Elizabeth & Religion

Question 1

What was the Vestments Controversy 1566?

Answer 1

• Puritan challenge over what vestments were acceptable.
• Resolved by Parker issuing the Advertisements.

Question 2

What did Strickland do in 1571?

Answer 2

Tried to issue a bill in Parliament which proposed changes to the Prayer Book.

Question 3

What did Anthony Cope issue in 1587?

Answer 3

The “Book and Bill”.

Question 4

What were the Separatists?

Answer 4

Puritans who wanted to establish their own Church.

Question 5

What was the Act of Seditious Sectaries 1593?

Answer 5

Enabled radical Puritans to be executed.

Question 6

Who was executed under the Act of Seditious Sectaries?

Answer 6

Barrow and Greenwood.

Question 7

What were the Three Articles?

Answer 7

Whitgift’s questionnaire which identified Puritans.

Question 8

Name Elizabeth’s three Archbishops of Canterbury.

Answer 8

• Parker
• Grindal
• Whitgift

Question 9

What were the Marprelate Tracts?

Answer 9

Semi-pornographic book. Seen as damaging to the Puritans.

Question 10

Did Elizabeth deal well with the Puritans?

Answer 10

• Benefited from Parker and Whitgift’s actions against the Puritans.
• Parliament refused to vote on Puritan Bills.
• Some of Elizabeth’s advisers like Leicester supported the Puritans.
• Faced multiple challenges through Parliament.

Question 11

How successful were the Puritans?

Answer 11

• No uniformity of ideas
• Lacked central leader.
• Some support by leading councillors.
• Regular challenges through Parliament.

Question 12

Who were the Marian Exiles?

Answer 12

• Returning Protestants who had been in the Continent during Mary’s reign.
• Some were more radical.

Question 13

What were Elizabeth’s Religious Laws known as?

Answer 13

The Religious Settlement

Question 14

What was the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 14

• Elizabeth was made supreme governor of the Church.
• People were required to take an oath of supremacy to Elizabeth.
• Repealed the heresy laws.

Question 15

What was the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 15

• Introduced the 1552 Prayer Book.
• Made Church attendance compulsory.
• Communion was available in both kinds.

Question 16

What did the Royal Injunctions state?

Answer 16

• Requirement that the clergy wear vestments.
• Encourage music in Church.
• Congregation encouraged to bow at Jesus’ name.

Question 17

When did Mary Queen of Scots arrive in England?

Answer 17

1568

Question 18

What was the York Conference?

Answer 18

An unofficial trial into Mary Queen of Scots’ guilt. It led to her imprisonment.

Question 19

Name one rebellion that Mary Queen of Scots was involved in?

Answer 19

• Ridolfi 1571
• Throckmorton 1583
• Babington 1586

Question 20

When was Mary Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 20

1587

Question 21

How much of a threat was Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth?

Answer 21

• Linked to the French and Spanish royal families
• Seen as the rightful heir by some Catholics
• Many plots were not realistic (especially Babington)
• Not all Catholics supported Mary, tainted by her husband’s murder.

Question 22

When was the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 22

1569

Question 23

Name one noble involved in the Northern Rebellion?

Answer 23

• Westmoreland
• Northumberland
• Norfolk

Question 24

What were the Church Papists?

Answer 24

Catholics who would attend Church.

Question 25

What were the Recusants?

Answer 25

Catholics who refused to attend Church. They were fined. In 1581 the government increased the fine to £20

Question 26

What laws did Elizabeth introduce against the Catholics?

Answer 26

• Treason Act - illegal to own objects like Agnes Dei and Papal Bill.
• 1580 Act of Persuasion - illegal to convert someone.
• 1585 Act Against Jesuits, Seminary Priests and other Disobedient Peoples.

Question 27

Who were the Seminary Priests?

Answer 27

• Arrived from 1584
• Many trained in Douai under William Allen
• Accepted that some Catholics would need to continue attending Church.

Question 28

Who were the Jesuits?

Answer 28

• Arrived after 1580
• Far more radical than the Seminary Priests.

Question 29

What percentage of the population does Bossy estimate was Catholic in 1603?

Answer 29

1%- estimated to be 80% in 1558.

Question 30

How was Elizabeth able to overcome the Catholic threat?

Answer 30

• Length of Elizabeth’s reign
• Laws passed by Parliament
• Catholicism increasingly linked to France and Spain.