Why queen Elizabeth 1 and English parliament got a fairly well?

Answer 1

Because both sides feared a third party intervention! Roman Catholicism!

Elizabeth, in her religion, by her own admission was a Catholic , an Anglican Catholic! She said,' We and our people follow no novel or strange religion'. She followed the teachings of the Church Fathers and Holy Tradition. This upset the Bishop of Rome as did her rejection of Papal Supremacy and it led the papacy to intervention in English Politics, with the pope calling on the English People to remove Eliza from the English throne! Virtually calling for a death sentence, where does an expelled or rejected queen retire to?

On the other hand there was a strong presence of Calvinism within the parliament, a heretical sect. It wasn't only heretical, but it was motivated as well. A. To conquer and expel the Anglican,'Catholic,' Church and on the other hand to protect itself from Rome was a strong motivation. Their friends in France, whilst strong in numbers, suffered greatly in what was a virtual Civil War and at one time they suffered a 30,000 strong massacre in Paris. While the French King looked on!

If the English Protestants reacted against Eliza and the Anglicans and they in turn were supported by the Romans? So they were uneasy allies!

Eliza kept things on the edge and whilst not allowing to much freedom to the Anglicans and tolerating occasional outbursts from the Calvinists, occasionally putting their spokesmen in jail, things didn't go to badly . The greedy gentry and nobility were bought off by large chunks of Church property that brought the Church in to dire poverty in the next two reigns.

If anyone doubts this, it can be seen that in the next century the Calvinists ,once the Roman menace has evaporated, turned against Charles the First and the Anglican Church and destroyed both!