challenges to the Religious Settlement

Question 1

puritans wanted to make the church more……

Answer 1

protestant

Question 2

puritan

Answer 2

a strict, extreme protestant.

Question 3

puritans wanted Elizabeth to make further reforms to……….

Answer 3

remove all traces of Catholicism from the English Church.

Question 4

many of the protestant bishops appointed in 1559 supported the ………… and wanted Elizabeth to make further reforms.

Answer 4

puritans

Question 5

the Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, Matthew Parker, was a moderate who………

Answer 5

helped Elizabeth to uphold the ‘middle way’ of the religious settlement.

Question 6

many puritans had been….

Answer 6

Marian exiles.

Question 7

while in in the Protestant parts of Europe, some Puritans had come into contact with the teachings of leading reformers like……………

Answer 7

Martin Luther and John Calvin.

Question 8

The Vestment Controversy of the 1560s was a serious Puritan challenge to the religious settlement. Puritan priests refused to wear the ……….

Answer 8

surplice

Question 9

surplice

Answer 9

a white vestment used by Catholics.

Question 10

the …………………….. had made surplices compulsory to wear.

Answer 10

Royal Injunctions

Question 11

at first, Elizabeth tolerated some puritan priests refusing to wear the surplice, but in 1965 she ……………..

what happened to those who still refused?

Answer 11

ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to ensure that all priests wore the surplice.

they lost their jobs and were imprisoned.

Question 12

a large proportion of the nobility were………

Answer 12

catholic.

Question 13

the compromise of the religious settlement satisfied some of the remaining catholic nobles, but others refused to …………

Answer 13

attend church services.

Question 14

recusants

Answer 14

members of the nobility who were catholic who refused to attend church services.

Question 15

the Catholic nobility was influential in areas outside the south-east, especially ………….

Answer 15

Lancashire.

Question 16

the Catholic nobility used their strong ……. power to ………….

Answer 16

local

protect Catholics and maintain their traditional religious practices.

Question 17

why did the Catholic nobility pose a potential threat to the religious settlement?
what did Elizabeth do to minimise this threat?

Answer 17

there was a risk that they might try to overthrow Elizabeth and restore Catholicism
she didn’t force them to attend church services. as long as they didn’t make a public show of their beliefs, they were allowed to continue practising Catholicism.

Question 18

when did the threat posed by the Catholic nobility increase and become more serious?

Answer 18

when Mary arrived in England in 1968

Question 19

there was a risk that the Catholic rulers of France or Spain might try to ……….. the Religious settlement and replace Elizabeth with a Catholic monarch.
however, ……………

Answer 19

reverse, challenge

neither country wall in the position to challenge the religious settlement during the 1560s.

Question 20

the threat of a French invasion was serious in the first years of Elizabeth’s reign, but it faded with the start of the ……………………

Answer 20

Wars of Religion in 1962

Question 21

in the 1560s, Spain was facing a growing ………. in the Netherlands

Answer 21

revolt

Question 22

what did Spain do to try and prevent an alliance forming between England and Protestant Netherlands?

Answer 22

Spain tried to stay on good terms with Elizabeth and avoided challenging her religious settlement.

Question 23

The Catholic aspects of the settlement encouraged Catholic countries and the Pope that ………
what was the result of this?

Answer 23

Elizabeth might eventually return to Catholicism.

it helped reduce the threat of a foreign challenge during the early years of the settlement.

Question 24

the Pope had the power to e……………. Elizabeth (expel her from the Catholic Church).
this might encourage Catholic countries to ……
it could also encourage ….

Answer 24

excommunicate

invade England.
rebellion at home by releasing Elizabeth’s Catholic subjects from their duty of loyalty to her.

Question 25

however, neither France or Spain had the …………….. to invade England, and there was no clear …….. for a revolt against Elizabeth at home, so the pope didn’t take any action against her in the 1560s.

Answer 25

military resources

support