Above: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth After the death of Queen Mary in 1558 {chap, vii.) her half-sister, Elizabeth, succeeded, as already mentioned, to the English Crown. Elizabeth was as great a champion of the Reformation as Mary had been of Catholicism. Of religious zeal she herself had little or none, but she desired ecclesiastical uniformity throughout her dominions, and the establishment of a well-ordered State Church of which she should be the head. This Church should, of course, extend its sway over ... Read More