RELIGION

Question 1

• WHAT WAS THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT?

Answer 1

• THE REFORMATION MEANT THAT ENGLAND MOVED FROM A CATHOLIC COUNTRY TO A MOSTLY PROTESTANT ONE

Question 2

• WHY WERE ENGLISH PROTESTANTS HOSTILE TOWARDS CATHOLICS?

Answer 2

-THE REFORMATION
- THE BURNING OF PROTESTANTS WHEN ENGLAND BRIEFLY RETURNED TO CATHOLICISM UNDER QUEEN MARY
- WAR AGAINST CATHOLIC SPAIN DURING ELIZABETHS REIGN

Question 3

-WHAT CHALLENGES DID JAMES FACE FROM CATHOLICS?

Answer 3

-1603- JAMES IMPOSED RECUSANCY FINES AGAINST CATHOLICS- FINES FOR ANYONE WHO DID NOT ATTEND COMPULSORY COE SERVICE
-1604- LEGISLATION AGAINST JESUITS A CATHOLIC ORDER OF RELIGIOUS MEN
-1605- GUNPOWDER PLOT- ATTEMPT BY RADICAL CATHOLICS TO BLOWN UP JAMES AND PARLIAMENT
-1606- OATH OF ALLEGIANCE- RESULT OF THE GUNPOWDER PLOT- FORCED CATHOLICS TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO HIM AND NOT THE POPE

Question 4

• WHAT DID PURITANS BELIEVE?

Answer 4

-PROTESTANTS WHO BELIEVED THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY REFORMED

Question 5

-WHAT CAHLLENGES DID JAMES FACE FROM PURITANS

Answer 5

-1603- MILLENARY PETITION- LIST OF REQUESTS CALLING FOR MODIFICATIONS IN CHURCH SERVICES ANMD THE FREEDOMS OF MINISTERS TO NOT WEAR CEREMONIAL ROBES ETC.
-1604- HAMPDEN COURT CONFERENCE- RESPONSE TO THE MILLENARY PETITION AND TO SETTLE THE CHURCH- ONLY ACHIEVEMENT MADE WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE
1604- BANCROFTS CANONS- A CHURCH LAWS- UPHELD MANY ORTHODOX PRACTICES THAT THE PURITANS CONDEMNED IN THE MILLENARY PETITION
- 1604- RICHAD BANCROFT IS MADE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY- ORDERED THAT ALL CLERGY WHO REFUSED TO CONFORM TO THE CANONS BE EXPELLED FROM THEIR POSITION

Question 6

• WHY DID PEOPLE THINK THAT JAMES SHOWED FAVOURITISM TOWARDS ARMINIANS?

Answer 6

• BECAUSE THE ARMINIANS SUPPORTED HIS DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIANS WITH SPAIN WHILST THE PURITANS WANTED HIM TO JOIN THE 30 YEARS WAR