[RobbyS]

Elizabeth's suppressions extended into Ireland, even to those in the Pale. Let us not forget that her intervention in the Low Countries beenfited the Dutch far more than the England. She not only formented rebellion in Ireland but died with her government still at war and almost bankrupt. The best thing that can be said about Her religious policy is that it avoided the horrors of the wars in France and her Church produced a theology that avoided fanaticism.

[what's up]

it avoided the horrors of the wars in France and her Church produced a theology that avoided fanaticism.

And that's saying quite a lot.