12 - Religion, ideas and reform Henry VIII

Question 1

1530 - May and December

Answer 1

May - vernacular bible burnt
Dec - clergy accused of praemunire

Question 2

1531 - Feb

Answer 2

clergy pardoned of pramemunire and paid £119,000 to Henry

Question 3

1532 - March

Answer 3

First act of Annates, banned payments to Rome

Question 4

1533 - Feb

Answer 4

act in restraint of appeals to rome, king supreme head of church

Question 5

1534 - Jan and April

Answer 5

Jan - second act of annates, abbots and bishops appointed by king
April - execution of Elizabeth Barton

Question 6

1534 - Nov and Dec

Answer 6

Nov - act of supremacy
Dec - treason act

Question 7

1535 - Jan

Answer 7

Cromwell Vice-gerent in spirituals

Question 8

1536 - Feb, May, July, August

Answer 8

Feb - act for dissolution of lesser monasteries
May - Anne Boleyn beheaded
July - act of 10 articles
August - royal injunctions, clergy to abandon pilgrimage, defend royal supremacy

Question 9

1537 - July

Answer 9

Bishop’s book, 4 lost sacraments reclaimed, no transubstantiation, mass glossed over

Question 10

1538 - Sept

Answer 10

Royal Injunctions, english bible in all parishes in 2 years, relics destroyed, pilgrimage discouraged, Thomas Becket’s shrine destoryed

Question 11

1539 - June

Answer 11

act of 6 articles, confirmed transubstantiation, private mass, banned marriage of preists

act for the dissolution of greater monasteries

Question 12

1540 - July

Answer 12

Cromwell executed

Question 13

1543 - May

Answer 13

advancement of true religion, english bible to only upper classes

Question 14

1544 - may

Answer 14

english litany introduced but not enforced

Question 15

1545 - dec

Answer 15

Chantries act, dissolved

Question 16

1546 - July

Answer 16

Anne Askew burned for denying transubstantiation

Question 17

evidence of change in church organisation

Answer 17

• after 1535, role of Bs and ABs declined
• priests had to cross the Pope’s name

Question 18

evidence of continuity in church organisation

Answer 18

• 50 members of clergy refused to swear oath
• only men in laity had to swar oath, not women

Question 19

evidence of change in physical

Answer 19

• 800 religious houses destroyed
• Thomas Becket pilgrimage site destroyed

Question 20

evidence of continuity in physical

Answer 20

• before 1540, not all destroyed
• people still went to their parish church

Question 21

evidence of change in beliefs

Answer 21

• Morebath quickly adapted to change

Question 22

evidence of continuity in beliefs

Answer 22

• 6 months after royal injunctions, 80% of Linclon deanaries had not bought bibles

Question 23

evidence of change in parish community

Answer 23

• religious guilds in urban parishes fell from 5 to 3

Question 24

evidence of continuty in parish community

Answer 24

• Barking 1538, speakers had not sworn oath