Elizabeth and Catholics Flashcards
What Act made Elizabeth the leader of the Church of England?
Act of Supremacy 1559
What act made attendance of a Protestant Church mandatory?
Act of Uniformity 1559
Who was a Conformer?
Someone who switched from Catholic to Protestant
Who was a Church papist?
Catholics who attended Protestant services but remained Catholic secretly
Who was a Recusant?
Catholic people who refused to go to church and just paid the fines
Who was a Plotter?
Catholics who plotted against the Queen
What was the Act of Persuasions?
Raised the fines by 10,000%
What was the Act Against Priests?
Anyone who sheltered a Catholic Priest was killed
What was the Recusancy Act
2/3 of land could be taken from Recusants
What was the Act Restraining Recusants?
Meant that Catholics had to stay within 5 miles of their homes
What was a Seminary Priest?
Supported Catholics and didn’t try to covert people to Catholicism
Came from France and Italy
What was a Jesuit Priest?
Came to convert people to Catholicism
What did the rich do to hide Catholic Priests?
Priest holes
What did Walshingham do?
He organised a spy network, which included reading mail
There were more spies than priests
Mary Queen of Scots
Came to England to stay safe from Scottish Nobels
Mary was imprisoned
Throckmorton Plot
The Pope made plans to put Mary on the English throne
No proof Mary knew
Throckmorton was excuted
Babington Plot
Coded messages sent to Mary but Francis Walshingham found out
Mary was executed dispute Elizabeth not wanting to
Spanish Armada
King of Spain kept trying to take over England after Elizabeth rejected his marriage proposal
