Chapter 4

Question 1

When was the Jacobean period?

Answer 1

1603-25

Question 2

When was the Caroline period?

Answer 2

1625-49

Question 3

What was the Protestant belief of predestination?

Answer 3

The belief that an individual’s salvation was already decided by God and was not dependent on how that person lived.

Question 4

How did Puritans sometimes refer to themselves?

Answer 4

The Godly

Question 5

What did Puritans believe about the Church of England?

Answer 5

That it had not been sufficiently reformed.

Question 6

What did Arminians believe about the Church of England?

Answer 6

That it had been reformed enough or perhaps too much, and wanted to bring it into line with traditional Catholic practices.

Question 7

What sect were the majority of people in England?

Answer 7

Calvinist

Question 8

How were Arminians viewed by many?

Answer 8

As being too close to Catholicism because of their emphasis on ceremony.

Question 9

Why did all English Protestants share a general hostility to Catholicism?

Answer 9

• Because of the war against Catholic Spain under Elizabeth.
• The burning of Protestants under the Catholic ‘Bloody’ Mary (1553-58).

Question 10

What was James I prepared to make a distinction between?

Answer 10

Catholics who were quiet and those who were factious.

Question 11

What were recusancy fines?

Answer 11

Fines imposed on people who did not attend the compulsory Church of England service on Sunday.

Question 12

Who were Jesuits?

Answer 12

A religious order seen as the aggressive arm of the Catholic Church.

Question 13

When did James I order the collection of recusancy fines?

Answer 13

May 1603

Question 14

When was the Gunpowder Plot?

Answer 14

November 1605

Question 15

What did James I do in response to the Gunpowder Plot?

Answer 15

Introduced the Oath of Allegiance.

Question 16

When did James I introduce the Oath of Allegiance?

Answer 16

1606

Question 17

What did the Oath of Allegiance require people to do?

Answer 17

Swear Catholic recusants to declare their allegiance to James and not the Pope.

Question 18

How were Puritans referred to?

Answer 18

the hotter sort of Protestant

Question 19

When was the Millenary Petition?

Answer 19

1603

Question 20

What was the Millenary Petition?

Answer 20

A petition presented to James I by Puritans as he travelled to London to claim the throne.

Question 21

What did the Millenary Petition say?

Answer 21

It was a list of requests calling for:

• modifications in church services
• freedom of ministers to not wear ceremonial robes
• education requirements for ministers

Question 22

When did James I announce that all tithes would go towards paying better salaries for church ministers?

Answer 22

July 1603

Question 23

What were tithes?

Answer 23

1/10 of parishioners’ produce which paid the salary of clergymen.

Question 24

What was James I announcement on tithes a response to?

Answer 24

The Millenary Petition

Question 25

When was the Hampton Court Conference?

Answer 25

1604

Question 26

What did James I do in response to the Millenary Petition other than tithes?

Answer 26

He called the religious Hampton Court Conference.

Question 27

What was the only outcome of the Hampton Court Conference?

Answer 27

The start of the King James Bible.

Question 28

When was the King James Bible completed?

Answer 28

1611

Question 29

What had James I hoped the Hampton Court Conference would be?

Answer 29

A settlement of all the matters that were being questioned by the Puritans.

Question 30

When did James I approve Bancroft’s Canons that were passed by the Church of England?

Answer 30

September 1604

Question 31

Why were Bancroft’s Canons provocative to Puritans?

Answer 31

They upheld many Church practices that Puritans had condemned in the Millenary Petition.

Question 32

What 3 things did Bancroft’s Canons uphold that Puritans had criticised and wanted removed?

Answer 32

• Clerical dress
• Use of the sign of the cross in baptism
• Bowing at the name of Jesus

Question 33

When was Richard Bancroft made Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 33

December 1604

Question 34

Along with appointing Bancroft to Archbishop, what did James I push for in the church at the same time?

Answer 34

Conformity with Bancroft’s Canons which meant persecuting Puritans.

Question 35

What did Bancroft order to happen with regards to his Canons?

Answer 35

All clergy that refused to conform were expelled.

Question 36

What were the expelled clergy known as?

Answer 36

The Silenced Brethren

Question 37

What was the term used to describe the broad church maintained by Elizabeth and James?

Answer 37

The Jacobethan balance.

Question 38

What did James I not do towards the end of his rule that signalled his move towards Arminianism?

Answer 38

He did not censor Richard Montagu’s book, A New Gag for and Old Goose, an Arminian piece of literature.

Question 39

How was Charles I’s court viewed by Calvinists and Puritans?

Answer 39

As being dominated by Arminians or Catholics

Question 40

Who was Charles I’s wife?

Answer 40

French Princess Henrietta Maria.

Question 41

Why was Charles I’s marriage religiously problematic?

Answer 41

Henrietta Maria was a Catholic and Charles was already seen as favouring Arminians too much.

Question 42

What was Catholicism synonymous with?

Answer 42

Absolutism

Question 43

What did Charles I do to Richard Montagu?

Answer 43

He made him his royal chaplain, a very provocative move.

Question 44

When was the York House Conference?

Answer 44

February 1626

Question 45

Who chaired the York House Conference?

Answer 45

Duke of Buckingham - Charles did not attend.

Question 46

What came out of the York House Conference?

Answer 46

Nothing.

Question 47

When was Laud made Bishop of London?

Answer 47

1628