Elizabeth I
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Elizabeth · Queen Elizabeth · 27 Elizabeth · Queen Elizabeth of famous memory · the Queen
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Tudor queen whose reign and use of royal prerogative, including Impositions, set precedents invoked in the constitutional disputes of James I and Charles I.
To enter into these matters in detail would be to write the religious history of the England of the sixteenth century, and it is enough to say that at the end of Elizabeth’s reign, whilst the Queen had succeeded in maintaining Episcopacy and to a great extent the use of the Common Prayer Book as it had been settled soon after her accession, the doctrine taught and accepted by the vast majority of …
It is true that Elizabeth exercised her powers with extreme sagacity and moderation, and that the nation, confident in her leadership, had not been ready to take offence;
In the main, however, the spiritual force which bore Elizabeth to triumph was religious zeal, or at least zeal which was permeated by the influence of religion.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Queen of England under whom a jury qualification statute was enacted.
In 1585 it was enacted, “That in all cases where any jurors to be returned for trial of any issue or issues joined in any of the Queen’s majesty’s courts of King’s Bench, Common Pleas, and the Exchequer, or before justices of assize, by the laws of this realm now in force, ought to have estate of freehold in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the clear yearly value of forty shillings, that in …
The Genius of the Common Law
Sixteenth-century queen in whose reign the conflict between the Chancellor's equity and the common-law courts is said to have taken place.
We may doubt whether the conflict that took place in the days of Elizabeth and James I was at all reasonably necessary;