Henry VIII and Religion Flashcards
How was the Church before the Reformation?
.Papacy - Small dissent but accepted. 1534 - loyalty lost.
.Religious Orders - Supported but on decline.
.Secular Clergy - Respected but South-East hostile.
.Parish - Many built and donated to/ wills.
.Religious Guilds - Will money - 57% Cornwall and Devon but South-East lack.
.Sacraments/Rituals - Popular except South-East.
.Intercession - Supported.
.Images - some support but criticised pilgrimages and supported iconoclasm.
What changes were there in power/structure 1530-38?
.1530 - Praemunire accusation on clergy.
.1531 - clergy pardoned, Henry the Head of Church.
.1532 - Supplication of Ordinaries and Clergy submission.
.1533 - Act in Restraint.
.1534 - Clergy Submission, Supremacy and Treason.
.1535 - Cromwell Vice-gerent and Fisher/More executed.
.1536 - Royal Injunctions to clergy.
.1537 - Matthew Bible.
.1538 - Royal injunctions.
What changes were there in doctrine 1530-38?
.1530 - Tyndale’s Vernacular Bible burnt.
.1536 - Act of Ten Articles - rejected 7 sacraments.
.1537 - Bishop’s Book - rediscovered 4 lost sacraments.
.1538 - Royal injunctions to clergy - pilgrimages discouraged and relics removed, Lambert executed for rejecting transubstantiation.
What changes were there in Finance 1530-38?
.1531 - £119000 for pardon of clergy.
.1532 - 1st Annate Act - banned pay to Rome.
.1534 - 2nd Annate Act, Act to Stop Peter’s Pence - can’t pay tax to Rome, First Fruits and Tenths - go to King.
.1535 - Valor Eccleasticus - survey.
.1536 - Act of Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries under £200 and gave money to teach children about scripture.
What changes were there in divorce/personal 1530-38?
.1533 - Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome - no matrimonial Pope power.
.1534 - First Succession Act - nulled Catherine marriage and allowed Anne and Barton executed.
.1536 - Anne beheaded and Jane married next day.
.1538 - truce of Nice - fear of invasion and Lamberts shows Henry’s Catholic belief, Paul III excommunicates Henry.
