Breadth Study 1: Church-State relations

Question 1

How many times did H7 summon parliament

Answer 1

7 times in 24 years
-sat for a total of 72 weeks during that period

Question 2

When did parliament give H7 pushback

Answer 2

1504

Question 2

How did H7 use parliament less conventionally

Answer 2

• Used it to enhance his claim
• passed a series of Acts of Attainer
  BUT no suggestion that it was parliament that gave him his right to the throne

Question 3

How many times did parliament meet between 1509 and 1529

Answer 3

4 times- relations mostly harmonious

Question 4

When did Wolsey meet opposition in parliament

Answer 4

1523
-£260,000 ‘loans which had not been repaid

Question 5

H7 tensions between state and Church

Answer 5

Henry was prepared to override sanctuary laws in order to arrest Humphrey Stafford who rebelled against in in 1486

Question 6

When did H7 tighten controls over who could claim benefit of the clergy

Answer 6

1489 and 1491

Question 7

Evidence of H7 having good relations with the papacy

Answer 7

the pope appointed Henry’s own candidate to be Archbishop of Canterbury

Question 8

example of anticlericalism effecting parliament

Answer 8

in 1512 there was another act limiting the benefit of the clergy

Question 9

H8 book supporting the Catholic church

Answer 9

Assertio Septum Sacrementorum; The defence of the 7 sacraments

Question 10

1532 acts restricting the church (2)

Answer 10

-Submission of the Clergy
-Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates

Question 11

What did Submission of the Clergy entail

Answer 11

-agreed to accept Henry’s power over them
-not allowed to call convocation without his permission
-Weren’t allowed to pass Church laws without his agreement

RESTRICTED the legal and financial power of the English Church

Question 12

What did the 1534 Act of Supremacy do?

Answer 12

confirmed H8 as the Head of the English Church
-accepted Henry’s assumption of the royal supremacy

Question 13

What was the treason act

Answer 13

1534- treason redefined as speaking against the king and his supremacy

Question 14

What did H8 do in 1535

Answer 14

Appointed Cromwell as Vicegerent in spirituals

Question 15

When did the dissolution of the monasteries begin

Answer 15

1536- smaller monasteries which had an income of less than £200 per annum

Question 16

how much did H8 make out of former monastic estates

Answer 16

£1.3 million

Question 17

What was the first attempt to define the doctrine of the New English Church

Answer 17

Act of Ten Articles 1536

Question 18

When did Cromwell issue injunctions to the English clergy

Answer 18

1536 and 1538
-discouraged practices that were seen as superstitious by reformers

Question 19

act that reinforced Catholic doctrines1539

Answer 19

Act of Six Articles

Question 20

What act introduced the English Book of Common Prayer // when

Answer 20

1549 Act of Uniformity

Question 21

What did Cranmer do in 1552

Answer 21

Produce a more protestant version of the english book of Common Prayer

Question 22

When did Mary repeal the Act of Supremacy

Answer 22

1554

Question 23

What was Mary unable to do

Answer 23

• Not able to demand the return of former monastic lands which had legally been sold to new owners
• made it hard to restore the Catholic Church to its former landed power

Question 24

What did the 1559 Act of Supremacy make Elizabth

Answer 24

Supreme Governor of the Church

Question 25

What did the Act of Supremacy 1559 also include

Answer 25

-included an oath of loyalty to be take by all officials
-penalty was the loss of office

Question 26

Who refused to take Elizabeth’s oath of supremacy

Answer 26

Only 1 of Mary’s bishops
-Bishop Llandaff

Question 27

How did Elizabeth extend her control over the church

Answer 27

appointed protestant sympathisers in their place
-e.g Matthew Parker as Archbishop

Question 28

In the lower clergy how many refused the oath

Answer 28

only 300 out of 8,000

Question 29

Example of royal intervention in doctrine

Answer 29

• Under puritan pressure Convocation passed Article 29 (denied the real presence in Communion)
• unacceptable to catholic and moderate protestants
• Elizabeth ordered the article to be left out

Question 30

Example of early puritan challenge to elizabeth

Answer 30

Some radical clergy refused to conform to settlement rules about vestments
-Elizabeth saw this as a direct challenge to authority

Question 31

How did Elizabeth deal with early puritan challenges (4)

Answer 31

1566- ordered Matthew Parker to enforce the rules
-Parker issued ‘Book of Advertisements’ which instructed clergy on the correct form of dress
-37 London clergy resigned in protest
-Parker put an end to the ‘vestment controversy’

Question 32

What were prophesyings

Answer 32

meetings of puritans that aimed to encourage better education through Bible study and puritan clergy practising the preaching of sermons

Question 33

Why did Elizabeth see prophesyings as dangerous

Answer 33

-difficult to control what was said
-feared the spread of radical ideas that could challenge her settlement

Question 34

What did Elizabeth do in response to prophesyings

Answer 34

-Ordered the new Archbishop, Grindal to supress them
-Grindal sympathetic- refused
-Elizabeth SUSPENDED him and placed him under house arrest in 1577

Question 35

Example of Puritan challenges in parliament

Answer 35

1587-Wentworth and Cope attempted a bill that would have removed the structure of the Church of England

Question 36

Who were the puritan MPs that were imprisoned by Elizabeth (2)

Answer 36

Anthony Cope and Peter Wentworth
-Elizabeth ordered the speaker to block any further discussion of the settlement

Question 37

By 1589, Puritan threat had diminished. why?

Answer 37

Key supporters such as the Earl of Leicester had died
-Act against Seditious Secretaries 1593

Question 38

What was the Act against Seditious Secretaries 1593

Answer 38

ordered anyone who refused to attend CoE services to leave the country
-any exiled who returned would be executed