Religious legislation 1529-47

Question 1

When was the Act in Restraint of Appeals?

Answer 1

February 1533

Question 2

What was the Act in Restraint of Appeals?

P/C?

Answer 2

Prevented appeals to Pope on religious matters, reducing the Pope’s influence in England

Protestant

Question 3

When was the Act in Restraint of Annates?

Answer 3

1532

Question 4

What was the Act in Restraint of Annates?

P/C?

Answer 4

Stopped payments to Rome and gave the king the right to appoint bishops

Further breaking with Rome - Protestant

Question 5

What year was big for Protestant/ anti-Pope acts?

Answer 5

1534 - 7 acts in total passed

Question 6

When was the Submission of the Clergy?

Answer 6

March 1534 (1)

Question 7

What was the Submission of the Clergy?

P/C?

Answer 7

Gave king control of convocation and prevented church contact with Rome

Protestant

Question 8

When was the Act of Succession?

Answer 8

March 1534 (2)

Question 9

What was the Act of Succession?

P/C?

Answer 9

Ended Catherine of Aragon’s claim to be Henry’s wife, breaking papal authority

Protestant

Question 10

When was the Dispensations Act?

Answer 10

March 1534 (3)

Question 11

What was the Dispensations Act?

P/C?

Answer 11

Stopped all payments to Rome, with the Archbishop of Canterbury put in charge of deciding all legal cases that departed from church law

Protestant

Question 12

When was the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 12

November 1534

Question 13

What was the Act of Supremacy?

P/C?

Answer 13

Henry given control of the church, including the matters of doctrine and belief. Big one in break from Pope.

Protestant

Question 14

When was the Act of First Fruit and Tenths

Answer 14

December 1534 (1)

Question 15

What was the Act of First Fruit and Tenths?

P/C?

Answer 15

Holders of some church jobs had to pass money on to king. Pre-empts dissolution

Protestant

Question 16

When was the Treason Act?

Answer 16

December 1534 (2)

Question 17

What was the Treason Act?

P/C?

Answer 17

Made it a crime to criticise Henry’s marriage, successsion, and changes to the Church.

Preventing Catholic complaints - Protestant

Question 18

When was the Dissolution of the Smaller Monasteries?

Answer 18

1536 (1)

Question 19

What was the Dissolution of the Smaller Monsteries?

P/C?

Answer 19

Monasteries with income of under £200 per annum deemed to be unholy and decade - dissolved

Catholics held religious houses as important whereas Protestants thought were false - Protestant

HOWEVER Valor Ecclesiaticus praised the larger monasteries - some Catholicism

PLUS more about gaining money for war - motivated by neither

Question 20

When was the Act of Ten Articles

Answer 20

1536 (2)

Question 21

What was the Act of Ten Articles?

P/C?

Answer 21

Rejected 4/7 sacrements of Catholic belief - Protestant

BUT upheld other 3: baptism, Eucharist, and penance - Catholic

Question 22

When were the first Royal Injunctions?

Answer 22

1536 (3)

Question 23

What were the first Royal Injunctions?

P/C?

Answer 23

Attacked the Catholic practice of pilgrimages, and encouraged religious instruction

Protestant

Question 24

When were the second Royal Injunctions?

Answer 24

1538

(2 years after the 1st set)

Question 25

What were the second Royal Injunctions?

P/C?

Answer 25

1. Ordered an English Bible to be present in all parishes within two years
2. Discouraged pilgrimages
3. Ordered removal of all relics

Protestant

Question 26

When was the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries?

Answer 26

1539-40 (1)

Question 27

What was the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries?

P/C?

Answer 27

Holiness of monasteries ‘disproven’

Protestants did not believe in importance of religious houses - saw them as upholders of traditional religion

HOWEVER at the same time MPs voted for an act promising that the wealth from the dissolution would be used to establish colleges, new bishoprics, bring other social benefits - possibly for religious benefits not entirely anti-Catholic

Question 28

Give details on the Dissolution of the Monasteries

Answer 28

1. Over 500 religious houses dissolved
2. Crown income doubled
3. Re-sale of monastic lands estimated at £1.3 million

Question 29

When was the Act of Six Articles?

Answer 29

1539 (2)

Question 30

What was the Act of Six Articles?

P/C?

Answer 30

Confirmed transubstantiation and forbade the taking of communion in both kinds

Confirmed Catholic practise while attacked reformed -Catholic

Question 31

When was the Act for the Advancement of True Religion?

Answer 31

1543

Question 32

What was the Act for the Advancement of True Religion?

Answer 32

Restricted access to the Bible to the upper-classes

Catholic