Eliz Relig Pol Flashcards
First A of Uniformity
1559
Dem everyone goes to church once a week or pay a fine of 12 pence
Est the use of the new BCP… was a version of 1552 , make it more acceptable to traditional minded worshippers. For ex more carefully worded to allow variations in Eucharist belief
A of Supremacy/ Church settlement
1559
Created a via media between prot and cath
Made Q ‘supreme gov’ not ‘sup head’ of the CofE
Demanded an oath of sup from all clergymen and church officials
Royal Injunctions
1559
Nominated ‘visitors’ to inspect the church gave special instructions
Such as the removal of ‘things superstitious’ from churches
The purchase of an eng bible and a copy of Erasmus’s paraphrases by every church
The celebration of Eucharist at a simple communion table (not altar)
The suppression of cath practices (e.g pilgrimages and the use of candles’
The req that any prospective wife of a clergymen had to prod a certificate, signed by two JPs, to indicate her fitness for the role
39 articles
1563
Drawn up by church in convocation, confirmed by A of Parl in 1571
Based on Cranmer’s earlier articles broadly supported reformed doctrine.
For example, they denied teachings concerning transubstantiation and affirmed the scripture was the final auth of savation
Dec 1559
All but one Marian bishop ref to consecrate the new AoC, Matthew Parker, Cambridge uni don of mod views… their pos filled by prots exiled under Mary, such as Edmund Grindal who became B of London in 1560
The settlement
Was a compromise ‘via media’
Eliz faced pressure from two extremes; A ‘puritan choir’ of radical clergymen and MPs, who may have forced her to accept a more prot prayer book than she wanted to
Cath bishops and cons peers in the HoL, strongly opp uniformity bill, believing the settlement was too prot
The q viewed the settlement as an act of state, defining the rel between the crown and church but not making ‘windows into men’s souls’
Others incl (Dudley + Cecil) believed that settlement was the starting point for the development of of a puritan church… didn’t go far enough
Excom
1570 pope excom eliz, the new eng church became more prot and those who failed to conform would be punished… puritan factor grew
Cath’s became more active… linked up w/ movements on the continent for counter-reformation in the 1570s and 1580s. Sup the activities of eng priests trained abroad (e.g Douai from 1568) and Jesuits who came to eng to reconvert it (harshly treated by auths)
The Vestrian controversy
1566 occurred when archbishop Parker issued his advertisements making certain vestments compulsory.
Angered puritans, partic in London and some puritan mins were deprived of their livings
Strickland and Alphabet bills
1571
Strickland intro a bill to abolish the prayer book
Alphabet bills to make clergy more ‘godly’ eg end pluralism. Probs would have gone through if not for Strickland intro ref of new BCP to parliament… end kneeling at communion, remove vestments.
Q angry goes against 1559… used royal veto to block both bills. HoL puritans blamed failure of alphabet bill on Strickland and HoC, split movement.
Whigift’s 3 articles
1583
Demanded acceptance from the clergy of
The royal supremacy
The prayer book
The 39 articles
Few puritan clergy were prepared to break from the church by ref the 3 articles
The Lambeth articles
1595 approved by whitgift, reaffirmed the fundamentally Calvinist beliefs of the church of eng and proved acceptable to both puritans and their opponents.
The admonition of parliament
1572 by John Field and Thomas Wilcox demanded greater reliance on the auth of scriptures and church gov by mins and elders rather than bishops… writers imprisoned
Presbyterian reb
1583 stood out against 3 articles
Peter Turner and Anthony Cope
1584 (PT) and 1587 (AC) intro bills to parliament to replace the BCP with a new prayer book stripped of ‘popish’ elements. Neither was passed
Presbyterianism decline
Late 1580s as parl rejection of cope’s proposed prayer book suggested further ref was unlikely
