Elizabeth's religious settlement

Question 1

What were the 2 key aspects of the religious settlement?

Answer 1

• the legal status of the church

- the liturgical books to be used in church services

Question 2

What were the 3 options of the religion Elizabeth could have taken?

Answer 2

• Anglo-Church where doctrine remained but rejected papal authority
• moderate Protestant Church as implied by the Act of Uniformity 1549
• a radically evangelical Church as implied by the Act of Uniformity 1552

Question 3

What year were the thirty nine articles published and then made law?

Answer 3

1563 and then 1571

Question 4

What was the Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity made law?

Answer 4

1559

Question 5

What did the Act of Supremacy do?

Answer 5

this restored in law the royal supremacy in the Church which had been established under Henry VIII and then removed under Queen Mary.

Question 6

Which act revived the powers of royal visitation as enjoyed by Henry VIII and allowed the Crown to appoint commissioners to conduct these visits?

Answer 6

Act of Supremacy

Question 7

How did the Act of Supremacy label Elizabeth?

Answer 7

as Supreme Governor rather than Supreme Head of the Church

Question 8

Under what act were the clergy and church officials forced to oath or face penalties for failing to do so?

Answer 8

Act of Supremacy

Question 9

Why were many Marian bishops deprived of their post?

Answer 9

as they failed to take an oath of supremacy under the Act of Supremacy

Question 10

What was the purpose of the Act of Uniformity?

Answer 10

this Act specified the use of a modified single Book of Common Prayer introduced by Cramner in 1552

Question 11

What were the 2 modifications of the Book of Common Prayer introduced by Cramner in 1552 and used in the Act of Uniformity in 1559?

Answer 11

• variations in Eucharistic belief were possible which incorporated wording from 1549 which Bishop Gardiner could accept as well as the 1552 wording which derived from the beliefs of Zwingli
• the Black Rubric included in the 1552 Prayer Book which explained away the practise of kneeling for the Eucharist was omitted

Question 12

What did the Act of Uniformity 1559 state about clerical dress?

Answer 12

that such ornaments of the church should be in place as in the second year of reign under Edward, before the Act of Uniformity 1549.

Question 13

Why would the issue of the clerical dress which was addressed in the Act of Uniformity 1559 an issue for Elizabeth?

Answer 13

as many Calvinist clergy saw the ‘ornaments’ as ‘Popish’ and therefore strongly objected to them

Question 14

What were the royal injunctions of 1559?

Answer 14

They were a set of instructions about the conduct of the church services and government of the Church

Question 15

What other 3 years were royal injunctions used prior to 1559?

Answer 15

1536, 1538 and 1547

Question 16

Why were royal injunctions used in 1536, 1538 and 1547?

Answer 16

as a mechanism for the Crown to impose its will in relation to church practices

Question 17

What did the first royal injunction make clear in 1559?

Answer 17

that the religion in England was Protestant

Question 18

What did the Royal Injunctions demand in regards to communion?

Answer 18

that the Eucharist be administered at a simple communion table rather than at the alter

Question 19

under the 1559 royal injunctions churches were required to purchase an English bible which reasserted the royal injunctions from what year?

Answer 19

1538

Question 20

What were churches required to purchase as of the royal injunctions of 1559?

Answer 20

an English bible and a copy of Erasmus’s Paraphrases,

Question 21

In what year was Erasmus’s Paraphrases required for churches to purchase?

Answer 21

1547

Question 22

What religion were the visitors nominated by Cecil to enforce the injunctions?

Answer 22

strongly Protestant

Question 23

What is an example of one of Elizabeth’s personal idiosyncrasies?

Answer 23

her disapproval of clerical marriage which was signalled but the fact that prospective wives of clergy had to produce a certificate signed by two justices of the peace signifying their fitness for such a role.

Question 24

What was the Puritan Choir?

Answer 24

the allies of radical clergymen in the HOC which is a dominant interpretation put forward by John Neale in 1950. He believed that Elizabeth was had to back down and accept a much more Protestant prayer book and settlement than she really had wanted

Question 25

What book did Norman Jones state that elizabeth and her ministers wanted a complete religious settlement and faced political opposition from Catholic bishops and conservative peers in the HOL not the Puritan Choir?

Answer 25

Faith by Statute