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Even before her accession to the English throne Elizabeth was expected to marry and had no shortage of suitors. Once queen her prospective marriage became a matter of national importance and parliamentary debate because it was inseparable from the questions of who would succeed her on the throne...
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The sixth of our articles for Parliament Week, 2012. Dr Paul Seaward discusses parliament's attempts to persuade their monarch, Elizabeth I, that Mary, Queen of Scots, should be executed for treason in 1586.
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By the mid-sixteenth century it was customary that at the opening of Parliament Speakers would request confirmation of the ‘ancient liberties’ of the Commons, namely freedom of speech and ‘privilege’ from arrest during sessions. From the beginning of her reign Elizabeth tried to reserve...
