Changes to the Church's Structure

Question 1

When did the king officially become the supreme head of the Church?

Answer 1

after the Act of Supremacy in 1534

Question 2

When was the significance of the king appointing Cromwell Vicegerent in Spirituals in 1534?

Answer 2

Cromwell was second only to the king, outranked archbishops and bishops
-gave Cromwell considerable power

Question 3

Why were 6 new dioceses created, though one was abolished?

Answer 3

this was an attempt to improve the Churchs’ administration

Question 4

What did Henry appoint Cromwell as in 1534?

Answer 4

Vicegerent Spirituals

Question 5

When can the process of dissolution be traced back to?

Answer 5

the compilation of the ‘Valor Ecclesiasticus’

Question 6

What was the Valor Ecclesiasticus

Answer 6

a survey set up by Cromwell in 1535 to discover exactly how wealthy the Church was

Question 7

What did the Valor Ecclesiasticus allow Cromwell to know?

Answer 7

an accurate indication of the resources which were available for the Crown to plunder

Question 8

How many ‘visitors’ were sent around the country to inspect all monastic institutions?

Answer 8

4

Question 9

What did the inspector Tregonwell say in his accounts?

Answer 9

often a mix between criticism and praise for the holiness and conscientious of those whom he was inspecting

Question 10

What did the 4 visitors provide Cromwell with?

Answer 10

enough evidence to justly bring an Act of Parliament in 1536 to dissolve the smaller monasteries

Question 11

How were smaller monasteries defined for the dissolution?

Answer 11

those with an income under £200 per annum or less

Question 12

In what year was another Act made dissolving the remaining monasteries?

Answer 12

1539

Question 13

By what date were all remaining religious houses dissolved?

Answer 13

March 1540

Question 14

What year was the start of ‘visitations’?

Answer 14

1535

Question 15

When was the first set of royal injunctions?

Answer 15

1536

Question 16

What did the 1536 royal injunctions do? (3)

Answer 16

• encouraged moral conduct
• placed a restriction on the number of holy days to be observed
• discouraged pilgrimage

Question 17

What was the 1538 attack on traditional religious practices?

Answer 17

• pilgrimages and veneration of relics and images were condemned
• each parish church had to acquire a venecular bible

Question 18

In 1538 what were pilgrimages and veneration of relics and images condemned” as?

Answer 18

“works devised by men’s fantasies”

Question 19

When did the first vernacular Bible appear?

Answer 19

In 1539

Question 20

What Act restricted the public reading of the Bible to upper-class males?

Answer 20

the Act for the Advancement of True Religion of 1543

Question 21

the Act for the Advancement of True Religion of 1543 do?

Answer 21

restricted the public reading of the Bible to upper-class males

Question 22

What was the proposal of the 1536 Ten Articles? (2)

Answer 22

• Only 3 sacraments were necessary for salvation, Eucharist, baptism, and penance
• praying to saints for the remission of sins was rejected

Question 23

What was the significance of the 1536 Ten Articles?

Answer 23

showed both the Lutheran and Catholic influences of the development of doctrine

Question 24

What was the Bishops Book 1537?

Answer 24

this restored the 4 sacraments omitted from the 10 articles as a more conservative document, but given lower status

Question 25

What was the 1539 Six Articles Act?

Answer 25

This reasserted Catholic doctrine.

Denial of transubstantiation was deemed heretical

Question 26

What was the Kings Book 1543?

Answer 26

the revised Bishops’ Book, largely conservative with some Lutheran hints

Question 27

How had the church continued the same? (3)

Answer 27

• hierarchy of the church remained largely intact
• little attempt to alter the interior of churches
• services remained largely in traditional form

Question 28

What 2 circumstances weakened the cause of religious reform?

Answer 28

• the passing of the Six Articles Act 1539

- fall of Cromwell 1540

Question 29

What were the 5 major changes to the post-reformation church?

Answer 29

• jurisdiction of the pope destroyed
• king’s supremacy highlighted
• monasteries dissolved
• transfer of resources from the Church to the Crown
• parish churches required to possess the vernacular bible