters amongst the godly might be discovered and rewarded; an offensive that provoked an, if not overtly Catholic, then an aggressively anti-Puritan, defence of Mary and Norfolk, with which Norton’s works are compared and contrasted.
