Elizabeth - religious changes Flashcards
What did the ‘Device for the Alteration of Religion’ say? (probably written by William Cecil)
- outspoken Protestants in East Anglia didn’t represent the whole country
- majority of laity desired Catholic rites of worship - rituals that had given structure to their lives - not committed to Pope
What does Neale believe Elizabeth wanted in her settlement?
- more moderate
- more conservative because England was at war and she didn’t wish to offend powerful Catholics (revolt?) or abroad (Philip II)
Why does Neale believe Elizabeth’s settlement came out more Protestant than she intended?
- well-organised and influential nucleus of Puritans (eg. John Cheke and William Cecil)
Where do revisionist historians believe the main opposition came from?
- Catholic bishops in House of Lords
What was the intention of the Bills of Uniformity?
- break with Rome again
- establish uniform patterns of doctrine and liturgy
Why did the House of Lords not pass the Bills of Uniformity?
- Bishop Scot of Chester explains…
- Parliament had no right to determine Church doctrine, only clergy
- had learnt that if they made small concessions eg. 1532 Submission of the Clergy - it could have eventual massive ramifications
- bills rejected transubstantiation
How did Elizabeth defend her Bills of Uniformity? (she could afford to do this because she had made her peace with France in C-C so she didn’t have to worry about Philip) What happened?
- set up debate between Protestants and Catholics
- Protestants attacked Pope, use of Latin, the spiritual value of the mass
- Catholics made strategic mistake and withdrew, Elizabeth seized opportunity and imprisoned two Marian bishops, reducing number of Catholic bishops in House of Lords
What did the Act of Supremacy do?
- ‘Supreme Governor’
Why did she take the title ‘Supreme Governor’ instead of Supreme Head?
- to avoid a rebellion of John Knox and Knoxians as she was a female and he had written ‘The First Blast of the trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of women’
- additionally, Knox didn’t agree with state-controlled Church - ‘governor’ appears to place more control into individuals hands
- moderate compromise as Catholics could see her as governor and perhaps Pope as true head
What is Haigh’s view on the 1559 Book of Common Prayer?
- it was exactly as Elizabeth wanted, wanted to allow all except most extreme Protestants and Papists to be involved
What stance did the 1559 BofCP take on transubstantiation?
- communion = an act of remembrance AND laity were being given body and blood
- insulting references to Pope were removed from 1552 Prayer Book
- removal of Black Rubric that stated the kneeling was only a formality and did not imply Christ was present - how they could kneel and Catholics were free to believe he was
What was another hark back to the Catholic past?
- wearing of vestments
How did the 1559 Injunctions attack certain Catholic practises? (although it
- forbade pilgrimages
- forbade monuments to ‘supposed miracles’ but not all destroyed
- preaching was to be licensed BUT strict rules, had to have a Master of Arts degree from Oxford/ Cambridge (required 15 sermons per year)
How did Elizabeth ensure that she benefitted financially from the settlement?
- assumed control of First Fruits and Tenths
- 1559: Act of Exchange - gave Liz right to take over property from bishopric see when vacant, also prevented bishops from renting out land for over 21 years other than to her
What was the intention of the Visitations covering the province of Canterbury?
- designed to enforce compliance with 1559 Injunctions (attacked Catholic practises but were still moderate)