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Petitioning the pope .......................................................................... 106

Stepping up the action ...................................................................... 107

Losing his patience ............................................................................ 107

Divorcing the Catholic Church......................................................... 108

Running a New Church ............................................................................... 108

Taking the lead, bit by bit ................................................................. 108

Meeting the reformers....................................................................... 109

Dissolving the monasteries .............................................................. 111

Part III: Remembering the Forgotten Tudors:

Edward VI and Mary ............................................... 115

Chapter 7: Ruling from the Nursery: Edward VI and His Protectors . . .117

Setting Up a Protectorate ........................................................................... 117

Crossing over from Henry................................................................. 117

Taking control: The duke of Somerset ............................................ 119

Battling brothers ................................................................................ 120

Returning to the Auld Alliance: Scotland and France ............................. 120

Invading Scotland .............................................................................. 120

Following up with forts ..................................................................... 121

Allying against England .................................................................... 121

Pressing on in the north.................................................................... 122

Upping the tempo with France ......................................................... 123

Facing the Many-headed Monster: Social Unrest .................................... 124

Reacting to enclosure ........................................................................ 124

Failing to defuse the situation .......................................................... 125

Kicking off with Kett .......................................................................... 125 Table of Contents xv

Ousting Somerset: Dudley Takes the Helm .............................................. 128

Somerset versus Dudley ................................................................... 128

Changing the Chamber ...................................................................... 129

Dictating with Dudley ........................................................................ 130

Chapter 8: Encouraging Protestantism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Choosing Reform: Gently Does It ............................................................... 134

Sewing the seeds ................................................................................ 134

Testing the water with new bishops ............................................... 135

Moving on: Visitations and homilies ............................................... 135

Dissolving the chantries by law ....................................................... 136

Trying to make things clear .............................................................. 136

Introducing the First Prayer Book ............................................................. 137

Changing content and language ....................................................... 137

Making enemies.................................................................................. 138

Taking in the refugees ....................................................................... 140

Continuing with Cranmer, hoping with Hooper ............................. 141

Getting Radical: Moving on with the Second Prayer Book ..................... 142

Picking apart the revised prayer book: Noxious Knox ................. 143

Defining faith ...................................................................................... 143

Reforming zeal and dodgy dealings ................................................. 144

Managing Mary............................................................................................. 145

Plotting her escape ............................................................................ 146

Coming to Court ................................................................................. 146

Chapter 9: Changing with the Times: Edward, John, Jane and Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149

Taking Over: Dudley Rules OK ................................................................... 149

Getting personal ................................................................................. 150

Getting promotion: Warwick on the way up................................... 151

Sitting on the diplomatic fence ........................................................ 153

Facing down the French .................................................................... 154

Priming a Prince........................................................................................... 155

Growing up ......................................................................................... 156

Going before his time ........................................................................ 156

Making last-minute changes ............................................................. 157

Passing on in a terrible storm .......................................................... 158

Reigning for Nine Days: Jane Grey............................................................. 158

Manoeuvring with Mary .................................................................... 158

Defending Jane?.................................................................................. 159

Making Up With Mary.................................................................................. 159

Checking out her team ...................................................................... 160

Stepping into power .......................................................................... 160

Marrying Mary .................................................................................... 162 xvi The Tudors For Dummies

Chapter 10: Returning to the Old Faith: Mary I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167

Reviving the Old Faith ................................................................................. 167

Making changes .................................................................................. 168

Getting Parliament on side ............................................................... 169

Furthering the faith............................................................................ 170

Beginning the burning ....................................................................... 172

Punishing the people ......................................................................... 175

Looking on the good side.................................................................. 175

Planting Rebellion in Ireland ...................................................................... 176

Securing Succession .................................................................................... 177

Settling into the role of king ............................................................. 177

Expecting great things....................................................................... 178

Waiting for nothing ............................................................................ 179

Drifting and Shifting: Philip Flexes His Muscles ...................................... 180

Eyeing the crown ............................................................................... 180

Double dealing with Dudley.............................................................. 181

Taking a turn for the worse .............................................................. 182

Squabbling with the pope ................................................................. 182

Trying to drag England into a war ................................................... 183

Chapter 11: Ending the Dream: The Last of Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185

Going to War with France ........................................................................... 185

Revolting with Stafford...................................................................... 185

Fighting the French � again! .............................................................. 186

Warring in winter: the fall of Calais ................................................. 187

Following the fall ............................................................................... 187

Feeling the fallout .............................................................................. 188

Getting the jitters ............................................................................... 189

Catching a Cold: The Flu Epidemic ........................................................... 189

Defending the Faith ..................................................................................... 190

Encountering Elizabeth ............................................................................... 191

Locking up a rival............................................................................... 191

Searching for a suitable suitor ......................................................... 192

Naming Elizabeth as successor ........................................................ 193

Preparing for power .......................................................................... 194

Claiming the Crown ..................................................................................... 195

Part IV: Ending with Elizabeth .................................. 197

Chapter 12: Dancing with Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199

Clearing Out the Court ................................................................................ 199

Purging the Privy Chamber .............................................................. 200

Choosing the Council ........................................................................ 200

Marrying the Job.......................................................................................... 201

Getting a picture of Elizabeth's sexuality ....................................... 201

Looking for Mr Right.......................................................................... 202 Table of Contents xvii

Wanting it all....................................................................................... 202

Toying with the talent ....................................................................... 203

Dallying with Dudley.......................................................................... 204

Riding a Cock Horse .................................................................................... 207

Sailing in New Directions ............................................................................ 209

Slaving with Hawkins ......................................................................... 210

Menacing from Spain ......................................................................... 213

Chapter 13: Choosing the Middle Way between Protestants and Catholics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215

Settling the Faith .......................................................................................... 215

Gauging opinion ................................................................................. 216

Pinning down the queen's beliefs .................................................... 216

Clashing over uniformity .................................................................. 217

Telling little white lies to Rome ...................................................... 218

Enforcing her will ............................................................................... 219

Conforming clergymen? .................................................................... 219

Converting Ireland? ..................................................................................... 220

Tackling the tribes ............................................................................. 220

Setting up the counties ..................................................................... 221

Polarising the faiths ........................................................................... 221

Claiming Calais ............................................................................................. 222

Feeling uneasy .................................................................................... 222

Getting involved in a French squabble ........................................... 222

Stirring Things Up with the Stuarts ........................................................... 223

Securing Scotland .............................................................................. 223

Landing right in the thick of trouble ............................................... 224

Wearing the crown, and losing the crown ...................................... 225

Triggering revolt ................................................................................ 228

Assessing the Decade: Girl Done Good? ................................................... 230

Chapter 14: Gunning for Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233