26 essential pieces of information (Edward and Mary)

Question 1

How old was Edward when he was crowned king?

Answer 1

Nine

Question 2

What was the Book of Homilies?

Answer 2

Model sermons

Question 3

When did Somerset dissolve the chantries?

Answer 3

1547

Question 4

Give the dates of Edward’s prayer books

Answer 4

1549 and 1552

Question 5

What was Edward’s Act of Uniformity?

Answer 5

The First book of Common Prayer became law under this

Question 6

When was the 2nd Act of Uniformity passed?

Answer 6

1552

Question 7

Why were the Forty Two Articles never passed?

Answer 7

Edward died

Question 8

What were the causes of the Western Rebellion?

Answer 8

Religion, failings of local government, personality clashes

Question 9

Name four demands of the Western rebels

Answer 9

1. Mass in latin
2. Sacraments to be hung back over the alter and worshipped
3. Holy bread and holy water on Sunday
4. Images to be hung back up on the church
5. The old prayer to be used until Edward turned 16

Question 10

Explain what enclosure is

Answer 10

The process of fencing in common land so as to make it private property, usually carried out by the wealthy to claim land for their sheep and subsequently reducing the land available to the poor to graze their animals/grow crops.

Question 11

What caused Kett’s rebellion?

Answer 11

Economic (enclosure, rent etc), Somerset’s policies, protest against local government, personality clashes

Question 12

When did Somerset fall from power?

Answer 12

31st October 1549 (the year of rebellions)

Question 13

Who was Northumberland?

Answer 13

President of the Council and Lord Protector from 1551 onwards

Question 14

When did Edward die?

Answer 14

6th July 1553

Question 15

Who was Charles V?

Answer 15

Most powerful political figure in Western Europe, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Philip’s dad, Mary’s cousin

Question 16

What was the Act of Repeal?

Answer 16

Nullified all religious leaders

Question 17

What is the Devise?

Answer 17

The document that Edward used to name Lady Jane Grey as his successor

Question 18

When did Mary come to the throne?

Answer 18

19th July 1553

Question 19

In what year were the Heresy Laws passed?

Answer 19

1554

Question 20

What did Mary’s Royal injunctions do?

Answer 20

Removed married clergy, suppressed heresy, re-ordained clergy, restore holy days

Question 21

Who were Latimer and Ridley?

Answer 21

Anglican bishops that were burned as heretics (protestants)

Question 22

What was the difference between Mary’s first Act of Repeal and the second?

Answer 22

The second act undid all anti-papal legislation since 1529 (Henry)

Question 23

When was Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 23

January 1554

Question 24

What were the causes of Wyatt’s rebellion?

Answer 24

Marriage, fear of a foreigner (xenophobia), female rule, religious reasons, decline in the cloth industry in Kent and local political instability

Question 25

Why was Wyatt’s rebellion not successful?

Answer 25

Events moved too fast for the conspirators, Mary gave a rousing speech and got the people on side, Renard and Paget took the sting out of the rebels plans, Mary decided to wait for the rebels in London

Question 26

Who was Cardinal Pole?

Answer 26

A senior priest who had been forced into exile in Rome after opposing Henry VIII’s religious changes, returned to England under Mary I as Archbishop of Canterbury. Was later excommunicated by the Pope.