[MockTurtle]

I have read a bit on this period of English history, and I have never heard that before. But whatever her personal wishes were, it didn't matter. She did what she thought would be good for England, so she avoided as much bloodshed as possible. She was raised a Protestant, and she remained a Protestant.

Where did you get the idea that Elizabeth avoided a lot of bloodshed? She put to death twice as many Catholics as Mary Tudor put to death Protestants. Many of them were priests and nuns.

[stripes1776]

Here is a duplicate of my former post so you don't have to even click to a different frame:

From The Western Heritage by Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner:

Despite proven cases of Catholic treason and even attempted regicide, she [Elizabeth] executed fewer Catholics during her forty-five years on the throne than May Tudor had executed Protestants during her brief five-year reign.

I tend to trust anything with Donald Kegan's name attached to it.

So what sources are you quoting from?