HENRY VIII: CROMWELL & REFORMATION

Question 1

What were Henry’s motives generally, for the break with Rome?

Answer 1

Much more political, and personal, than religious.

Question 2

What did the English Reformation do overall?

Answer 2

Put the Church firmly under the control of the State.

Question 3

What was legislation in the period of 1529-36 designed to do?

Answer 3

Put pressure on the church and prevent it from opposing Henry’s desire for a divorce.

Question 4

What did pressure on the Pope do?

Answer 4

Very little. Limited impact.

Question 5

What is an evaluation of the Reformation in terms of the general population?

Answer 5

Although there were large changes, ordinary people would have noticed little change.

Question 6

What Act of Parliament was passed in 1531?

Answer 6

The Pardon of the Clergy.

Question 7

What three acts of parliament were passed in 1532?

Answer 7

• Supplication against the Ordinaries.
• Submission of the Clergy.
• The Act in Restraint of Annates.

Question 8

What Act of Parliament was passed in 1533?

Answer 8

The Act in restraint of Appeals.

Question 8

What Act of Parliament was passed in 1533?

Answer 8

The Act in restraint of Appeals.

Question 9

What Act of Parliament was passed in 1534?

Answer 9

The Act of Supremacy.

Question 10

What Act of Parliament was passed in 1536?

Answer 10

Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome.

Question 11

What did the Pardon of the Clergy do?

Answer 11

Convocation agreed to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church if a clause was added: ‘as far as the law of Christ allows.’

Question 12

What was the Supplication of the Ordinaries?

Answer 12

A petition which attacked the Church and claimed it was full of corruption.
Challenged the Church’s right to have its own courts and laws.

Question 13

What did the Submission of the Clergy do?

Answer 13

Made the Church surrender its right to make ecclesiastical laws.
Promised not to issue new laws without royal licence.

Question 14

Why was the Act of Supremacy so revolutionary?

Answer 14

Made Henry the Supreme Head of the Church.

Sought to re-establish the king’s territories as a ‘sovereign empire’.

Question 15

What was Cromwell appointed as in January 1535?

Answer 15

Vicegerent.

Question 16

What did the Act Extinguishing the Authority of the Bishop of Rome do?

Answer 16

Part of the extinction of papal power.

The Pope could not use his title in England.

Question 17

What was the overall result of the Reformation between 1536 and 1539?

Answer 17

An attack on traditional Catholic practices.

Question 18

What year did Cromwell fall?

Answer 18

1540.

Question 19

Who directed religious policy after Cromwell fell from power?

Answer 19

Henry.

Question 20

What legislation was passed in 1536? What did this do?

Answer 20

The Ten Articles - rejected four of the seven sacraments.

Question 21

What else was passed in 1536? What did this do?

Answer 21

Injunctions. Attacked pilgrimages.

Question 22

What book was established in 1537?

Answer 22

The Bishops’ Book (King’s Book) which reduced the importance of mass and purgatory.

Question 23

What did the other set of injunctions passed in 1538 do?

Answer 23

Ordered an English Bible in parishes, discouraged pilgrimages and ordered removal of relics.

Question 24

What year was the Act of Six Articles passed? What did it do?

Answer 24

1539.

Confirmed transubstantiation and forbade communion of both kinds.

Question 25

What Act of Parliament was revolutionarily passed in 1534?

Answer 25

Treason Act.

Question 26

When did the Pope refuse Henry’s appeal for a divorce?

Answer 26

1534, which was when he passed the Act of Supremacy.