Religion under Edward

Question 1

When was the Book of Homilies?

Answer 1

July 1547

Question 2

What was the Book of Homilies legislation?

Answer 2

Every parish ahd to have a copy of Cramner’s Book of Protestant sermons for daily worship. Clergy conduct English services, have English bible

Question 3

When was the Repeal of the Act of Six Articles?

Answer 3

1547

Question 4

What was the impact of the repeal of the Act of Six Articles?

Answer 4

Effectively left the church without an official doctrine

Question 5

When was the Repeal of the Treason Act?

Answer 5

1547

Question 6

What did the Repeal of the Treason Act 1547 do?

Answer 6

Removed the old heresy, treason and proclamation laws. Allows people to discuss religion freely without fear of arrest/imprisonment

Question 7

When were the Royal Injunctions?

Answer 7

July 1547

Question 8

What did the Royal Injunctions of 1547 do?

Answer 8

All clergy had do to the service in English.Had to create a library of Protestant literature. Remove all superstitious images/statues from Churches.

Henrician treason, censorship and herersy laws not enforced

Question 9

What were the impacts/reactions of the Royal Injunctions law?

Answer 9

• Catholics wanted changes reversed
• Protestants throught change was not happening fast enough
• Religious confusion due to lack of persecution

Question 10

When was the Dissolution of the Chantries?

Answer 10

November 1547

Question 11

Dissolution of the Chantries 1547

Answer 11

• Shut due to superstition
• Ended 2374 chantries and seized their assets
• Enquiries to determine all possessions
• Raise money for war with France

Question 12

When was the First Prayer Book?

Answer 12

December 1548

Question 13

What was the first prayer book?

Answer 13

A manual by Cramner outlining the liturgy to be followed. English services, cerical marriage allowed, no prayers for dead and ✅ transubstantiation

Question 14

When was the First Act of Uniformity?

Answer 14

1549

Question 15

What did the First Act of Uniformity 1549 do?

Answer 15

Made Book of Common Prayer official liturgy + enforced.

Question 16

Who was John Hooper?

Answer 16

Extreme reformer
Opposed vestments
Jailed Oct 1550
Bishop of Gloucester

Question 17

What are some Catholic aspects of the First Act of Uniformity 1549?

Answer 17

• Fast + holy days
• Traditional robe and vestments

-Transubstantiation

Question 18

When was the New Treason Act?

Answer 18

January 1552

Question 19

What did the New Treason Act of 1552 do?

Answer 19

Offence to ? Royal supremacy or any faith articles in church

Question 20

When was the Second Book of Common Prayer?

Answer 20

January 1553

Question 21

What was the Second Book of Common Prayer 1552?

Answer 21

Removed all traces of Catholicism, Mass removed, consubstantiation, Knox and Hooper still disapproved

Question 22

When was the 42 Articles submitted?

Answer 22

1552

Question 23

What did the 42 Articles intend to do?

Answer 23

Justification by faith alone, confirm Protestantism throughout evenry facet of Church doctine

(P sacraments, clerical marriage, ban on singing mass for dead souls)

Question 24

Catholic discontent expressed in the…

Answer 24

Western Rebellion

Question 25

What were the Iconaclastic riots?

Answer 25

When radicals in London, Lincolnshire, and East Anglia were unhappy wiht the rate of change so they destroyed stanied glass windows, statues, images. Gold and silver candles sometimes given to poor

Question 27

Why can this be refuted as unrepresentative?

Answer 27

Wills were written by one person for a whole area and may represent their views rather than the whole community

Question 28

When was the Western Rebellion?

Answer 28

1548-49

Question 29

Where and when was William Body killed?

Answer 29

Helston 1548, overseeing destruction of images

Question 30

Why were people provoked into rebellion in Devon?

Answer 30

Due to the priest's use of the English Prayer Book on Whitsunday 1549, then gather at Bodmin AoU

Question 31

What happened on the 20th June?

Answer 31

Rebels persuade preist to deliver traditional mass, move and join forces at Crediton

Question 32

Who hijacked the rebellion?

Answer 32

Edward Courtenay and Henry Arundell (Sons of declining Catholic families) Drew up demands