The Divine Rule under Elizabeth IThe faire queen extended the realm to Wales Ireland and Scotland but such sharing of divinity opened the path to the transfer of power to the nobles in Parliament.
Far from London local rulers such as Hugh O'Neill in Ireland sometimes
saw a stark contrast between their absolute power as war lords at home
and their lack of influence with the queen at her court in London. Once
local strongmen received a share of divinity from the monarch to
underwrite their local status they climbed up upon that mystic level
with the monarch. Among equals or near equals the fear of the sin of
regicide diminished. After all once one was brought up to court and up to
the divine plain of the monarch the struggle became one between almost
equal rivals each defending the truth.
Combined with these developments was the reality of a long reign of an
elderly and increasingly infirm queen Elizabeth I who had given "politick"
more and more sway as time went on. Despite the popularity with the people
of Shakespeare's messages concerning the sin of regicide in Macbeth,
England was now a land populated with many local divine rulers. While this
strategy supported centralized authority the problem lay in the rule of
government being entrusted by the monarch to a small handful of personal
favorites in the privy council. These few local gods were selected based
upon factors such as religion, beauty and behavior at court. Those left
out of real power sharing felt the ties to the central authority weakening
and were inclined to rebel or transfer their allegiance to another monarch
elsewhere. And there were many to choose from: Popes, Emperors and other
Monarchs all competing with the English Monarch for world domination.
A close examination of motives for the Elizabethan rebellions will
demonstrate that all stem from sour relationships at court and exclusion
from the power sharing.
 
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