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what is the argument of traditional historiography towards Catholicism

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  • tends to have been written by english catholics . . . almost semi hagiography
  • focoused of persecution and martydom
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20c. changes to catholic historiography

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  • expansion of the feild of study
  • becomes catholic history as opposed to hagiography
  • development of revisionist approaches eg. Duffy and Haigh
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what was the majour debate concerning catholicism that developed in the 70s-80s

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Bossy vs. Haigh

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quick 2 word summary of Bossy v. Haigh argument

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Bossy ‘the english Catholic community’ = revivalist

Haigh ‘reformation and resistance in tudor lancashire = survivalist

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brief explanantion fo Bossys argument

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  • english catholicism temporarily dies out

- untill revived by catholic missionaries from the continent from the 1570s onwards

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brief explanation of Haighs argument

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reformation not wanted by most people

catholicism persists through the reformation ‘parish anglicans’ aka. (survivalism

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roughly what were english catholics doing around 1558

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  • majourity of populace
  • only one marian bishop stayed to serve under elizabeth
  • thousands of clergy and wealthier laity go into continental exile
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roughly what were english catholics doing around 1560s

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  • act of uniformity fones for non attendance at church 12d
  • catholics largley contained within the church itself
  • many hoping for a reversal of fortune
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when is it possible to suggest a turning point for the elizabethan catholics was ?

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1568-72

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when does mary stuart come to england

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1568

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when was the northern rebellion

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1569

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who issued a Bull against Queen Elizabeth

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Pope Pius V

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when did Pope excomunicate Elizabeth from the roman catholic church

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1570

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what were the connontation of queens excomunication

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catholics were released from loyalty to her, meant that they became more heavily persecuted because queen more fearful of them

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when was the ridolfi plot ?

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1571 … first attempt to kill queen elizabeth

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when was st. Bartholomews day massacre ?

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1572

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outcomes of st. B’s day massacre

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changes atmosphere, suddenly protestants feel defiensive and shocked, believe Catholics capable of horrible catholic conspiracys

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when did recusansy become an indictable offence and what did the fines increase too?

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1581, £20 per month

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when was the Throckmorton assasination plot

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1583, wanted to make mary S queen

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when was the Babington plot

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1586, wanted to make mary s queen

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when was Mary S executed for treason

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1587

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when was the intended invasion year of the Spanish armada ~?

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1588

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tell yourself about church papastry

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  • describes Catholics who attend protestant church services
    -catholic move in and out of conformity depending on the circumstances of the wider world . . . which makes counting no. of contemporary catholic v. tricky
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tell yourself about recusansy

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  • becomes more common after the events of 1568-72
  • catholics move in and out of recusancy depensing of circumstances
  • gentry/ noble householdsmight become surrogate catolic parishes
  • recusant gentry/ nobility still played a large role in running the country and its affairs
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example of genrty house becoming mini catholic parish

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lord vaux

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tell yourself about clerical diffrences

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-diffrent groups of the catholic clergy have diffrent religious tolereances
-English Priests, Missionary priests from (1574), jesuits (1580)
-english priests more tolerant of church papastry than of hardline missionaries
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when did missionary priests start comming over to england

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1574

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WHEN DID JESUITS START COMING OVER TO ENGLAND?

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1580

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when and what were the wisbech stirs

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sees divisions between secular priests and jesuits, infighting

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by 1603 rough numbers of catholic and jesuit priests in england

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c. 300 missionary

and c.200 jesuits

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where is it arued that the priests focoused the most of their attention ?

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on the catholic gentry

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some of the problems with recusant catholicism

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  • v, hard to be a catho;lic without access to sacremests liturgy ect.
  • hard to access priest
  • instead put importance on books material culture music and devotione ect.
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aims of the northern rising

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-replace Elizabeth with Mary queen of Scots and to restore Catholicism

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international causes of northern rising

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  • scotish alliance with france
  • Mary I arrival in england, and links with her french catholic family
  • poor spanish relations
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national/ political causes of northern rising

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tension in court that elizabeth had still not mareied or produced an heir

  • Marys arrival in England
  • pent up northern anger
  • remnants of regional quasi feudal northen bonds
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religious causes of northern rebellion

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  • elizabeth considered illegitimate by catholics, daughter of anne bolyen and remnant of the break woth rome. mary queen of scots had connection to Henry VIIIs sister maggie tudor, and she was catholic
  • nostalgia for the old catholic religion still strong in the north, acts such as praying for the dead and using rosaries still commonplace
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how many of the 6000 rebels that took part in the northern rising were killed ?

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700

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why was the north a huge power block

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  • borderland between England and Scotland

- security of the country

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why was it the north that revolted

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  • authority less immediate
  • angst in the northern families. local and personal grievances stemming from crown in attempts to remove power
  • sense of northern identity
  • remaining quasi feudal ties
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What does Anne Parkinson argue is ‘The most potent of the causes of the revolt’

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lingering popular resentment in the north since the pilgrimage of grace and continued practice of some catholic aspects

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WHAT DOES ANHNE pARKINSON DESCRIBE the summons of northumberland and Westmorldand to court as?

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‘The match that put a light tothe tinder of the revolt’

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when did the Northern Rising start?

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24th October 1569

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which historians argue for the Norths justifiable regional crisis regarding their loss of power

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David Marcombe and S.E.Taylor . . . . loss of power through centralisation .. starts under Henry VIII, continues with edward and Elizabeth

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christpher Haigh extra points

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  • that many priests tried to insulate their parishes from religious change under elizabeth esp. in the north and the west
  • priests still practices catholic sacrements
  • new priests congreagated in the southeast
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what did the Jesuit Parsons attribute to the catholic gentry

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group of heros ensured te ‘survival of the faith’

  • they did but argumentally at the expense of everyone elses ?
  • concentration of recusancy around houses of catholic gentry revealed in many of the surveys, was the result, and not the cause of the attention priests gave to gentelmen
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who organised the 1571 Ridolfi Plot?

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Roberto Ridolfi … florentine Banker

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plan for the ridolfi plot ?

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marry mary to Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk … found out by elizabeths intelegence network

48
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when was the Throckmorton Plot ?

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1583

49
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what was the plan of throckmorton plot?

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to assasinate elizabeth and put Mary I in her place … cooperation with the spanish

50
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when was the Babbington Plot?

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1586

51
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when happened to the babbington plot

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a letter containing plan was decoded. also tied mary into knowledge of the plot and she was executed for treason

52
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why do Anthony Fletcher and Dirmaid Macchulloch argue shit went down around 1569

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  • protestantism was not secure in the country
  • secualr and religious tensiosns
  • loss of power form the north
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peter marshall priests quote

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‘There is no doubt that priests who had been part of the abortive Marian counter reformation helped lay the foundations for future catholic survival, yet as jack scars brick observed, their fatal shortcoming was that they had no way of replacing themselves’

54
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how many time less intesne was elizabeths persecution than marys

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38

55
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one reason why catholics could live in realative ease under E . according to P.M

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Exchequer that administered recusancy fine was v. inefficient, lists out of date , proceduser cumbersome oChurch courts = little coercive power over those who regarded excommunication (there most serious sanction) a spiritual irrelevance But Michael Questier has argued that when they worked in a coordinated way, the enforcement mechanisms available to the Elizabethan authorities were powerful ones;

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what are the reasons why Catholics were not forced on mass into conversions ?.

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  • bishops worried about sould and wanted actually conversion
  • when genuine religious conversion seemed a prerequisite of political loyalty, the secular authorities were more interested in conformity
57
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on what three occasions did clergy bring forward legislation to make receval of protestant eucharist a legal requierment ?

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1571, 1576, 1581 … E, refused eveery time ‘fearful that this might strain the conciences of the catholics beyond breaking point’

58
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what were catholics actually pnished for under elizabeth

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‘hanged for treason not burned for heresy’

-which was potential propaganda ploy

59
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who argues that a catholic yeomen, or ‘middle sort’ hardly existed ?

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D. Machulloch

60
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name a catholic gentry household that were sociall and politicall active and still had influence at local and national level

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Browne familly of sussex - M. Questier

61
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evidence for continuing strand of ‘plebian catolicism’

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Of 280 individuals sighted for recusancy for the first time in 1615, only 50 were gentlemen, while 239 were yeomen labourers and mechanicals

62
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marshalls “most potent symbol” of surviving Catholicism in England

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Margaret Clitheroe

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example of a good mixed religious family

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the throckmortons ,ob throckmorton probable author of puritan Marprelate tracts and first cousin francis ececuted 1584 after the failure of the cathjolic plot that bears his name

64
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Histiorians tend to agree on the notably feminised character of English catholic culture what is this known as

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matriachal authority / order

65
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what does Matriachal authority entail ?

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religious observances were arranged by recusant wife, while husban attended church of england services

66
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why doe sbossy argue that Matriachal catholic household structure appeal to women

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because they were alienated by the domestic authoritarianism implicit in protestant teaching

67
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instead of bossy what does Marshal argue may be the cause behind wht women chose to do the catholic stuff

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Perhaps more strategic calculations were involved: church papist husbands conformed to preserve estate against recusant fines, amd maintain public duty .. while wives carried out reisitance in private sphere of household. . . .

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reasosn why sometimes recusant wives were not agreed .. they really were ‘mixed marraiges’

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Women particularly targeted by papist priests because the sex is more fit and apt to delude. Moreover women rule more in the hearts of children and so within these few years their number is increased here among us exceedingly

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Marie Rowlands quote / argument

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Roman Catholicism was a belief and value system; popery was a social and political construct; recusancy was a legal offence which had to be proved.

70
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who write about Margaret Clitheroe

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Peter Lake and Nicheal Questier

71
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point of interest about Maggie C.

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not at all ‘standard tudor woman’ .. constanty breaking patriachal order

  • went to death place of catholic at night
  • was not being discriet
  • took priests into her house and had a catholic schoolmaster
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Anne Dillon clitheroe quote

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aradoxically the more careful the reading and the closer the examination [of mushs text], the further the woman recedes and a series of archetypes (typical example of a certain thing) begin to move into her place

73
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what can the Ballad ‘The plagues of Northumberland’ show

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  • that the rising of the northen earls was due to a deep set poison
  • protestant source, condeming the rebel actions against the queen
74
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what ballad can be used to refrence warning to other disenting protesntants and link catolicism with teh devil

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‘A letter to Rome, to declare to the Pope, John Felton his friends is hanged in a rope

75
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which ballad discussed divine intervention and gods punishment for the catholics still livving in england

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‘A new Ballad entitled against rebelious and false rumours’

76
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in the depositions after northern rising who claimed that they had accidently attended church on the day of tehe mass ?

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Mr George Cliffe, seniour member of durham clergy

77
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in the depositions after northern rising who claimed that being bullied of setting up church altars even though we was not paied to do it and he was very elusive about how he was paied

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Robert Hutcheson, 26, labourer

78
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what document argued that idea that catholics were persecuted for their faith was a notorious ‘untruth’

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Allen’s Defence of English Catholics

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where was the peddlars chest found

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walled up in a country house in lancashire, discovered mid 19c. .. disguised with ladies bonnet acutally containes all this things needed for a catholic church service

80
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country house with double priest hole

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Coughton Court . double hide, if anyone opened it up, still couldnt see piest inside

81
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house with 3 priest holes

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Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire

82
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what was the name of one of the seminary colleges founded by some of the catholic exiles

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Douay France est. 1561

83
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who writes about the crowns monetary gians after the northern rebellion ?

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Kristina Kesselring

84
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what is the name of kristina kesselrings article

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‘Mercy and Liberality’

85
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how much does kesselring argues it cost the crown to put down the norther rebellion ?

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£95,000

86
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how did the crown make money from the rebellion

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  • 4000 pardoned = £600
  • rebel property sold £10,447
  • rents from newly accuired land (custom that land of traitor goes to crown)
  • also gained influence, could put supporters in the north
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what had happened to catholicism by the 1590s

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it had a split personality (peter marshall)

  • split into Jesuits who were not happy with the status qio and wanted to kill the queen
  • and Appelants who were happy to maintain the status quo
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what caused the split in the catholic community

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legeslation from the 1570s carried through to the 1580s, that was triggered by the northern rebellion, the rdolfi plot and Marys arrival in england

89
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what is Christopher haigh’s seminal book

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‘from monopoly to minority’

90
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who argues that the juesuit mission has been misunderstood by recent scolarship, that unlike haigh suggests the gentry were not targeted because it was cushty, instead that it was because they were trying to create political upheval !!

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Micheal carifello

91
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who is the jusuit whi praised the english gentry for their work in maintaining catholicism

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Robert parsons

92
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where does marshal specificallyt talk about there still being cathoic remnants in 1569 during visitation

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chester

93
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who says that ‘church papastry was seen as an ‘enduring and viable strategy’

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alexandra walsham

94
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who discusses MAGGY C

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peter lake and micheal questier

95
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who writes the article ‘negotiatiung religious identities’

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katy gibbons

96
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what does katy gibbons write

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‘negotiating religious identities’

97
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who wrote the catholic community

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William Sheils

98
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what state does shiels argue tat the catholic sommunity was in at the start of E’s reign ?

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pretty strong, it had direction ad active learned bishops thanks to mary (however protestants could also claim similar characteristics tanks to edward)

99
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how does W.sheils describe elizabeths religion ?

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not evangelical, her religion retained strong attatchment to lutheran sacremental theology and a devotion to the symbol of the cross

100
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when was the royal supremacy. was it popular

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1559, only got through by 3 votes so not excessivly

101
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what were the outcomes of the royyal suprenacy

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all bar 2 marian clergy resigned , so did cathedral clergy and 2,000 priests, some of whom started ‘roving ministeries’.

102
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two example of surviving conservative clergy after 159 royal supremacy

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1) Christopher tracey devon, was trained in the pre reformation church, combined comtment to supremacy with traditional sacrememtal understanding
2) Vicar of bonnington lincolshire, continued to provide all 7 sacrements as late as 1567

103
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william sheild catholic conitnuity quote

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“in such places, continuity rather than change was the distinctive feature of the church”

104
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why were things becoming more difficult for catholics later in the 1560s

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  • 1563 convocation of 39 articles … distinctly reformed direction of theology, whilst retain8ing episcopal structure
  • in Europe end of council of trent 1564 and the Helvetic confession of faith of 1566 sharpened confessional identities
  • attendance at protestant church services was condemned by the pope
  • papal bull of 1570
105
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before end of 1560s what was the main from of catholic protestants agression ?

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written debate between Bishop John Jewel and Thomas Harding

106
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why did it all go to shit around 1571

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  • RNE
  • excomunication
  • ridolfi around this time specifically anticatholic legeslation as opposed to simply seeking uniformity can be traced
107
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what happened in 1581

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parliament made illeagal to reconcile anyone into catholic church, and greatly increased recusancy fines to potential £20 a month

108
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good case study of recusant loyal to the catholic state

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thomas tresham

109
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talk about thmas tresham

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Northamptonshire
part of marys privy council
after perhaps as church papist children were baptised into catholic church
meeting with Robert [arsins in 1580 convinced him of recusancy , personal loyalty to regime not in doubt , though he experience periods of imprisonment throughout regime , gave shelter to priests. Often in dispute with protestant neighbours . built triangular lodge at Rushton, which expressed his devotion t the trinity .. saw himself as part of enduring religion whos present fate was to bear sufferings of the time

110
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another family / [erson who was recusant yet loyal to crown

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Anthony Browne

111
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who was anthony Browne?

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browne although catholic but never against the state . in 1591 household honoured by state visit from Elizabeth . continued after brownes death, wife buolt chapel with choir and pulpit in which sermons preached every week and mass celebrates on feast days to congregation of 120 half of whom recived the sacrament. This transcends typical ‘domestic household piety’

112
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what happened in 1566

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Nationwide survey of the JPs – 1/3 found the Elizabethan settlement unfavourable

113
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what was discovered in 1567

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Over dozen clergy in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire found using prayers for the dead.

114
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who established douay missionary college 1568

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William Allen

115
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what is the papaal bul that excomunicated wlizabeth called

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Regnans in Excelsis

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