Essays Henry 8 part 2

Question 1

Why Cromwell Fell from Power

Answer 1

Heresy
Foreign Situation
Factional Politics

Question 2

Why were monasteries dissolved

Answer 2

Religious Moral Motivations - Condition of them
Financial Motivations
Religious Loyalty - Central in Opposition, allegence to Pope

Question 3

Was Henry manipulated by the factions in 1540?

Answer 3

1540-42: Cromwell and Catherine Howard
1543: Cranmer and Catherine Parr
1544-47: Reformers v. Conservatives
Privy Chamber v. Privy Councillors
Warfare throughout possibly
–> Wims, personal aims v. Strategic thought

Question 4

How effectively did Henry rule England in the 1540’s?

Answer 4

Foreign policy
Factional politics
Securing the succession

Question 5

Opposition to the Reformation

Answer 5

Pilgrimage of Grace, Robert Ask
Thomas More 
John Fisher 
Elizabeth Barton
Carthusians and Franciscans

Question 6

How Protestant was ENG by the Fall of Cromwell

Answer 6

Legislation up to 1540

Question 7

Reasons for Religious Change

Answer 7

1) True Doctrinal Change, anticlericalism
2) Greed
3) Greater Influence over the Church
4) Divorce

Question 8

How Radical were Religious Changes between 1529- 1547?

Answer 8

1) 1529-1534
2) Late 1530’s
3) 1539-43
4) 1544-47

Question 9

How far was the Church in need of Reform 1520’s

Answer 9

1) Church Leaders and Clergy
2) Local Level + Impact of Lutheranism and Lollardy
3) Religious Institutions
4) Religious Doctrine

Question 10

How far ENG Protestant on the Death of Henry VIII

Answer 10

1) Doctrinal and Legal Changes
2) Example of Henry, the monarchs view and influence of factions
3) Support/ Opposition on a local scale

Question 11

How Successful was Henry’s Foreign Policy in the 1540’s?

Answer 11

Glory

Neutralisation of Scotland

End of Isolation

National Security