4 - religious change & opposition in the 1530s & 40s

Question 1

religious changes (1529-36)

Answer 1

• pressure put on church (eg. praemunire/Submission of Clergy)
• pressure put on Pope (eg. Act in Restraint of Annates, 1532)

Question 2

religious changes (1536-39)

Answer 2

• Act of Ten Articles (1536)
• Royal Injunctions (1536 & 38)
• Bishop’s Book (1537)
• Matthew’s Bible (1537)
• Publication of the Great Bible (1538)
• still evidence of traditional practices (eg. John Lambert executed for denying transubstantiation & Six Articles, 1539)

Question 3

religious changes (1539-43)

Answer 3

• Henry influential in policy (eg. Six Articles & marriage to Catherine)
• restricted access to the Bible (1543, Act for the Advancement of True Religion)
• published conservative King’s Book (1543)

Question 4

religious changes (1543-47)

Answer 4

• few changes
• arrangements for Protestant Regency Council
• England ≠ Protestant (by the time of Henry’s death)
• few decisive doctrinal changes & majority of population was still Catholic

Question 5

opposition to religious changes (1529-47)

Answer 5

• greatest challenge = Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)
• some individuals (eg. John Fisher, Thomas More, & some monks & friars)
• many changes had little impact on people so no reason for opposition
• threat of severe penalties (including death)
• Cromwell ran propaganda campaign in parliament & country

Question 6

Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533)

Answer 6

prevented Catherine from appealing to Rome to stop divorce

Question 7

Act of Supremacy (1534)

Answer 7

confirmed Henry as Head of the Church in England

Question 8

Act of Ten Articles (1536)

Answer 8

rejected 4 of 7 sacraments of Catholic belief

Question 9

Royal Injunctions (1536)

Answer 9

attacked pilgrimages

Question 10

Bishop’s Book (1537)

Answer 10

reduced importance of mass & purgatory

Question 11

Matthew’s Bible (1537)

Answer 11

Protestant version of the Bible

Question 12

Royal Injunctions (1538)

Answer 12

ordered English Bible in parishes, discouraged pilgrimages & removed relics

Question 13

Six Articles (1539)

Answer 13

confirmed transubstantiation & forbade communion of both kinds

Question 14

Act for the Advancement of True Religion (1543)

Answer 14

restricted access to the Bible