... England was then to settle the succession and religious questions, very chaotic and undefined since her siblings' policies, in order to remain on the Throne. * * * The first year of Elisabeth's reign when she sat on the Throne of the English Kingdom in the November of 1558, was devoted to the settlement of immediate questions such as the succession itself, and the decision about supremacy and doctrine. Thus, in terms of proper and constructive settlement, Elisabeth had to create the Church she wished for the country. Indeed, what is known now as the "Elizabethan Religious Settlement" was composed of two main acts, namely the 1559 Act of Supremacy and the 1559 Act of Uniformity. She applied then her religious settlement through these two essential and basic acts with the help of her chief advisor William Cecil in 1559. Indeed, as for the Supremacy question, as Henry VIII's ...

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