How Successfully Did James Deal With Religious Issues?

Question 1

Radicals dealt with well?

Answer 1

Puritans - Bancrofts canons, abbot 1610, declaration against preachers 1622 - less successful over time

Catholics - gunpowder plot assasinations attempt but dealt with increasingly well during his reign after oath of allegiance and executions

Armenians - William laud appointed and Montague controversy 1625

Failure due to only containing the puritans rather than addressing them which built up resentment and issues for his son

Question 2

Conformity and how to support it?

Answer 2

King James Bible 1611 unaltered by radical puritans and pleased moderate ones while also pleasing the general public

Protected the prayer book - despite Millenary petition and HCC

Spanish match 1621 - rioting and attacks on Catholics showing James did not protect the public faith from challenges to it

Protected prayer book from puritans allowing the majority of Anglicans to worship in peace however with catholic policies the people were unsure about the religious security of the nation.

Question 3

Foreign policy?

Answer 3

Protestant phase - marriage of daughter to Protestant and aversion of a Swedish vs Denmark war but the Dutch in 1610

Spanish match - James saw as diplomatic whereas it sacred parliament and the people

Thirty years war - failure of Mansfield expedition and protection of Protestantism

Failure due to religious, financial and parliameray issues caused by it