Catholic Religious Developments

Question 1

Elizabeth is often quoted as not wishing to make “________________”.

Answer 1

windows into mens souls

Question 2

Where did most Catholic intellectuals go int exile?

Answer 2

the Spanish Netherlands

Question 3

How did some Catholic priests survive?

Answer 3

as being private chaplains to Catholic members of the nobility who protected them or conducted secret Catholic services

Question 4

When was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 4

1569

Question 5

What did the Northern Rebellion of 1569 provoke?

Answer 5

a punitive attitude towards Catholics

Question 6

What year did Pope Pius V excommunicate Elizabeth?

Answer 6

1570

Question 7

What forced English CAtholis into an impossible position?

Answer 7

the Papal Bull which called for all English Catholics to depose their Queen

Question 8

3 aggressive acts were passed during the 70s and 80s, what were these?

Answer 8

1. 1571 Act made the publication of papal bulls treasonable
2. 1581 Act made it treason to withdraw alleiegance to the Queen, saying mass punishable by heavy fine and imprisonment and recusancy punishment raised to £20 per month
3. 1585 Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests

Question 9

What did the 1585 Act against Jesuits and Seminary Priests do?

Answer 9

this made it treasonable for priests ordained under the Pope’s authority to enter England making it easier for the courts to secure convictions for treason

Question 10

Under the 1585 Act Against Jesuits and Seminary Priests, how many priests were convicted and executed from 1586-1603 under the terms of this act?

Answer 10

123 priests

Question 11

between what years were 123 priests convicted and executed under the terms of the 1585 Act Against Jesuits and Seminary Priests?

Answer 11

1586-1603

Question 12

What did the 1571 Act do?

Answer 12

this made the publication of papal bulls treasonable

Question 13

What did the 1581 Act do?

Answer 13

made it treason to withdraw alleiegance to the Queen, saying mass punishable by heavy fine and imprisonment and recusancy punishment raised to £20 per month

Question 14

What year was the fine for recusancy increased to £20 a month?

Answer 14

1581

Question 15

In what year was the law tightened and any recusant who defaulted on his patent would have 2/3rds of his estate seized by the Exchequer?

Answer 15

1587

Question 16

How was the law on Catholics strengthened in 1587?

Answer 16

asany recusant who defaulted on his patent would have 2/3rds of his estate seized by the Exchequer

Question 17

From what years was the persecution of recusants at its height?

Answer 17

1588-1592

Question 18

Why was the tightening of legislation against Catholics largely because of?

Answer 18

because of worsening relations with the Catholic King Philip II of Spain and fear of Catholic rebellion

Question 19

In what year was a college founded in Douai, Spanish Netherlands, in order to train Catholic priests to be sent to England and to keep Catholicism alive and convert?

Answer 19

1568

Question 20

By what year had 100 seminary priests from Douai arrived in England

Answer 20

1580

Question 21

By what year had an additional 179 seminary priests from Douai arrive in england?

Answer 21

1580-85

Question 22

By what year was merely being a Catholic priest sufficient for the death penalty?

Answer 22

1585

Question 23

In what year did the Society of Jesuits begin to send Jesuit priests to England?

Answer 23

1580

Question 24

Who were the first Jesuits to become involved with attempting to re-Catholicise England?

Answer 24

Parsons and Campion

Question 25

What year was Campion captured by the government and executed?

Answer 25

1581

Question 26

Why did Catholcism become more of a ‘country house religion”?

Answer 26

as the educated priests associated more readily with their protectors, the Catholic gentry, than ordinary people who were ignored and largely stayed as household chaplains

Question 27

Why was the Catholic mission weakened?

Answer 27

as a result of priests dividing over leadership of the missionary movement