... to the church. For example in both 1571 and 1572 parliamentary sessions, bills were introduced to reform the Prayer book, With Walter Strickland wanting to remove practises regarded as Catholic in 1571, and bill proposing the removal of some rites and ceremonies. Moreover in the 1572 session John Field and Thomas Wilcox introduced The Admonition of Parliament attacking the Church for its similarities to a Catholic style church. Revisionist historians have argued the case that since the Queen easily squashed both attempts and imprisoned Wilcox and Field, there cannot have been serious a threat to Elizabeth's regarding legislation. However more traditionalist historians have countered this by reminding us that though the attempts failed we cannot ignore the fact they the issues were being brought up and discussed thus showing that perhaps a threat was growing, i.e. "The Sees of the Civil War" with Puritans challenging the crown. However if we ...

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