Elizabeth and Religion

Question 1

In what year was the religious settlement passed?

Answer 1

1559

Question 2

Name the two acts that established the Religious Settlement

Answer 2

Act of Uniformity/Act of Supremacy

Question 3

Name three things that influenced Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement

Answer 3

The Privy Council/Foreign relations/Personal preference

Question 4

Name two things the Catholics would have been happy with from the Religious Settlement

Answer 4

Imagery/vestements

Question 5

What does taking communion in both kinds mean?

Answer 5

Using both the bread and the wine

Question 6

How did Elizabeth enforce church attendance on a Sunday?

Answer 6

1 shilling fine

Question 7

Who was Elizabeth’s first Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 7

Parker

Question 8

What was the Vestments controversy?

Answer 8

Priests refusing to wear vestments

Question 9

Who arrived in England in 1568?

Answer 9

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 10

When did the Northern Rebellion Take place?

Answer 10

1569

Question 11

What did the Papal Bull do?

Answer 11

Excommunicated Elizabeth

Question 12

Who were the puritans?

Answer 12

Extreme Protestants

Question 13

Name a Puritan and Catholic challenge that took place in 1571

Answer 13

The Ridolfi Plot/Strickland’s reformation attempt

Question 14

Name two radical Puritans

Answer 14

John Foxe/Thomas Sampson

Question 15

What was Filed and Wilcox’s “Admonition to Parliament”?

Answer 15

A warning to Parliament to eliminate to catholic parts from the church, get rid of bishops

Question 16

Who were Wentworth, Turner and Cope?

Answer 16

Challenging Protestants

Question 17

Who was Throckmorton?

Answer 17

Main conspirator in the Throckmorton Plot to assassinate Elizabeth

Question 18

What were Whitgift’s Three Articles?

Answer 18

Reinforced the 1559 Religious Settlement and clergymen who did not agree were dismissed from their posts.

Question 19

When did the Babbington Plot take place?

Answer 19

1586

Question 20

Seminary Priests arrived in 1574: Who were they?

Answer 20

Seminary Priests are Catholic Priests who were trained in English seminaries or houses of study on the european continent after the introduction of laws forbidding Catholicism in Britain

Question 21

When was Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 21

1587

Question 22

When did Philip II invade England?

Answer 22

1588

Question 23

What three things happened in 1583?

Answer 23

Elizabeth excommunicated by Pope
Throckmorton plot
Whitgift Archbishop

Question 24

Who did England go to war with from 1585?

Answer 24

Spain

Question 25

What were the Marprelate Tracts of 1588?

Answer 25

Pamphlets which criticised the role of Bishops, along with other criticisms of Elizabeth’s government and puritan complaints

Question 26

What did parliament argue about in 1589?

Answer 26

Purveyance

Question 27

In what year was there both a Catholic and Protestant attack?

Answer 27

1571
Protestant attack = Strickland wanted a more protestant prayer book
Catholic = Ridolfi

Question 28

Who became Lord Treasurer 1572?

Answer 28

William Cecil

Question 29

In what year did the first Seminary Priest arrive in England?

Answer 29

1574

Question 30

Who became Archbishop in 1575?

Answer 30

Grindal

Question 31

What was the Admonition to Parliament in 1572?

Answer 31

Calling for church hierarchy to be replaced

Question 32

In what year did the Protestant attack on Bishop authority take place?

Answer 32

1584

Question 33

Which Protestant spoke out in favour of freedom of speech I 1576?

Answer 33

Wentworth

Question 34

When was the first catholic executed?

Answer 34

1577