Religion

Question 1

Protestant opponents

Answer 1

• not happy with the Elizabethan settlement and wanted her to persue further reform

Question 2

Catholic opponents

Answer 2

• Catholic bishops refused to accept the settlement and were dismissed from their positions
  Some ministers refused to use the new Prayer book and continued to use the Catholic prayer book

Question 3

Was the settlement accepted internationally

Answer 3

Yes- this is because figures such as the Pope and Phillip believed Eliz could be eventually persuaded back to Catholicism

Question 4

Puritan

Answer 4

Pious religious protestants- influenced by European reformers such as John Calvin

Question 5

Puritans beliefs

Answer 5

• rejected ceremonies
  -worse simple clothing
  -studied the Bible very closely
  Some were made bishops by Elizabeth

Question 6

Presbyterianism

Answer 6

• They questioned the need for bishops at all
  -Criticised religious meetings
• Elizabeth suspended Edmund Grindal , the Archbishop of Canterbury for encouraging prophesyings ( religious meetings)

Question 7

New Archbishop of Canterbury

Answer 7

anti-puritan John Whitgift- new rules like a ban on unlicenced preaching and imprisonment of those who refused to follow the rules through a new High Commission

Question 8

Separatist movement

Answer 8

• did not want a national church
  -They wanted parishes to establish their own churches based on the Bibles teachings
  By 1583 small groups of Seperatists were emerging. Their activities were illegal

Question 9

The Act against Seditious Sectaries 1593

Answer 9

• Set the death penalty for those accused of being seperaticts

Question 10

Laws for Catholics in 1563

Answer 10

• Failure of office holders to take the oath of supremacy a second time was now punishable by death
  -The penalty for saying mass was now death

Question 11

Catholic threat in the 1560s

Answer 11

• Mary Queen of Scots threats in 1568
  -William Allen founded the Douai Seminary 1568 for Catholic Englishmen to become priests who would return to England
  -Pope excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570- Catholics were free to disobey her

Question 12

Treason Act 1571

Answer 12

• Made denying Elizabeths supremacy and bringing in copies of the papal bull excommunicating

Question 13

Jesuit priests

Answer 13

• Began arriving in England in 1580
  1581- the first Jesuits were executed

Question 14

Laws for recusancy

Answer 14

• Increased fines for this to 20 pounds which was impossible for ordinary people to afford

Question 15

Parlimentary law 1585

Answer 15

Act giving Catholic priests 40 days to leave England or be executed- nearly 150 Catholic priests were executed under Eliz

Question 16

Catholicism in England by 1603

Answer 16

• 10% with perhaps only 2% actively worshipping

Question 17

Enforcing Anglicanism

Answer 17

• High commision enabled the prosecution of disobedient clergy and theee were regular visitations
  -Attendance at Church services was compulsary
  -39 Articles clearly laid out Anglican beliefs

Question 18

By 1600

Answer 18

• Englands religion was Protestant
  -Puritanism had been associated with treason