Breadth Study 1: Church-State relations Flashcards
How many times did H7 summon parliament
7 times in 24 years
-sat for a total of 72 weeks during that period
How did H7 use parliament less conventionally
- 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
How many times did parliament meet between 1509 and 1529
4 times- relations mostly harmonious
When did Wolsey meet opposition in parliament
1523
-£260,000 ‘loans which had not been repaid
H7 tensions between state and Church
Henry was prepared to override sanctuary laws in order to arrest Humphrey Stafford who rebelled against in in 1486
When did H7 tighten controls over who could claim benefit of the clergy
1489 and 1491
Evidence of H7 having good relations with the papacy
the pope appointed Henry’s own candidate to be Archbishop of Canterbury
example of anticlericalism effecting parliament
in 1512 there was another act limiting the benefit of the clergy
H8 book supporting the Catholic church
Assertio Septum Sacrementorum; The defence of the 7 sacraments
1532 acts restricting the church (2)
-Submission of the Clergy
-Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates
What did Submission of the Clergy entail
-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
What did the 1534 Act of Supremacy do?
confirmed H8 as the Head of the English Church
-accepted Henry’s assumption of the royal supremacy
What was the treason act
1534- treason redefined as speaking against the king and his supremacy
What did H8 do in 1535
Appointed Cromwell as Vicegerent in spirituals
When did the dissolution of the monasteries begin
1536- smaller monasteries which had an income of less than £200 per annum
how much did H8 make out of former monastic estates
£1.3 million
What was the first attempt to define the doctrine of the New English Church
Act of Ten Articles 1536
When did Cromwell issue injunctions to the English clergy
1536 and 1538
-discouraged practices that were seen as superstitious by reformers
act that reinforced Catholic doctrines1539
Act of Six Articles
What act introduced the English Book of Common Prayer // when
1549 Act of Uniformity
What did Cranmer do in 1552
Produce a more protestant version of the english book of Common Prayer
When did Mary repeal the Act of Supremacy
1554
What was Mary unable to do
- 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
What did the 1559 Act of Supremacy make Elizabth
Supreme Governor of the Church
What did the Act of Supremacy 1559 also include
-included an oath of loyalty to be take by all officials
-penalty was the loss of office
Who refused to take Elizabeth’s oath of supremacy
Only 1 of Mary’s bishops
-Bishop Llandaff
How did Elizabeth extend her control over the church
appointed protestant sympathisers in their place
-e.g Matthew Parker as Archbishop
In the lower clergy how many refused the oath
only 300 out of 8,000
Example of royal intervention in doctrine
- 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
Example of early puritan challenge to elizabeth
Some radical clergy refused to conform to settlement rules about vestments
-Elizabeth saw this as a direct challenge to authority
How did Elizabeth deal with early puritan challenges (4)
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’
What were prophesyings
meetings of puritans that aimed to encourage better education through Bible study and puritan clergy practising the preaching of sermons
Why did Elizabeth see prophesyings as dangerous
-difficult to control what was said
-feared the spread of radical ideas that could challenge her settlement
What did Elizabeth do in response to prophesyings
-Ordered the new Archbishop, Grindal to supress them
-Grindal sympathetic- refused
-Elizabeth SUSPENDED him and placed him under house arrest in 1577
Example of Puritan challenges in parliament
1587-Wentworth and Cope attempted a bill that would have removed the structure of the Church of England
Who were the puritan MPs that were imprisoned by Elizabeth (2)
Anthony Cope and Peter Wentworth
-Elizabeth ordered the speaker to block any further discussion of the settlement
By 1589, Puritan threat had diminished. why?
Key supporters such as the Earl of Leicester had died
-Act against Seditious Secretaries 1593
What was the Act against Seditious Secretaries 1593
ordered anyone who refused to attend CoE services to leave the country
-any exiled who returned would be executed
When did parliament give H7 pushback
1504
