Edward

Question 1

How did Henry leave religion

Answer 1

Protestant on the surface but Catholic in tone

Question 2

What were the key influences in edwards reign

Answer 2

Somerset
Northumberland
John Hooper
Cramnrr

Question 3

Kew influences in Mary’s reign

Answer 3

Bishop Gardiner
Cardinal Pole
Bishop Bonner
Philip/Spain

Question 4

Key influences in Elizabeth’s reign

Answer 4

Cecil
Archbishop Parker
Archbishop Grindal
Archbishop Whitgift

Question 5

What was the original goals of edwards religious change

Answer 5

Legislation focuses on destroying Henry’s settlement and elements of Catholicism

Question 6

Examples of Edward’s Protestant legislation

Answer 6

Chantries act
Repeal of six articles
Repeal of the treason Act

Question 7

When was the chantries act

Answer 7

November 1547

Question 8

When was the repeal of the six articles

Answer 8

December 1547

Question 9

When was the repeal of the treason act

Answer 9

December 1547

Question 10

What is the chantries act

Answer 10

Been passed by Henry’s last parliament but not collected. Chantries were the money collected for the prayers for the dead

Question 11

What was the repeal of the treason act

Answer 11

Allowed people to ficus religion freely

Question 12

Examples showing how edwards government began to build

Answer 12

Act of uniformity
New treason act
Second act of uniformity
42 articles

Question 13

When and what was the act of uniformity

Answer 13

1549

First prayer book and official document- not very Protestant

Question 14

What and when was the new treason act

Answer 14

1552

Made it an offence to question the supremacy

Question 15

What and when was the second act of uniformity

Answer 15

1552

Second prayer book- much more Protestant/ Calvinist

Question 16

What was the main difference between the first and second prayer book

Answer 16

Prayers for the dead and the wearing of vestments was removed
Transubstantiation replaced by communion tables

Question 17

What and when was the 42 articles

Answer 17

1553
Based on cramners teachings (very Protestant)
Submitted to parliament but never became law

Question 18

Issues with Somerset

Answer 18

Protestant but constrained by fear of Charles V, rebellions and wars with Scotland- focus was not in religion

Question 19

Northumberland’s take on religion

Answer 19

Clear period of Protestant reform

Put his religious views aside to please Edward

Question 20

Why was the quality of the clergy an issue

Answer 20

An inconsistent picture across England i terms of quality and quantity of Protestant clergy
Catholic priests were still common

Question 21

Where were the strongest areas for Protestant clergy

Answer 21

London, east Anglia

Question 22

What was interesting about certain bishops in Somerset’s reign

Answer 22

8 bishops declared themselves undecided

Question 23

What was wrong with actual Protestant clergy

Answer 23

Bishop hooper surveyed his own diocese and found 311 clergy - 10 couldn’t recite the Lord’s Prayer and 171 couldn’t repeat the 10 commandments

Question 24

What did Somerset order and what did they examine

Answer 24

Ordered royal visitations to examine the state of the clergy

Question 25

What could be used for sermons

Answer 25

The book of homilies- this was until a formal doctrine was established

Question 26

What royal proclamations were issued

Answer 26

States that all Catholic images would be remodel and only authorised clergy were allowed to preach

Question 27

What was the black rubric proclamation

Answer 27

Kneeling to receive communion was only done to ensure good order and not because you were in the presence of Christ

Question 28

What did the black rubric do

Answer 28

Denies transubstantiation and establishes communion as symbolic rather than literal

Question 29

What was opposition like

Answer 29

Lack of resistance and opposition - virtual absence of persecution

Question 30

What rebellion occurred in 1549

Answer 30

Western rebellion

Question 31

Who were the 2 high profile opponents

Answer 31

Stephen Gardiner and Edmund Bonner

Question 32

What were the 2 bishops opposed to

Answer 32

Services in english and doctrinal changes

Question 33

What did Stephen gradient do

Answer 33

Expressed his views publicly in 1548 and was sent to Tower of London until Mary’s reign

Question 34

What did Bonner do

Answer 34

Privy council told him to preach about Holy communion but instead he preached about transubstantiation and was imprisoned

Question 35

What was an effect of the denial of transubstantiation?

Answer 35

Gold plates for communion were collected by Northumberland for crown finances

Question 36

Why did they leave church positions vacant

Answer 36

So that that the crown could profit from the wages | Eg bishop tunstall was imprisoned and his bishopric merged into Newcastle

Question 37

What happened to bishop tunstalls wage

Answer 37

He was paid 1320 but instead £665 would go to the bishop of Newcastle and the rest would be kept by the crown

Question 38

What was the effect of leaving church positions vacant

Answer 38

Lead to declining standard in clergy

Question 39

What showed that Protestantism wasn’t fully established by the end of edwards reign

Answer 39

When Mary ascended the throne part of England welcomed back Catholicism with items re-emerging after being stashed for years